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The development involved meetings with Indigenous leaders, the First Peoples Cultural Council board and community advisers and the language champions to get their ideas and direction for the exhibit. It meant working with museum staff and FPCC staff. It meant describing one world to the other world, lots of talk and explaining to come to shared ideas. Working through frustrations and misunderstandings. It took the masterful leadership by both Lohman and Tracey Herbert at FPCC to make the Living Languages a success; it was the first of its kind in North America. This as an example; there a...

Victoria city council asked staff Thursday to revise a controversial plan to close the paved loop at the southern tip of Clover Point Park and create a pedestrian-only zone with lounge chairs, food. . .

Fort Royal Medical building and Rod of Asclepius. Via Google Street View Plutos restaurant at the corner of View and Cook streets in Victoria. [Adrian Lam, Times Colonist, Feb. 8, 2021] Medical sculpture’s loss was unnecessary When news of the destruction of the Rod of Asclepius sculpture on the side of the Fort Royal Medical building was posted on social media, the response was significant, quick and passionate. About 200 posts poured in expressing outrage and disappointment that the sculpture, a neighbourhood landmark for more than 50 years, had been treated in such a disrespectful fa...

Victoria city council asked staff Thursday to revise a controversial plan to close the paved loop at the southern tip of Clover Point Park and create a pedestrian-only zone with lounge chairs, food. . .

And what about the picnickers? Will they lug their picnic baskets and paraphernalia down and back again? Go ahead and install picnic tables and benches for those fair-weather days when they can be used, let some food trucks set up and see if the location proves to be viable, but leave the road and parking spaces as they are. City hall’s plan for Clover Point is just the latest proof of the fact that we are paying too many people too much money to daydream impractical notions and doodle fanciful illustrations of them. Perhaps we should rid the bloated city hall bureaucracy of these “dr...