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VICTORIA Premier John Horgan gained some leverage this week over an old-growth logging protest that has been festering for months in his political backyard.
The battleground is Fairy Creek, a heavily forested watershed near Port Renfrew in the premier’s Langford-Juan de Fuca riding.
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The Teal-Jones logging group has been prevented from exercising its timber cutting-rights in the area since protesters set up a blockade in August. They have refused to budge, despite a recent court injunction.
The Globe and Mail Adam Bisby Published April 13, 2021
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Having received his COVID-19 vaccine, Clayton Outwater did what he’d been wanting to do since the start of the pandemic: He booked a Caribbean cruise.
The week-long Norwegian Cruise Line voyage isn’t slated to depart New Orleans until Jan. 23, 2022, but Outwater, 81, hopes the Canadian government will ease international travel restrictions long before then.
“I’ve got until Sept. 25 to cancel and get my money back or rebook,” the Hamilton resident says. His trip hinges on the lifting of rules that require all returning travellers to quarantine for a minimum of 14 days, starting with a mandatory three-night prepaid booking at a government-authorized hotel. “I love cruises, but not that much,” he adds.
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We are not to be found in the virtual racks of Best Beach Holiday Destinations.
This, like most sweeping generalizations, does not tell the whole story, however.
Canada has a bumper crop of beaches, if not the climate to enjoy them year-round, and the coronavirus that has clobbered those Caribbean sun plans is poised to give our oft-neglected shorelines their moment in the sun.
With some 250,000 km of coastline, it’s a geographic given that this country will have beaches worth boasting about.
Here a few worth investigating:
British Columbia’s wild west coast off Vancouver Island is raved about by surfers and nature worshippers for good reason. At the 49,000-hectare Pacific Rim National Park, Long Beach unspools 16 kilometres of lush foreshore between the communities of Ucluelet and Tofino and is renowned for its pounding waves and centuries-old First Nations heritage. You can spend entire days here walking the largely isolated beaches.