Reading Time: 4 minutes Falling asleep with bat gear ready, you don’t know what to expect. You just have that Boy Scout sense that you’re prepared
Tag: BC Life
Adrift and perilously close to abandoning ship
Reading Time: 4 minutes After more than a little high-seas misadventure, the Frankie finally proves seaworthy – and sanitary
Keeping a father and son tradition afloat
Reading Time: 4 minutes Putting the Frankie back in the water signals the coming of summer adventures. But first we must perform the ritual launch dance
Powell River celebrates its progressive roots
Reading Time: 4 minutes Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring to be performed at PRISMA. In 1913, the ballet caused a riot in Paris and unleashed a mad torrent of modernity on the members of Parisienne high society
Spring surprises at Skelhp: red tide and Cuddles
Reading Time: 4 minutes Fir pollen on the water (perhaps), black bears on the prowl. All part of a spring visit to Skelhp
My fireplace just helped renew my faith in humanity
Reading Time: 3 minutes A household calamity, an accommodating retailer, some dirty and hard work, and a twofold payoff at the end
Vancouver stories that resonate far and wide
Reading Time: 3 minutes The coastal city is uniquely placed, by geography and patterns of global investment, to bear intelligent witness to international currents
Spring arrives at Skelhp and the wildlife parade follows
Reading Time: 3 minutes Orcas, otters, a majestic eagle, a marauding racoon and a diminishing deer family all herald the changing of seasons on the coast
How B.C. can escape its painful housing trap
Reading Time: 3 minutes Instead of targeting affordable housing, B.C. government should be targeting housing affordability
A new wave of B.C. small-town cultural renaissance
Reading Time: 4 minutes Let’s be honest, most of B.C.’s artistic community has always lived on the Gulf Islands, on Vancouver Island, up the Sunshine Coast, in Haida Gwaii rather than in Vancouver