January/February 2019 edition

Jan-Feb 2019 Focus.pdf

4 VICTORIA’S DIMINISHING URBAN FOREST | Leslie Campbell

Residents are mobilizing to protect one of the City’s greatest natural charms, increasingly threatened by development.

14 SEX, LIES, AND TRIPLE-DELETED EMAILS | David Broadland

An email unearthed by an FOI request raises fresh questions about the Elsner investigation. So do all the deleted emails.

18 ALARMED | Ross Crockford

Downtown residents question the $34-million deal for a new fire hall.

20 ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT RECONSIDERED | Judith Lavoie

BC’s new Environmental Assessment Act needs teeth and scientific certainty to avoid disasters of the past.

22 CLEANBC PLAN NICE ONSCREEN, BUT HAS SERIOUS PROBLEMS | Russ Francis

The BC government’s concerted efforts at message control nearly overwhelm its new climate plan.

24 LOGGING MADNESS CONTINUES | Briony Penn

Nothing has changed in BC forestry practices under the BC NDP government.

26 SENIORS TARGETED WITH HIGH-DOSE FLU VACCINE | Alan Cassels

The government doesn’t pay for it yet, but the pressure from Big Pharma is on.

28 BRIDGE BUILDER SUES CITY FOR BAD DESIGN | David Broadland

The City has always denied the new bridge has any problems, thus limiting its ability to assert itself in legal fights over the project.

30 LIGHT OF DAY | Aaren Madden

Ray Ward’s landscape paintings celebrate the ever-changing skies and moods of the West Coast.

34 THE ART AND LIFE OF ELIZABETH YEEND DUER | Kate Cino

This Anglo-Japanese artist illustrates the fascinating blend of cultural themes at play in the 1940s in Victoria.

48 SPEAKEASY: HOT JAZZ ON BROAD STREET | Mollie Kaye

Your once-sleepy Tuesday nights may never be the same.

52 ON THE PATH OF AN OIL PIPELINE | Monica Prendergast

Bears is a great example of the resurgence of Indigenous theatre in Canada.

54 PATRICIA ROY’S THE COLLECTORS | Stephen Hume

As this historian shows, the Royal BC Museum has proved a resilient, adaptive and unusually far-sighted institution.

58 DOWNTOWN HAS IT ALL-ISH | Gene Miller

Downtown has 1000s of new units, yet it feels unwelcoming to many.

60 BALANCING PROGRESS AND PARKLAND | Maleea Acker

Julian Anderson and Cuthbert Holmes Park.

62 ENVISIONING A PLASTIC-FREE ZONE FOR THE NEW YEAR | Trudy Duivenvoorden Mitic

Victoria is tackling the bags; now let’s move on to single-use plastics.