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Clover Point Park has been a delightful spot for more than six decades: A place to go, no matter what the weather, to marvel at the beauty of the Juan de Fuca Strait, the Olympic Mountains, ships, . . .
Councillors said they were flooded with calls and emails from people lining up on both sides of the issue. The initial proposal from Thomas Soulliere, director of parks, recreation and facilities, recommended permanently closing the loop to cars and creating a parking lot next to it with 17 spaces, including four accessible stalls and a larger drop-off and pick-up zone. That would have resulted in a loss of about 73 parking spaces in the 4.2 hectare park. One of the new options in a report going to council on Thursday is a variation on Soulliere’s original proposal but with additional pa...
There must also be a rigorous business plan made public and critiqued by an independent third party. That didn’t happen a few years ago when a Commonwealth Games bid was floated, rather initial support was garnered in secret around the Capital Regional District table and endorsed without the public weighing in. The province wisely declined to provide financial support and eventually the bid fell apart. Contrary to the pitch by proponents, municipalities and local citizens will most certainly have to fund part of the budget. The pandemic, and now uncertainty around several COVID-19 varia...
Such acts are portrayed as being the result of “group-think” and “intolerance” that should serve as a “warning” to freedom-loving people. If this argument sounds familiar, it’s because it comes straight out of the right-wing talking points we have seen south of the border among apologists for statues, monuments, and place names that honour Confederates, leaders of the Ku Klux Klan, slave-owners, eugenicists, and other white supremacists. As a cultural geographer who has studied the politics of commemoration for nearly two decades, the hypocrisy of these claims never ceases to...
I’m tired of paying for the war on drugs from one pocket and enabling drug use from the other, and if my understanding is correct, “decriminalizing” means that users will still buy drugs illegally, but will have a safe place to use them, and help will be at hand when it turns out they are poisonous. Or users will be supplied with substitutes that they don’t consider strong enough, and will continue to buy and use whatever they can find. That’s dumb. The government should go into the drug business. The basic materials (opium, cocaine, whatever) are dirt cheap at the source. The pr...