March/April 2018 Edition

Volume 30 Number 4

March-April 2018 Focus.pdf

4 Leslie Campbell | MATH AND ETHICS ARGUE AGAINST TRANS MOUNTAIN

If we’re going to lower emissions, allowing Alberta to increase fossil-fuel-related exports will harm the rest of Canada.

12 Mary-Wynne Ashford | ONE NUCLEAR BOMB IS TOO MANY

Addressing the generational gap in understanding around nuclear disarmament.

14 David Broadland | WHY ARE CITY COUNCILLORS ACCEPTING A WORLD-CLASS BODGE?

The City is refusing to provide records that would show who knew what, and when they knew it.

18 Leslie Campbell | DEVELOPMENT BESIDE GONZALES HILL PARK RAISES ALARM

Is the CRD failing to steward its only regional park in the core of the city?

22 Alan Cassels | “DRUG HOLIDAYS” AND DEPRESCRIBING

The growing movement to wind back excess medication.

24 Briony Penn | DID SAANICH’S EDPA POSE A THREAT TO PROPERTY VALUES?

Was a real battle fought over an invented crisis?

28 Judith Lavoie | SHOULD FARMLAND BE RESERVED FOR FOOD GROWING?

Marijuana greenhouses, wineries and monster houses are eroding BC’s already limited capacity to feed itself.

30 Pamela Roth | ARE THE CITY OF VICTORIA’S MARIJUANA REGULATIONS WORKING?

And what will happen next summer when recreational cannabis becomes legal in Canada?

32 Aaren Madden | FORM AS MEANING(S)

Four First Nations curators bring new perspectives to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria’s Pacific Northwest prints collection.

45 Mollie Kaye | Dana Statham

Painter circumnavigates Vancouver Island.

48 Mollie Kaye | PLAYS WITH PURPOSE AND MEANING

Zelda Dean sees theatre as a way to break down barriers.

52 Mollie Kaye | ORCHESTRATING A LIFE

Conductor Yariv Aloni lands, learns, and leads in Victoria.

54 Monica Prendergast | NOT IN OUR SPACE

Harassment, bullying and theatre culture.

56 Amy Reiswig | THE STRENGTH IN VULNERABILITY

Claire Sicherman delves into the silent stories of her family’s traumatic past.

58 Gene Miller | AMALGACIDE

Is the call for political amalgamation of CRD municipalities, at its core, motivated by toxic social impulses?

60 Maleea Acker | LOOKING AT THE TINY THINGS

Mary Haig-Brown wants us to see vital connections in the natural world.

62 Trudy Duivenvoorden Mitic | WE DESERVE EVERYTHING WE’RE GOING TO GET

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