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The BC government has announced its intention to kill over 180 wolves in a last-ditch effort to protect endangered caribou herds. The move has been called scientifically unsound, as it fails to consider the real causes of the herd’s decline, as well as whether or not the small number of remaining animals are capable of recovering in the wild. Voices of reason say they can not. Click on the image above for more information. Please consider signing the petition at pacificwild.org
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Tofino’s Climate Strike
I wanted to share a few photos I took today during Tofino’s Climate Strike. For those of you who don’t know, Tofino is located on Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations territory on the west coast of Vancouver Island. It’s where my retro … Continue reading
VIU’s Creative Writing Program: A Graduate’s Review
I enrolled at Vancouver Island University during the summer of 2014. I’d been diagnosed with chemotherapy-caused nerve damage – something I still deal with to this day. I was being medically released from the military and had been offered two … Continue reading
Posted in Vancouver Island, Xtra: News and Reviews
Tagged awards, campus, Creative Writing, dean's list, degree, directed study, disability, electives, field school, First Nations, internship, Nanaimo, SFU, Snuneymuxw, submission package, term paper, UBC, UVic, Vancouver Island University, VIU, workshopping
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Student Mentorship & Paranormal Activity
This Spring, I was asked to mentor a grade eight student who was attending the Waldorf School in Duncan. For those unfamiliar with the Waldorf system of education, it values imagination and creativity, but in a practical way. Since its … Continue reading
Portal Magazine
The Beau Dick: Revolutionary Spirit book review I wrote was published in the 2019 issue of Portal magazine. Even though Beau Dick passed away in 2017, he’s still someone I look up to and admire, both as a visionary artist and as … Continue reading
Why the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Could Be Genocide
An increase in tanker traffic could be the death of the Coast Salish people, not an oil spill. A review of the Coast Salish and Nuu-chah-nulth testimony presented to the National Energy Board of Canada.
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Tagged Amelia Douglas, Burnaby, Burrard Inlet, Coal Tyee, Coast Salish, Federal Court of Appeal, First Nations oral history, Folklore, genocide, Georgia Strait, Governor Douglas, Isabella Ross, Juan de Fuca Strait, Kwantlen, Lummi, Lyackson, Maanulth, Musquem, Nanaimo, NDP, Nuu-chah-nulth, oil industry, oil spill, Olympic Peninsula, oral history, pipeline, Puget Sound, Romeo Saganash, Salish Sea, seattle, Shxw'owhamel, Snuneymuxw, Squamish, Sto:lo Collective, Sto:lo Tribal Council, Stz'uminus, Suquamish, Swinomish, TMX, transmountain, Transmountain Pipeline, Tsartlip, Tsawout, Tsleil-Waututh, Tudeau Government, Tulalip, Vancouver, Vancouver Island, Victoria, Washington State, West Coast, yellow jacket movement, yellow vest, yellow vest movement
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