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Greater Victoria's Common Vision For Social & Ecological Change

Greater Victoria’s Common Vision For Social & Ecological Change

By Roy L Hales

According to Paul Cheoketen Wagner colonial society has ruled over this land for the blink of an eye and brought it to the precipice of a climate that is ready to collapse. That’s because we, “have not paid attention to natural law.”  We need to step back and take a look at how we can govern a place that holds regard for every aspect of [life]. For a government that only seeks to…

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Union of BC Municipalities opposes logging Vancouver Island's Old Growth

Union of BC Municipalities opposes logging Vancouver Island’s Old Growth

The ECOreport reposts yet another story of local government sticking up for the people, Union of BC Municipalities opposes logging Vancouver Island’s Old Growth

Press Release from the Wilderness Committee

VICTORIA – Yesterday afternoon, mayors and councillors from across BC passed a motion to formally oppose old-growth logging on Vancouver Island.

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Victoria's Housing First Strategy

Victoria’s Housing First Strategy

Originally Published on Ben Isis’s website

By Ben Isitt

Controversy over the possibility of a designated temporary tenting area in the City of Victoria has prompted a healthy dialogue over how best to respond to the homelessness emergency in our region.

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Victoria Is Against logging the Walbran Valley

Victoria Is Against logging the Walbran Valley

The City Victoria Is Against logging the Walbran Valley

Press Release From the Wilderness Committee

Environmental activists are congratulating the City of Victoria for passing a motion against controversial logging in the central Walbran Valley, a nationally significant old-growth forest outside Victoria. A motion passed last night by City Council asks Mayor Lisa Helps to write to BC’s Minister…

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BC Indian Chiefs passed a resolution in support of Grace Islet

BC Indian Chiefs passed a resolution in support of Grace Islet

By Roy L Hales

As you can hear in the video below, the Union of BC Indian Chiefs passed a resolution in support of Grace Islet Burial site. Grand Chief Stewart Phillip made the announcement at a demonstration at the provincial legislature, in Victoria, yesterday. He said the vote was unanimous.

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Some Might Call it Trespassing (Video)

Some Might Call it Trespassing (Video)

By Roy L Hales

Some might call it trespassing. Others will ask who was trespassing? The 38 people who landed on Grace Islet today? The government that sold a First Nations burial ground without consulting with the previous owners? Or the Alberta businessman who purchased this islet and, fully aware that it is a burial islet,  is now erecting a house there?

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