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VANCOUVER 2016/2017 Offi cial Visitors’ Guide FRESH NEW concept, with 30+ pages of authentic content, including in uencer- curated and insider-recommended experiences and information, in collaboration with the creators of BCLiving.ca. • OFFICIAL GUIDE for visitors and the essential and only guide many visitors see • ON THE GROUND distribution to in-market visitors, and travellers planning a visit • LISTS, MAPS and ITINERARIES to must-see, must-do, must-have experiences • KEY INFORMATION including maps, logistics, heritage and culture, festivals and events • UNIQUE OPPORTUNITES from cover exposure to your own custom content • PLUS complimentary listings for Tourism Vancouver members PRINT RATES Full page $7,180 Outside back cover $9,000 2/3 page $5,708 Inside back cover $8,560 1/2 page $4,236 Inside front cover $8,440 1/3 page $3,656 Front cover* $24,995 1/6 page $1,836 *Image only to be featured on cover subject to approval. All rates shown in net Canadian dollars. Premium positioning $500 ADVERTSISING DEADLINES SPACE CLOSE MATERIAL DUE PUBLICATION DATE March 8 March 22 May 15 ANNUAL CIRCULATION: 150,000 READERSHIP*: 500,000 FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT: CAM MCDONALD 604-473-0394 [email protected] 230, 4321 Still Creek Drive, Burnaby BC V5C 6S7 604.299.7311 | canadawide.com UNIQUE MARKETING OPPORTUNITIES OFFICIALThe VISITORS’ Appear on the cover* GUIDE Select opportunities available to tourism partners who dream of having their destination or offering seen rst. 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    2 BC BOOKWORLD SPRING 2011 awards STANDING UP FOR SCIENCE eligion won’t save us. Or politics. R Or business. According to David Suzuki, the 74-year-old environmentalist who re- ceived the 18th annual George Wood- cock Lifetime Achievement Award in February, it all comes down to science. If politicians had listened to Suzuki and other scientific-minded futurists about thirty years ago, Kyoto Protocol standards would have been achievable. Now Suzuki still clings to a “very slen- der thread” of hope. The human race can still endure, IF we immediately en- act rational strategies. “Science is by far the most important factor for shaping our lives and society today… (but) decisions are made for po- litical expediency,” he says. “What’s hap- pening now is absolutely terrifying.” Suzuki recalled the advice of 300 cli- matologists who met in Toronto in the 1970s and identified global warming as the greatest threat to human survival, next to atomic bombs. “(But) the fossil fuel industry, the auto sector and neo- conservatives like the Koch brothers in Margaret Atwood New York began to invest tens of mil- presents this year’s George lions of dollars in a campaign of decep- Woodcock Award to tion,” Suzuki said. “You can find the best scientist and educator evidence of this in Jim Hoggan’s book, David Suzuki, at the Fairmont Climate Cover-Up, and in Nancy Hotel Vancouver. “We are Oreskes’ Merchants of Doubt.” going backwords,” he PHOTOGRAPHY D “Now we have public opinion on warned the audience. these issues driven by organizations like WENDY The Fraser Institute, the Heartland In- stitute, the Competitive Enterprise In- Campbell with a set of leather bound stitute.