What is being written is a push pull of personal experiences and readings over the past 5 decades. Most recent impressions come from an 80 day road trip across Canada, currently stopping throughout Nova Scotia, since mid-May 2022.
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In the three years since they hired Bruno Pereira, Qathen Xwegus Management Corporation (QXMC) has purchased the Klahoose Wilderness Resort, Gorge Harbour Marina, a water taxi, a piece of ocean front property for a combined campsite/RV park and entered into the seaweed farm business. They intend to add another 20 rental units, a larger store and gas station at the Gorge. QXMC is also contemplating a hydroponic vegetable farm and electrifying their land transport fleet.
Continue reading The vision behind Qathen Xwegus Management CorporationBy Moira Wyton, The Tyee, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
British Columbia will drop its major remaining COVID-19 protective measures Friday despite modelling suggesting a sixth wave could send 100 new people to hospital each day by mid-May.
Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry also said today that second booster shots will be available to older and vulnerable people to boost waning immunity.
Continue reading BC Cuts COVID Restrictions. Critics Say It’s DangerousBy Natasha Bulowski, Canada’s National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Five new reports bring human health to the forefront of the climate mitigation conversation in an attempt to empower communities and decision-makers to consider local impacts when deciding on low-carbon infrastructure.
“It’s really an effort to advance the discussions and look at how infrastructure has not only the benefit of reducing emissions, but really improving community health,” said Aline Coutinho, a research associate with the Smart Prosperity Institute who authored two of the reports.
Continue reading No one size fits all when it comes to building healthier and greener communities
By Jake Cardinal, Alberta Native News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
(ANNews) – A class-action lawsuit has been filed in B.C. seeking reparations for the province’s birth alert practice that disproportionally affected hundreds of Indigenous and other racialized peoples.
Continue reading Indigenous lawsuit seeks damages from B.C. for disproportionate birth alerts
