(This Letter was sent to the Times Colonist on November 7 2025) Dear Editor, 140 years ago today (November 7th, 2025) the last spike was driven near Revelstoke BC, completing what is now known as the Canadian Pacific Kansas City railway. It took just 4 years for government and private railway tycoons to complete that …
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In Memoriam – Ellen Frood
Last week we lost, most suddenly, Ellen Frood. I had the pleasure and honour to work with Ellen from 2018 to 2024 on the Board of Sage Haven (formerly ACAWS), a service provider for people fleeing domestic violence in Port Alberni. The only picture of the two of us together that I can find is …
Press Freedom is not Negotiable – A Rewrite under Protest
(This letter was submitted to the Alberni Valley News on October 16, 2025) Dear Editor, I am a little stunned. This week, a vice president of Carpenter Media, the new American owner of the Alberni Valley News and other former Black Press papers, contacted me about a letter submitted a week earlier but not published. …
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