Reading Time: 4 minutes When Capt. James Cook first arrived in this region, the Mowachaht were also surprised that the white men lived without women. “How was that, people wondered?”
Category: Eye on BC
Paddling along B.C’s outer edge
Reading Time: 4 minutes Nuchatlitz offers a shallow lagoon system, dotted with islands, encircled by rocks and pinnacles with names like Danger Rock, Nuchatlitz Reef and Blind Reef
B.C. Greens should support Site C dam, for all British Columbians
Reading Time: 3 minutes Aboriginal rights are extremely important but, like any Charter right, they’re not absolute. They must be balanced against other competing critical interests
Small Green Party may wield big power in B.C
Reading Time: 3 minutes Voters of smaller parties are empowered disproportionately in minority governments, at the expense of the majority of voters, who tend to vote for a main party
Reliving our past, aboard kayaks
Reading Time: 4 minutes We’re heading out on a lengthy kayaking expedition once again, 20 years after our paddles last broke water and we slept under canvas on a remote beach
Private health care isn’t the problem, it’s part of the solution
Reading Time: 3 minutes While some patients may be able to wait for treatment without suffering adverse consequences, many others may be in pain, unable to work or live full lives
The shift away from public schools in B.C.
Reading Time: 3 minutes B.C. policy-makers would be wise to take note that independent school enrolment is increasing and public school numbers are down
A B.C. coastal community orchestrates a new role in the global economy
Reading Time: 4 minutes Powell River’s PRISMA on the Beach is part of a global movement of summer music festivals in towns that love to organize, fundraise and volunteer for the arts
How will B.C.’s NDP pay for deal with Greens?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Will a Horgan-led government keep the NDP’s election promise to balance the budget and, if so, how in the face of Green-driven spending plans?
How an NDP-Green government can free up B.C.’s housing supply
Reading Time: 3 minutes If housing affordability for average British Columbians is the goal, local and provincial governments should reduce barriers to development