Optimism: Numbers show potential big growth in Port Alberni population.

I’m a geek, as you already know from posts like this, and I also like numbers and spreadsheets, as you know from posts like this. 🙂 So of course I perked up when I saw this tweet from the CivicInfo feed at @BCHeadlines. https://twitter.com/BCHeadlines/status/1230536750168076288 BC Stats are interesting because they fill in the 5 year …

Yup, First Nations should have a veto.

There has to be a ‘Get to No’. Addendum: A day later I read this piece in Maclean’s. I highly recommended reading it…. before or after you read my opinion, of course. 🙂 https://twitter.com/chrisalecanada/status/1228703780776005634?s=21 As the protests and blockades in support of the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs opposed to the TC Energy Coastal Gas Link pipeline …

In Memory of Keith

I found out yesterday about the passing of Keith Hunter. He suffered from COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease). In the growing span of my own lifetime, I only knew him for a short time, but his impact on me, and on this community, was significant. I will cherish the many many conversations we had and …