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Photo: Henny Schnare, henny.ca Zucchini Racers at the Galiano Community Picnic in September. Gulf Islands will soon join modern grid Green candidate for Vic federal by-election? Sara Miles University of Victoria law professor Donald before that. In the 2011 Canadian General BC Hydro plans to finish the smart meter Technology (CST), is diagnosed with EHS. She Galloway announced in September that he will Election, the Green candidate garnered 11.6% installation by the end of this year. To date, just lives away from the city in a ‘wired’ home–none seek the candidacy for of the riding’s vote, or about 7,000 votes. over 1,640,000 meters have been installed in of her connections are wireless. St Clair the forthcoming by-election in the federal ‘This by-election is about one thing and one BC. The total customer base is almost attributes her illness to overexposure; she and riding of Victoria. Galloway is an outspoken thing only–how can we best hold this 1.9 million. Installation dates for the Gulf her husband were early cellular phone advocate of refugee and immigrant rights in government to account? Its policies ignore Islands, the last deployment area, will be adopters who had a cellphone company in the Canada and has worked as a professor of law scientific evidence, in Parliament they scoff at announced shortly via customer letters and 1980s. She now experiences dizziness, for over 20 years in Victoria. the democratic process, and their planning for advertisements. headaches, racing or irregular heart beat, The by-election in Victoria will be called the future does not look beyond the next Smart meters are one part of BC Hydro’s insomnia and anxiety when exposed to certain within six months by Prime Minister Harper, election,’ stated Galloway. ‘We need a strong ‘grid modernization program’, designed to radiofrequencies such as WiFi. due to the resignation of former Member of voice in Parliament that will transcend the replace aging and antiquated infrastructure. The BC Human Rights Tribunal, ruling on Parliament Denise Savoie on August 31, with petty bickering which characterizes so much of The plan to use wireless smart meters has not CST’s complaint against BC Hydro, found it Savoie citing health reasons for her resignation. the opposition parties’ input. We need a voice been popular with some, but BC Hydro reports was too ‘broad.’ The Tribunal ruled that the The riding has been held by the NDP for the that will speak up for truth, for democracy and that ‘the vast majority of customers–96%– class, as it was framed, could apply to any past five years and by the Liberals for 13 years VIC BY-ELECTION, please turn to page 3 have accepted them.’ person with a medical condition, diagnosed or As with any type of ‘progress,’ there is undiagnosed. If CST refines the class to include Fire ban extends into October considerable debate. Some groups, such as only those persons ‘allegedly diagnosed with Thinking of burning? Think again. Category 2 demonstrate the need for extreme caution. Citizens for Safe Technology, are opposing the EHS and who have been advised to avoid open fires and fireworks are prohibited within Campfires are permitted, up to 1/2-metre- installation, citing health reasons and their exposure to wireless technology’, the Tribunal the Coastal Fire Centre area until October 15, or high by 1/2-metre-wide, as are cooking stoves right to be free from wireless technologies. The will consider the complaint appropriate. St until the prohibition is rescinded. using gas, propane or briquettes. Maintain a BC Privacy Commissioner found several areas Clair said she was not surprised by this, but ‘we The prohibition applies to the burning of any fireguard by removing debris from the campfire where BC Hydro could make improvements in were trying to protect everybody. We will just waste, slash or other material piled smaller than area and keep a hand tool and water available its management of confidential customer be focusing on people with EHS now.’ 2m high and 3m wide, the burning of stubble or nearby to put it out. information. BC Hydro’s mandate to use BC Hydro says it will work with customers grass over an area less than 2,000 sq metres, Category 3 open burning for resource wireless, instead of wired meters, has been to address their concerns about potential and the use of any fireworks or burning barrels. management is allowed. Anyone conducting an challenged, too. impacts of wireless meters. It says meters can The Coastal Fire Centre covers the entire open burn must first obtain a burn registration The Right to Refuse Wireless be moved away from the house (at the area west of the Coast Mountain range from the number by calling 1.888.797.1717. Citizens for Safe Technology is proceeding with customer’s expense), and installation can be US/Canada border at Manning Park to the The prohibition covers BC Parks, Crown and a class action, advocating through the BC delayed. Cindy Verschoor, Communications northern border of South Tweedsmuir Park, the private lands, but does not apply within the Human Rights Tribunal for the rights of those Manager for BC Hydro’s Smart Metering Lower Mainland, Sunshine Coast, boundaries of local governments that have diagnosed with electromagnetic Program, is ‘confident’ that the meters do not Island, Gulf Islands and Haida Gwaii. forest-fire prevention bylaws and are serviced hypersensitivity (EHS) to not have wireless transmit 24/7. ‘There is a lot of misinformation Warm, dry fall conditions continue to dry by a fire department. Please check with civic technologies at their homes. out there,’ said Verschoor. ‘Unless you are forest fuels. Recent blazes in Saanich, authorities for any restrictions before lighting a Una St Clair, founder of Citizens for Safe SMART GRID, please turn to page 4 Shawnigan Lake, and on Saturna and Galiano fire. More info at: www.bcwildfire.ca. 0 is at these SERIOUS COFFEE locations — look for the ‘Island Tides’ yellow boxes outside or racks inside! Sidney—Beacon Avenue Nanaimo—VI Conference Centre Parksville—Heritage Centre Mall South Duncan—Sun Valley Mall Nanaimo—Beaufort Centre Courtenay—Southgate Centre, Cliffe Avenue Nanaimo—Crnr Island Hwy @ Hammond Bay Rd Duncan—Cowichan Commons Mall Port Alberni—Shoppers Drugmart Plaza, 10th Ave Nanaimo—South Parkway Plaza Mill Bay—Island Highway @ Frayne Rd Nanaimo—Hammond Bay Rd CO-OP Campbell River—Willow Point Village Page 2, ISLAND TIDES, October 4, 2012 MARJORIE BAILEY 1911–2012 On September 1, family and friends paid a final tribute to Soon after moving to Pender, Marjorie also became Marjorie Bailey in a moving ceremony at St Peter’s Anglican secretary of the Pender Post Society, and subsequently she Church on North . Five years earlier Marjorie served as vice-president, president, and off-island subscription AT POINT ATKINSON herself had drafted the format of this service, thoughtfully chair. OCTOBER selecting the hymns and readings. At that time she had no idea As a devoted member of the Anglican Church, Marjorie Day Time Ht./ft. Ht./m. Day Time Ht./ft. Ht./m. that the Church of the Good Shepherd, her chosen place of served with the Women’s Guild (ACW) and worked with other 0057 4.6 1.4 0118 11.5 3.5 worship, would be closed down, but she had nevertheless parishioners to design and create both the Memorial Garden 0748 13.8 4.2 0737 6.2 1.9 written in her notes, with characteristic thoughtfulness and at the Church of the Good Shepherd on South Pender and the WE3 1319 9.5 2.9 11TH 1430 13.8 4.2 1834 13.1 4.0 2056 7.9 2.4 consideration for others, that ‘St Peter’s would be more walkway garden at St Peter’s on North Pender, as well as 0131 4.3 1.3 0230 12.1 3.7 convenient as people may come from Sidney and it saves supporting every Parish activity and endeavour with both her 0837 13.8 4.2 0834 6.6 2.0 travel’. She also would have had no inkling that well over 100 shared wisdom and her physical effort and example. TH4 1401 10.2 3.1 12FR 1502 14.1 4.3 1900 12.8 3.9 2130 6.9 2.1 people would attend. She was also a member of the Farmer’s Institute and its Marjorie was born in Armstrong, BC, on June 13, 1911. Early offshoot, the Flower Growers Group, later to become the 0207 4.6 1.4 0328 12.8 3.9 0931 13.8 4.2 0923 6.9 2.1 in the 1920s, the Bailey family moved to Vancouver, where Garden Club, of which she was president and for many years FR5 1452 10.5 3.2 13SA 1532 14.4 4.4 Marjorie completed her high school education. She went on to an executive member. She also served on the Pender Island 1929 12.5 3.8 2206 5.6 1.7 the University of Manitoba, achieving her bachelor’s degree in Recycling Society Executive, and was a founder of the Floral 0247 4.9 1.5 0422 13.8 4.2 1028 13.5 4.1 1010 7.2 2.2 home economics, and then returned to Art Group. In 1995, she was SA6 1559 10.8 3.3 14SU 1602 14.4 4.4 Vancouver to pursue a teaching career. nominated for the Order of British 12.1 4.3 2003 3.7 2244 1.3 Marjorie’s father had died when she was Columbia. 0332 5.2 1.6 0514 14.4 4.4 1128 13.5 4.1 1054 8.2 2.5 only eight years old, and so when she Gardening was a passion for SU7 1728 10.8 3.3 15MO 1635 14.8 4.5 returned home from university she took on Marjorie. In 1989, at age 78, she 2051 11.5 3.5 2324 3.0 0.9 the responsibility of looking after her realized an especially challenging 0425 5.6 1.7 0607 14.8 4.5 widowed mother. Peter Bailey, Marjorie’s dream by completing the Master 1224 13.5 4.1 1140 8.9 2.7 MO8 1850 10.5 3.2 16TU 1709 14.8 4.5 nephew, told us at her Memorial Service Gardener program at Van Dusen 2208 11.2 3.4 that he believes she turned down five offers Botanical Gardens in Vancouver. To 0527 5.9 1.8 0006 2.3 0.7 of marriage partly because she needed to do so, she and a friend travelled to 1314 13.8 4.2 0701 15.1 4.6 TU9 1944 9.8 3.0 17WE 1228 9.5 2.9 look after her mother, but also because she Vancouver and stayed overnight for 2346 10.8 3.3 1747 14.8 4.5 would not have been allowed to continue nine weeks through the winter 0633 6.2 1.9 0051 1.6 0.5 her teaching career as a married woman! months. Both passed the final exam 1356 13.8 4.2 0758 15.1 4.6 10WE 2022 8.9 2.7 18TH 1321 10.2 3.1 In the autumn of 1961, Marjorie with flying colours. This was typical 1828 14.4 4.4 purchased property on South Pender of the young-at-heart Marjorie who ADD ONE HOUR TO TIMES FOR DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME Island. She continued her teaching career, had a first-class brain and a never- NEW MOON OCTOBER 15 spending holidays on Pender where she flagging desire to continue learning was immediately drafted into helping with throughout her 101 years. the Fall Fair: ‘In 1962, I judged almost every In 1997, Marjorie moved to North TRIBAL LEASE EXPIRING category of exhibits, everything except fruit Pender. Her new home was smaller and vegetables!’ She continued taking part in the Fall Fair for and the property was steep and rocky. Undaunted, she created more than 20 years, as judge or convenor. In her late 80s and and maintained vegetable and flower gardens, installed 15 homes must be early 90s, she was also asked to be a judge at the irrigation systems using captured rain water, and produced sold and moved Fall Fair. Always small in stature, she diminished over the plants and vegetables to share. In her early 90s, concerned years, and she told (with that characteristic twinkle in her eye) about the changing climate, she decided to design and create a how her water taxi chauffeurs had to lift her up bodily to settle new bed of Mediterranean plants, carefully chosen to be hardy her in the boat for the crossing to Mayne. and drought- and deer-tolerant. Countless Islanders’ gardens In the spring of 1972, Marjorie retired from her active have benefited from her skill as a plant propagator. In 2005, teaching career. Her presence in the classroom had clearly been she gave a presentation to the Garden Club entitled inspirational and she maintained contact and friendship with ‘Multiplication can be fun! Plant Propagation.’ Many attendees many of her students. In retirement, she plunged into said it was one of the clearest and most interesting community life with energy, enthusiasm and effectiveness presentations they had attended. Marjorie was a young 93 at (creating a large and beautiful garden in her spare time). the time. BUY | RAISE| MOVE| LEVEL Marjorie had many gifts, one of them being the ability to assess In 2006, Marjorie felt the time had come to leave Pender a need and to find a way of filling it. She was neither bossy nor Island. Always independent, in control of her own life and www.nickelbros.com 1-866-320-2268 opinionated but quietly confident and determined. destiny, she found an apartment at Norgarden in Sidney, put For Marjorie, reading was the breath of life, and she was her house on the market, held a big garage sale, sold up and horrified to discover there was no library in her new home. Not moved. She was 95. Her new home was charming, and she one to moan, she set about rectifying the situation. She gathered welcomed friends any time of the day. You would be greeted a small group of individuals to establish the ‘Pender Lender’. It and cherished, and always her first question was about you, AT FULFORD HARBOUR opened its doors in December 1973, in the backroom of the your family, and your doings–the answers to which she OCTOBER Pender United Church. She served as Library president during remembered. Still needing to be useful and to contribute to her Day Time Ht./ft. Ht./m. Day Time Ht./ft. Ht./m. the crucial early years, securing the library’s first permanent new community, it was not long before Marjorie, now 96, home in the old school’s annex when the Penders’ new School assessed another need and filled it. She founded ‘The 0013 3.3 1.0 0024 8.2 2.5 0744 9.8 3.0 0653 4.6 1.4 and Community Centre was built in 1977. Her legacy continues Norgarden Knitters’. Each Friday morning a group of elderly WE3 1244 7.5 2.3 11TH 1409 10.2 3.1 as the Pender Library grows and expands to this day. ladies met under Marjorie’s guidance and each, in her own way, 1748 9.5 2.9 2025 6.2 1.9 Of course, it would be no surprise to hear that Marjorie was contributed knitted or other hand-crafted items to be donated 0049 3.3 1.0 0147 8.5 2.6 0838 9.8 3.0 0746 4.9 1.5 keenly involved with the Library garden and was a volunteer to charity. This was amazingly successful, filling a social need TH4 1334 8.2 2.5 12FR 1435 10.2 3.1 worker for years, rain or shine, with complete disregard for the among the residents of Norgarden as well as helping a good 1810 9.5 2.9 2052 5.2 1.6 pain in her joints. One memorable winter’s day, Pender cause. 0127 3.3 1.0 0258 8.9 2.7 Islanders awoke to deep snow and icy conditions. Marjorie This diminutive woman shone. Throughout her very long 0936 9.8 3.0 0834 5.2 1.6 FR5 1434 8.5 2.6 13SA 1459 10.2 3.1 telephoned the Library to say she might be late getting there life, she shone with deep and abiding love for her family, for 1834 9.2 2.8 2122 4.3 1.3 for her shift. ‘No problem, Marjorie, we can manage, you stay her countless friends, young and old, and for her community. 0209 3.3 1.0 0400 9.5 2.9 home and keep warm,’ was the reply. Half an hour later She shone with energy, compassion, humour and effort. 1036 9.8 3.0 0919 5.9 1.8 SA6 1555 8.5 2.6 14SU 1524 10.5 3.2 Marjorie drove up, having dug herself out of her driveway and I am a better person for having known her. 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Photo: TJ Watt On September 14, about 200 scientists and concerned citizens rallied at the federal government building in downtown Victoria to protest the federal Conservatives’ assault on scientific research, environmental monitoring, information dissemination, and informed decision-making in Canada. Rally organizer Ken Wu says he expects the political momentum against the Prime Minister’s cuts to scientific programs and institutions will continue to grow.

In July 2012, Taseko submitted an updated version of the EIS Taseko’s ‘New’ Prosperity which proposed moving the tailings dump two kilometers Patrick Brown upstream of Fish Lake, but the government rejected it, saying it aseko Mines Ltd has submitted a new Environmental was incomplete and did not address all the deficiencies in the Impact Statement for its proposed copper/gold mine previous submission. some 125km southwest of Williams Lake, BC. This latest On September 19, 2012, Taseko submitted a completed and TEIS will be considered by a new federal/provincial Joint Review revised EIS, renaming the project ‘New Prosperity’. The Review Panel. Panel now appears to be moving ahead, having invited public In January 2010, Taseko’s original proposal was approved comment on Draft Hearing Procedures, and applications for by BC’s Environment Ministry, which stated that the economic Interested Party Status. benefit of the mine far outweighed any negative environmental At the same time, local First Nations and environmental impacts it might have. These impacts mainly concerned Fish groups expressed concern that the BC provincial government Lake, which Taseko proposed using for a tailings dump. The had given Taseko permission to proceed with roads, test pits, local Tsilqot’in First Nation knew the lake as Teztan Biny and and drill holes; these are exempt from provincial environmental valued it as a consistent source of fish. assessment. After a separate environmental assessment, the federal Meanwhile, the stock market commentary ‘Mining Watch’ government rejected the Taseko proposal in November 2010, flagged ‘significant risks’ concerning Taseko share prices. In but in November 2011 agreed to form a Joint Review Panel to addition to concerns about First Nations opposition and doubts hear a revised proposal from Taseko. (It is said to be unusual about political support, it commented, ‘New Prosperity capital for a project to be granted a second chance at an environmental and operating cost estimates do not include key factors that will review.) affect the economic viability of the project and share price GF

VIC BY-ELECTION from page 1 candidate for the BC Green Party in the 2013 provincial election for our future.’ (see article, page 9). The Victoria by-election is considered to be particularly Donald Galloway was born in Scotland, and was educated important for the federal Greens, as it is adjacent to the riding at Edinburgh University where he studied Law and Philosophy. of Saanich-Gulf Islands where party leader Elizabeth May was He was then awarded a full scholarship to pursue graduate elected in 2011. It is considered to be one of the most studies at Harvard Law School. In 1975, he immigrated to environmentally-conscious ridings in Canada. Victoria is the Canada and was appointed as an Assistant Professor of Law at base of numerous environmental organizations and other not- Queen’s University in Kingston. He moved to BC in 1989 and for-profit societies, and has many socially progressive, was a Visiting Professor at UVic for two years, before being conservation-minded voters. appointed as Professor of Law. ‘Doubling the Green Party’s caucus will be a much bigger In 1998, he was appointed to the Immigration and Refugee change in the political dynamics of Canada than just sending Board of Canada and served as a member for three years before another Liberal, NDP or Conservative to Parliament,’ stated returning to teaching. He has been the recipient of the Bora federal Green Party leader Elizabeth May, who has worked with Laskin National Fellowship in Human Rights Research and has Galloway for over 30 years. ‘The momentum that will be authored and co-authored two text books on immigration law. generated by electing a second Green MP will set in motion the He teaches Immigration and Citizenship Law and Tort Law. For formation of a growing Green political force in Canada, similar two years he served as Southern Director of the Akitsiraq Law School, a program of legal studies run by the University of to parliaments in Europe and around the world where there is R ESORT & SPA greater environmental progress. It will also improve the culture Victoria in Iqaluit, Nunavut. He was the founding President of nnn%gf\kjZfm\%Zfd›250-629-2100 in Parliament and create a healthier democracy–in a nation that the Canadian Association of Refugee and Forced Migration greatly needs more democracy right now. We are excited that Studies and is currently a member of the executive of the such a hard-working, intelligent, and eloquent nominee as Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers. DOCK BUILDING 0 Donald Galloway is stepping forward as a candidate in this Donald is married and has a twelve-year-old daughter. COMPONENTS & ACCESSORIES riding.’ ‘Having Donald in Parliament along with Elizabeth will be E-Z BUILD DOCK KIT an important change in the dynamics of Canadian politics, as two Green voices would then make democracy, climate change, and sustainability central to the political debates in this country,’ stated Dr Andrew Weaver, renowned Uvic climate scientist, and

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A great idea, but I would Strait of Georgia’s only oppose, any future proposed gold mine operations, by Imperial go further by asking for even higher carbon taxes. ‘Wow,’ you Free & Mail-Delivered Newspaper Metals or others, within Eelseuklis/Onadsilth, otherwise known say, ‘higher taxes—great!’ as the Fandora property in Tranquil Inlet, in the Tofino area. I do realize that most people think that taxes are bad–and 21,000 copies this edition Our Tla-o-qui-aht representatives have presented written higher taxes worse. If that is your opinion, please hear me out. 14,447 print copies delivered to documents to the proponent and the Even as dead bodies piled up in city streets, pre-industrial government clearly indicating our opposition to this project. Europeans did not know the cause or solution to horrific Gulf Island households Our Tribal Parks Guardians have even escorted Imperial Metals epidemics that killed millions and destroyed the quality of life staff from the site. The impacts in many cities. As a result, pit toilets associated with gold mining, its continued to be built close to destructive resource extraction drinking water wells—a really bad techniques, with its usage of idea. heavy metals, creates massive But a scientist, Louis Pasteur, environmental harm that we used a microscope to show that 3,553 print copies on Ferry Routes & in: will not allow in our Tla-o-qui- deadly and unseen bacteria existed Victoria • Saanich • Sidney • Cobble Hill aht Chiefs Territories. in water that looked clean. As a Mill Bay • Crofton • Duncan • Chemainus These lands and resources result, local governments Ladysmith • Nanaimo • Bowser • Courtenay Port Alberni • Campbell River hold significant cultural and established a water tax to fund the spiritual importance to our Tla- disinfection of drinking water. As a 3,000 online readers each edition o-qui-aht Chiefs and Peoples, result, people lived, the economy Owner & Publisher: Christa Grace-Warrick and it is our collective prospered and cities thrived–and a Editor & Production Manager: Sara Miles responsibility to continue our great environmental and human Contributors: Patrick Brown, Priscilla Ewbank, Elizabeth May Traditional ways for future crisis was stopped. Patricia Callendar, Brian Crumblehulme, Helani Davison generations to come. After that experience, we now Sonja Goldsmith, Edi Johnston, Elva Kellington, Reina Lebaron We, the Tla-o-qui-aht know that we should not pee into For years we have beeen wondering which birds were taking Ken Madsen, Mary Morris, Henny Schnare, Ralph Shaw Peoples, want all of Canada and our drinking water. And in the the grapes that grow on our deck pergola. 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A water tax was used in Europe to provide healthy drinking Off-Island Canadian Print Subscription: $44.80 Voluntary Mail & Box Pick-up Subscription: $28.00 Our spiritual connection to Eelseuklis/Onadsilth is through water, in spite of opposition from property owners. High carbon US Subs: $60.00 • Online PDF: free a strength and power of nature that cannot be defined in the taxes are needed now to provide clean air, in spite of the www.islandtides.com English language. Nor can any Canadian or foreign government constant messaging in the media that taxes are always bad. We attempt to define our Tla-o-qui-aht roles and responsibilities must prevent the breakdown of our climate to allow our through their own perspectives, languages, historical reports or economy to thrive–just like providing clean drinking water did Your TotalTotal research findings. for those European cities. Our Tla-o-qui-aht Tribal Parks approach on resource Our supply of air is limited–if the earth was an onion, the WaterWater SolutionSolution management is a revitalized Traditional approach combining atmosphere would be as thin as the last layer of skin. So we must and applying spiritual, social, economic and environmental not pollute our air; instead, we must phase out the burning of Gulf Islands Water Treatment stewardship in a healthy modern context. A gold mine would fossil fuels. A carbon tax is the simplest way to achieve this. lead to catastrophic impacts on our fisheries and ecosystem and A carbon tax could be given back to individuals at year end, ~ Rainwater Harvesting is not consistent with our Tla-o-qui-aht fishery strategy to like a dividend. Or it could be spent on green projects to clean ~ Water treatment for wells, rebuild fish habitat stocks in the region. our air. Either way, it will encourage consumers to buy products surface supplies & seawater If we allow for industrial mining in the Tofino area, or using the least amount of oil or gas, because those products will ~ Filtration & Disinfection anywhere within our Tla-o-qui-aht Chiefs Territories, there is be cheaper. ~ Slow sand filtration no turning back. Once completed, the disturbances associated In BC, we have a small carbon tax. But we need a more ~ Small systems Health with these types of activities, despite all efforts, cannot then comprehensive and larger carbon tax on all types of fossil fuels, Authority approvals restore our ecosystem back to its original, pristine state. at all points in the economy, and by all levels of government: Our Tla-o-qui-aht Peoples have vested rights and interests federal, provincial and municipal. Bacteria,Bacteria, Arsenic,Arsenic, Turbidity,Turbidity, Tannins-TOC,Tannins-TOC, HHardness,ardness, muchmuch more!more! in the land and resources and aspirations to continue to pursue Let your politicians know that you favour high carbon taxes. www.watertiger.netwwww..watertigerer..net sustainable living conditions, for example through the Nuu- And if your neighbours or friends say you are nuts, tell them the VictoriaVictoria BuBurnabyrnaby CCourtenayourtenay chah-nulth fishery court case, seafood gathering and story about those early Europeans who stopped dying when ((250)250) 412-1110412-1110 ((604)604) 630-1114630-1114 ((250)250) 3339-691439-6914 ecotourism. Imperial Metals’ proposed gold mine at the they started paying a water tax needed to disinfect their drinking Fandora site would have massive negative impacts on our Nuu- water. chah-nulth ways and our attempts to ensure the well being of You can contact individual politicians or the provincial Southern Gulf Islands our Tla-o-qui-aht Peoples and our environment. finance committee which is asking for public input about a Economic Development Commission Terry Dorward Seit-cha, carbon tax in BC–see www.betterfuturefund.ca/about. Project Manager of Tla-o-qui-aht Tribal Parks, Tofino Peter Nix, Maple Bay 0 On September 18th, 25 people from Saturna, Mayne, Galiano and Pender, along with staff from Victoria, came together to SMART GRID from page 1 for Research on Cancer (IARC) stated that ‘overall, no increase consider a year round economy to enhance the well being of all in risk of glioma or meningioma was observed with use of island residents. using the right equipment, it’s hard to tell what you are mobile phones’ (available online at interphone.iarc.fr/ Whether this involves local agriculture, lower emissions, younger measuring.’ Radiofrequency bands can be isolated for testing, but with the wrong device, one could be measuring hundreds UICC_Report_Final_03102011.pdf). It is unclear why some fire department volunteers, artists and artisans, cottage industry, news outlets reported that Interphone concluded that making inter-island transportation, or any other outcome, the decisions of sources. depend on all of us. The debate remains: do citizens have the right to refuse cell phone calls for more than half an hour a day over ten years could increase users’ risk of developing gliomas by 40%. The folks who came together this September answered prior ads wireless technologies? And on what grounds? Director Dr Christopher Wild, is quoted in an IARC press calling for interest. This ad is to let everyone on all the Gulf Wireless Signals & Cancer release, ‘An increased risk of brain cancer is not established from Islands know that the initiative is underway and we are looking There is still controversy over the health impacts of wireless for feedback to help us chart a course that benefits all. the data from Interphone. However, observations at the highest signals. The ‘Interphone Study’ appears to be the most One of the key areas that might be of interest is building a level of cumulative call time and the changing patterns of mobile comprehensive study on the link between cellphone use and phone use since the period studied by Interphone, particularly platform that lets anyone express their own creativity and realize cancer risk. No studies have included as many exposed cases, some personal gratification or economic gain thereby. If we can in young people, mean that further investigation of mobile inventory all the talent we have on our islands we could move particularly long-term and heavy users of mobile phones. In its phone use and brain cancer risk is merited.’ final report on Interphone last year, the International Agency the world. SMART GRID, please turn to next page Please send your ideas to the EDC Commissioners: Galiano – Michael Hoebel, [email protected] Mayne – Richard De Armond, [email protected] Butler Gravel & Pender – Walter Kohli, [email protected] Concrete…Better Saturna – John Simpson, [email protected] from the ground up! EDC Advisory: Galiano – Justin Stephenson, [email protected] Reliable Service, Quality Products Mayne - Brian Crumblehulme, [email protected] & Competitive Prices Pender – Shahid Hussain, [email protected] Serving All The Gulf Islands Saturna – Richard Blagborne, [email protected] All the best, Phone 250-652-4484 David Howe, SGI Regional Director Fax 250-652-4486 6700 Butler Crescent, Saanichton, B.C. www.islandtides.com ISLAND TIDES, October 4, 2012, Page 5 The ‘No BC Legislature’ Report School District #64 Claire Trevena, NDP MLA-North Island (Gulf Islands) magine a beautiful place with abundant natural resources As the Opposition, we were able to hold the Minister to The Board of Education for School District No. 64 (Gulf that are exported offshore at an unsustainable rate. Imagine account when the Legislature was, briefly, in session. But Islands) wishes to announce that they have accepted the a place where one out of every four children is not ready to because the Premier has decided the Legislature will not have a resignation of Superintendent Jeff Hopkins effective March enterI school. Imagine a place where, once kids do get to school, fall session, the Forest Minister can do what he wants, without 31, 2013. Through his leadership over the past six years, Jeff has many of them are going there hungry because there’s no food questions, without scrutiny. deeply influenced the culture and climate of our district. His at home (if they have a home). Imagine a place where the head As the Opposition Critic for Children and Family positive contributions to personalized and place-based of government decides to shut down the parliament and govern Development, I have a responsibility to the province’s most learning, program development, and building leadership by decree. vulnerable kids, and to taxpayers, to ask questions of the new capacity through coaching and mentoring have helped our Most of us in the liberal west would decry this as a minister. At the top of my list is how can this ministry, which is district to become recognized as one of the most innovative dictatorship, a banana republic, a place of extremes where so overstretched, be spending $192 million on a and learner-focused in the province. The Board will continue democracy has been stifled. computer system which is creating huge problems to build on the solid foundation provided by Jeff who is But look in the mirror, BC. This is happening ‘democracy and could cost millions more to fix. That’s a lot of committed to working with us over the next number of here. Once again, our Legislature will not be is fragile. It will money to spend without scrutiny, without months to ensure a smooth transition. sitting this fall. Your democratically-elected questions or debate—but that’s what she will be We wholeheartedly thank Jeff and wish him success in his representatives won’t be in Victoria from May continue to be able to do. future endeavours as he continues to pursue his vision for 2012 through to February 2013. We have been abused when As the MLA for North Island, I try to ensure education. in the legislature only 48 days this year. people do not that the wide range of voices that makes up this Democracy 101: a democracy works because defend it.’ wonderful place are heard: the voices of parents, one political party has been given an elected of workers, of communities, the voices of First IS YOUR mandate to govern and other political parties hold it to Nations, the voices of new Canadians. I talk about our account. It is not perfect, but it is a system of balances, of give access to health care, the cost of post secondary education, and take, of criticism and compromise. Democracy is not about our economic future and the damage done to the ferry system– WELLSAFE TO WATER DRINK? saying, as this Premier and her predecessor did, that debate is our marine highway. pointless or it’s busy work or it is, to quote Premier Clark, ‘sick’. Constituents’ voices, which I take with me to Victoria, are Contamination can occur To do so undermines the trust that every single person has silenced because the Premier has decided to keep your without changes in colour or put into process when they have gone to vote. And that in turn Legislature closed. taste. Be safe, test annually. puts in jeopardy the cohesion of our communities and society. Our democracy is fragile. It will continue to be abused when North is resource-rich; our forests are people do not defend it. I realize that life is busy and people are magnificent and valuable for logging, tourism, hunting and overworked; many are weary or, sadly, cynical about whether 250-656-1334 foraging. Along with my opposition colleagues, I have it’s worth doing anything. But I hope that more and more people questioned the level of raw-log exports. An independent will say publicly that the Premier has no right to act as an committee advises the Minister of Forests about whether the autocrat, to close the doors of your parliament, that no single logs a company wants to export are surplus to what is required person should have the ability to shut down our democratic by British Columbia mills. If they are surplus, they can be system and silence your voices. fax: 250-656-0443 Website: www.mblabs.com exported. The Minister overruled that committee more than 80 Claire Trevena can be reached by phone on 250.287.5100 in Email: [email protected] times in a few months, allowing to be shipped offshore logs that Campbell River, or 1.866.387.5100 toll free. 0 2062 Unit 4 Henry Ave. West, Sidney, B.C. V8L 5Y1 could have and should have been used here.

SMART GRID from previous page explained Verschoor, ‘but with a modern grid, BC Hydro can JAKOBSEN Why No ‘Wired’ Option? deliver just the amount required.’ ASSOCIATES The new system will also help BC Hydro ‘get the lights back Citizens for Safe Technology says it is again going before the BC on faster’ in the case of outages. With a ‘smart’ grid, customers Court of Appeal, on October 18, to argue that the Clean Energy will not need to notify BC Hydro by phone if their power is out. Custom designs for Homes, Act does not prescribe or require wireless smart meters. In a New data management systems will give customers access Renovations, Interiors, previous application to the BC Utilities Commission (BCUC), to more information about their electricity consumption. and Vacation Homes CST suggested that, by selecting wireless technology, BC Hydro Currently, daily usage is reported on a bill that arrives every two was operating outside its mandate. The legal challenge and a months. With smart meters, you can view hourly usage the next Keith Jakobsen www.jakobsenassociates.com subsequent appeal were both dismissed by the BCUC. day, using an online account. 604.261.5619 [email protected] BC Hydro’s Request For Proposal for the new meters did not In addition, customers will not be required to close and open specify the technology, only the functionality for the new meters: an account when moving. There will be no more estimating ‘smart.’ Of all the proposals received by BC Hydro, ‘not one usage, and data entry errors will not be a factor because it will proponent offered a wired alternative,’ said Communications not be manually entered anymore, although meters will s ervice cel Manager Verschoor. She offered some possible reasons for this, continue to be manually read until the upgraded system is fully Installs the world’s best heat pumps! the primary one being cost. The upgrade is being built upon in place. existing infrastructure. In a densely populated country like Italy, each transformer services about 80 customers, but in BC, the Time of Use Pricing Ductless average is about eight customers per transformer. So, in BC Some people are concerned that BC Hydro will take advantage Inverter Drive wiring each transformer costs more per customer. ‘If someone of the smart meter’s capacity for time-of-use billing, making Technology had a wired solution that met our needs, we would have looked rates more expensive. Verschoor assured Island Tides that 100% money at it,’ said Verschoor. BC Hydro will not be doing time of use pricing, although smart back Electricity For The 21st Century meters make it possible. Utilities commonly use time of use pricing in areas where peak demand exceeds capacity, so they guarantee British Columbia’s electrical grid was built mostly throughout use coal or gas to meet the demand. These types of generation the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. Upgrading the grid and using smart are more expensive, so the utilities try to level out the ‘peak’ meters presents several opportunities for future development, through rates. In BC, about 94% of capacity is from such as feed-in tariffs. hydroelectric power, making the system quite ‘flexible’. BC Hydro has some programs where customers can feed Currently, BC rates are the fourth lowest in North America. How Much Could You Save? power into the grid, but it is not possible with old meters. Verschoor said the utility intends to first get the new meters Privacy Concerns Mitsubishi Electric Cooling and Heating Systems save an average of 70% over baseboard heat. installed and tested before developing the policies and programs Last year, the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPA) received more than 600 individual Plus act now to claim $1100 in Gov’t Grants! necessary to make feed-in tariffs possible. ‘It will be available to customers in future,’ said Verschoor. ‘All customers could complaints about the Smart Meter Initiative. As a result, the Get It Installed potentially feed the grid.’ Some critics say BC Hydro should be OIPA published an investigative report, in December 2011. talking about feed-in tariffs now, rather than waiting to begin It found BC Hydro to be complying with the Freedom of ! A qualified home estimator will provide a those discussions. Information and Protection of Privacy Act regarding the free in-home consultation BC Hydro also wants to identify where we are losing collection, use, disclosure, protection and retention of personal ! No ductwork means little mess and few electricity. New meters on the transformers will record the ‘step- information. However, it issued a series of recommendations remodeling expenses down’ of electricity before it is delivered to a home. This will covering concerns such as access to clients’ personal ! Our professionals can usually install the allow BC Hydro to find anomalies between what is stepped information, third-party disclosure, improved privacy and system in one day down, what is used, and what is ‘lost’ or stolen. information security training for employees, and the The smart grid will also optimize the amount of power sent introduction of read-access logging before beginning hourly C a l l T o d a y 1-888-760-0898 to each customer. ‘Currently we send more than is needed,’ consumption logging. 0 www.servicexcel.ca

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Round the Islands Single: $33.60 / $39.20 w image • Multi: $44.80 / $50.40 w image Payment with order by Visa or MasterCard • 250.629.3660 Friday, October 5 thru Sunday, October 7 Quadra Island Wild Mushroom Festival— Fri: keynote by mycologist Dr Berch of Southern Vancouver Island Mycological Society, Community Centre 7 pm, $10 Adult, $5 12&Under • Sat: Field Trips 10am-3pm: Guided Mushroom Species Collection $20, Children's Field Trip w/Young Naturalists $10, Mushroom Photography $20 • Sun: Public Viewing of Species Collection, 10am-1pm Community Centre, Free; Dyeing With Mushrooms 11am-1pm, $20; West Coast Truffles 1:30- 4pm, $20; Cooking With Wild Mushrooms 3-4:30pm, $20; 3-Course Wild Mushroom Themed Dinner 6 pm, Heriot Bay Inn • Info & tickets: Heriot Bay Inn, 250.285.3322, www.heriotbayinn.com • QUADRA Saturday–Monday, October 6-8 Thanksgiving Weekend Family Fun Swims—enjoy the NEW inflatable during the afternoon Fun Swims, wavepool, waterslide, diving boards, pirate ship, toddler pool, swirlpool & steam room • 4636 Elk Lake Drive (right off Pat Bay Hwy at Royal Oak exit) • Sat: 1-4pm, 6:30- 8:30pm; Sun: 1-4pm, 6-8pm; Mon: 10-noon, 1-4pm • Info: 24-hour Swim Info-line 250.475.7620 • SAANICH Saturday-Monday, October 6-8 16th Annual Gabriola Thanksgiving Studio Tour—more than 60 artists will open their doors to visitors from around the world; Gabriola Photo: Sonja Goldsmith invites art lovers to grab a user-friendly brochure and make a day of it • 10am-4pm • Free • Info: Judging entries at the Fair, September 16. www.gabriolaartscouncil.org • GABRIOLA Thursday, October 11 thru Sunday, October 28 Clear Sailing Into Silva Bay Echo Players presents ‘Separate Tables’— Page’s Resort & Marina on Gabriola reports that Transport might be an alternate solution offered to dumping the gear and directed by Gerri Hemphill, produced by Mike & Canada has been in to follow up on the the notices and removal perhaps a way to return the ‘lost’ items to the rightful owners. Judi Andrews • The Village Theatre, 110 West orders that were issued in July. As part of Transport Canada’s DFO’s enforcement officer was sympathetic but made it quite 2nd Avenue • Wednesday-Saturday: 7:30pm clear that the ‘found’ items were to go to the dump, so the sharp; Sunday Matinee: 2pm sharp • Tickets: mooring buoy enforcement plan, it has identified navigation $18 Adults, $15 Seniors, $10 Students, $5 areas within Silva Bay and Degnen Bay that should remain trucks and trailers went off to the landfill. The officer did Children, at the door or email [email protected] • Info: clear for the purposes of navigation. This is being done to however promise to work with the stakeholders on finding a www.echoplayers.ca • QUALICUM BEACH ensure that vessels and seaplanes have clear lanes to navigate solution to this and other shellfish industry problems. After Friday, October 12 in and out of the bay to the marinas and docks. eight years of beach cleanups, repeated attempts with all levels Dirty Grace—vocals-based trio featuring Boaters can now navigate through a 50-metre-wide channel of government to have this issue resolved, and many Mayne Island’s own Marley Iredale; three that has been cleared off Law Point and in front of the marinas reassurances, it is becoming difficult for islanders to remain songwriters produce a playful mix of music optimistic. ranging from provocatively cheeky to on the southwest side of Silva Bay. Likewise, the anchorage intimately introspective • Presented by area has been defined and cleared of buoys, docks and other The shellfish industry labels itself as ‘green and sustainable’. Mayne Island Music Society • Ag Hall • things that did not adhere to regulations. One has to wonder how it can do so when it treats the very Doors 7pm, Open Mike 7:30pm, Dirty Grace 8pm • Tickets: $15 • Info: Croquet Not Coal ~ Ken Madsen environment it relies on in such a manner. Perhaps if the www.mayneislandmusic.ca • MAYNE hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars given the industry More than 40 participants gathered on the Sunday of the in the form of government grants, et cetera, were curtailed, the Friday & Saturday, October 12 & 13 Labour Day weekend for the first, possibly annual, ‘Croquet Rick Scott ‘The Great Gazzoon’—free musical tenure holders might value their equipment a little more, Not Coal’ tournament on . As the name readings to launch 4-CD musical audio novel, ages secure it better, and retrieve it when it escapes. 8 to ageless. Can one boy’s love of music suggests, the event was held in aid of Denman Opposes Coal, overcome his fear and tranform his community? • a group of Island residents opposed to the proposed New Saturna Business Venture Fri: Courtenay Library, 11am; Sat: Campbell River Compliance Coal Mine above Fanny Bay. On the six croquet Wild Thyme Coffee House on is holding its grand Library, 2pm • Info: www.gazzoon.com • pitches ranged around the Denman Community School, the opening on Sunday, October 6. COURTENAY & CAMPBELL RIVER action was neither fast nor furious–it was fun. Islander Aleah Johnson has a full Saturday, October 13 The proposed coalmine is directly across Baynes Sound espresso bar set up in a converted Uplands & Near-shore Apocalypse: How Climate Change, 1963 Leyland double decker bus Plunging Fish Stocks & Declining Orcas Will Affect All Our from Denman Island and is currently in the middle of a Futures—Morning session presentations ‘with the experts’; Afternoon Provincial Environmental Assessment Process. There is strong two-minutes walk from Lyall ‘in the field with experts’ • Sponsored by Pender Islands Conservancy opposition to the coal mine on the island; ‘No Coal’ signs adorn Harbour. ‘We will open as usual at Association with Parks Canada • 9:30am start • Community Hall • Info: many driveways and well over 50% of residents have already 9am on Sunday, but the party Sara Steil, 250.629.6885 • PENDER signed a petition opposed to the mine. Climate change from starts at noon. We will be offering Saturday, October 13 coal burning, pollution that could threaten the vibrant shellfish samples of our Island-famous pies ‘The Intouchables’ pre-release screening- French Choice for Best industry in Baynes Sound, and 672 ore trucks every week and handing out loads of free coffee,’ said owner/operator Aleah. Foreign Film at the Oscars (2011, French w/subtitles, PG) After he Daily fare includes baked goods, breakfast and lunches. becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, a French aristocrat rumbling to Port Alberni–these are just some of the concerns hires a young man from the projects to be his caretaker. The two men of Denman Islanders. Nearshore Environment then develop a close friendship • 7:30pm • Community Hall • PENDER After the first round of croquet, the players were separated The Pender Islands Conservancy Association, in collaboration Sunday, October 14 into three divisions, plus a youth division. Barb Mortell won with Parks Canada, is holding an educational event on October Author Reading & Signing – join Sandy Martin, Kit Grauer & Celeste the ‘No Coal Express’ division. The ‘Clean Green Hand’ trophy 13. It will be an opportunity for the public to interact with Snowber, contributing authors to the new anthology Living Artfully: was won by Alan Stoddart, and Gloria Michin took home the scientists and experts working in marine and intertidal Reflections From the Far West Coast, which includes contributions from ‘Arctic Beluga’ prize. Lucy Dabbs won the youth trophy. The ecosystems. Discussion and presentations will focus on human 42 emerging & established artists, including Robert Amos, Mark distinctive trophies were designed and crafted by Graham Hobson, Susan Musgrave, Avis Rasmussen, Velcrow Ripper, Janet impacts on the Islands’ shorelines, sea bottom and the species Rogers & Bill Zuk • Presented by Books • 3pm • Brazier. found in these places. In the afternoon, there will be a chance Galiano Inn • GALIANO The tournament was enjoyable, but participants hoped of heading out into the ‘field’ with the experts, for a hands-on Thursday, October 18 there would be no need for a 2nd one, as that, of course, would experience. More details in the What’s On, this page. Marie-Josée Lord—award-winning Haitian mean the coalmine had been stopped. This fall and winter, and Savoury, Spicy & Sweet Canadian soprano performs ‘Jambalaya’, a the lead-up to next spring’s provincial election, will likely be a The 2nd Annual James Barber Fundraiser is on Sunday, gourmet recital entwining classical and popular critical phase in the campaign. There is more information at October 7, at Providence Farm in Duncan. Cowichan Chefs music: Gershwin, Verdi, Bernstein, Lama, Bizet & denmanopposescoal.wordpress.com and www.Coalwatch.ca. others • Presented by Gulf Islands Concerts Table and invited BC chefs are hosting this culinary showcase (Pender) • 7pm • Pender School • Single concert Aquaculture Clean Up ~ Edi Johnston in honour of the late James Barber, Canada’s Urban Peasant. $25 Adult, $12 Student, $5 Child @ Talisman and Once again Denman Islanders rallied to clean up their beaches This year’s fundraiser for Providence Farm has the theme of Southridge; Season Subscriptions also available (save $25!) • Info: during the annual Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup in savoury, spicy and sweet dishes made with local honey. Stations 250.629.2060 • PENDER September, organized locally by the Denman Island Marine will be set up throughout the historic buildings, offering culinary Friday thru Sunday, October 19 thru 21 Stewardship Committee. Once again, most of the debris came delicacies paired with local beer, wine and cider. Creative Threads Conspiracy—three–day from the shellfish industry. Of the two-and-a-half tons ‘Working with Providence Farm is really satisfying, they retreat of workshops for all levels of fibre artists with nine teachers and 13 classes: knitting, reluctantly deposited in the landfill, only half-a-ton was not have great staff, beautiful facilities and important work to do. quilting, weaving, felting, natural dyes; Fri: directly related to the shellfish industry in Baynes Sound. Much The Farm itself is a jewel for the Cowichan Valley and a vital Studio Tour & ‘Trunk Show’; Sat & Sun: classes of the two tons of industry equipment that was collected was cog in the local food system. All our support is important to all day; catered meals • Each class $10/hour • re-useable baskets, trays and many huge anti-predator nets keep this a vital part of the community,’ commented Bill Jones, Info: 250.335.0198, www.creativethreadsconspiracy.com • DENMAN which are hazardous to wildlife, swimmers and boaters. author, chef and food consultant at Deerholme Farm. Friday & Saturday, October 26 & 27 The many Denman Island volunteers who walked the Since 1979, Providence Farm, a registered charity and non- Making Waves: Sinking the Harper Agenda—the shores for the eighth year, collecting debris on the beach, were profit society, has been operating therapeutic programs for Council of Canadians presents a public forum & conference with Maude Barlow, Linda McQuaig, Bill ‘disgusted’ by the large amount of debris that originated with Cowichan Valley adults and seniors with mental health issues, McKibben & Grand Chief Stewart Phillip • Vancouver the shellfish industry. brain injuries, and developmental challenges. At the core of its Island Conference Centre • Info: 1.800.387.7177, ext Just before heading for the landfill, the truckloads of debris programming is horticultural therapy and a solid belief that 333, www.canadians.org/conference • NANAIMO were taken to the Courtenay office of Fisheries and Oceans caring for the land together is, by nature, healing and Canada (DFO), who regulates the industry. It was hoped there therapeutic. 0 www.islandtides.com Galiano’s Conservancy “Planting a seed of hope so that life is meaningful.” —Florence James, Penelakut Elder

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ROCKFISH RECOVERY NATIVE PLANT NURSERY MARINE PROTECTION

Rocksh (rock cod; red snapper) have been We are leading by example to restore the Since 1996, we have been working closely on the decline since the 90s, and unlike natural ecosystems on Galiano by growing with a variety of government agencies and lingcod, are showing no signs of recovery. is and planting beautiful native plant species. ENGO’s as part of the Southern Strait of is mainly due to their sensitivity to overshing We have used these plants for restoration Georgia Marine Conservation Network to and their extremely long lifecycles (the oldest projects, erosion prevention at disturbed sites, develop a National Marine Conservation Area rocksh found to date was 205 years old!) We in demonstration garden at the Recycling (NMCA) in the Strait of Georgia. An NMCA have long been involved in the designation of Resources Society, and in our home gardens. would provide some no-take sanctuaries, rocksh protection areas, and this year began Join us by getting your own lovely plants restrict oshore oil exploitation, and require exploratory dive surveys to see how many at our Native Plant Nursery, and ask us for conservation-minded management of the rocksh are in our Galiano waters. gardening advice! region from seaoor to seashore. is project has now moved forward to a critical stage, Since 2007, 164 no-take Rocksh where a proposed NMCA border has been Conservation Areas (RCAs) have been in drawn up by Parks Canada and approved place in BC, with 86 in the Strait of Georgia by BC Parks, and is entering a public alone! Most people don’t even realize that they review phase to determine the feasibility of are there – did you know that three RCAs the project. In the coming year we will be border Galiano Island, accounting for roughly increasing public understanding of the issue, 40% of its shoreline? We have been gathering and providing research on the important areas video footage, and are excited to show you in and critical habitat for the many species at risk the coming year what lies beneath the waves! that depend on this vast coastal ecosystem.

The Mid Galiano Island Protection Network connects existing protected areas into a contiguous conservation network extending from Trincomali Channel across to the Georgia Strait and back again. It will protect a signicant portion of the island’s topographic variation and associated ecological diversity and will secure valuable pathways for plant and animal migration from sea level to Galiano’s highest ridgeline. e network includes threatened coastal and inland blus with their Garry Oak and associated ecosystems; signicant wetlands; mature coastal Douglas-r forests, and over a mile of undeveloped shoreline. By protecting DL57, the site of the Learning Centre, we will add a Marine Protected Area to safeguard habitat for rocksh and other marine species at risk. The Galiano Learning Centre A bold initiative

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That is what members of The Explorers Club and Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) with video to view the for the Grand(m)others To Grand(m)others’ ‘The Fine pondered at the annual BC & Yukon Chapter meeting, held at seabed of Montague Harbour. They showed how these Art of Protest’ event on Salt Spring, September 19. Montague Harbour, September 7-9. Sponsored by The instruments could find subtle differences in features on the WithH boldness and candour, Armstrong delivered a speech Explorers Club and the Galiano Conservancy Association, the seabed that reveal evidence of former sea levels or human-made riddled with brutal facts regarding the injustices against women meeting brought together experts in archaeology, biology, features. The sonar unit and ROV showed video images and that still prevail in conflicted countries. Armstrong—recipient coastal mapping and underwater sonar, with Salish elders, sonar scan of the seabed on monitors onboard the support of seven honorary degrees, author of three books and a spelunkers, students and many others at Galiano for talks and vessel. documentary filmmaker—is a member of the International a field expedition. While the Women’s Commission at the United Nations, and three-time The theme was to learn underwater team Amnesty International award winner. about the people who was at work, As a journalist, Armstrong has written from zones of conflict inhabited Montague Washington State all over the world. She highlighted the courage of women, young Harbour centuries ago, U n i v e r s i t y and old, ‘who are claiming their space and propelling universal during the time when the archaeologist Colin change.’ Armstrong remarked that the status of women and the Pyramids of Gizeh were Grier led a walk state of the economy are closely related, emphasizing that there being built, and integrate around the harbour is new meaning to protest through the women’s movement. that information with to explain evidence The Artspring auditorium audience was reminded of observations of what the of former habitation misogynist men with ‘old’ attitudes who are still trying to coast of the Salish Sea is along the shore. The prevent women from gaining equality throughout parts of the like today. Explorers heard world. Women are still often seen as second-class citizens, even The BC & Yukon how archaeologists though they represent more than half the world’s population. Chapter has held its annual find layers where Armstrong gave three pertinent examples of how women are meeting on Salt Spring fires were once lit, taking action against oppression. Island for eight years; this how to identify fire- In Afghanistan, a group called ‘Young Women For Change’ was the Club’s first visit to Photo: Mary Morris cracked rocks left is empowering women and girls in a country where women who Galiano. Montague from cooking, and have been raped are sent to jail, and women have been killed Harbour was selected so that the Club members could combine how ancient sites are detected and mapped. for giving birth to a girl. Young Women For Change have the meeting with exploration of the harbour’s shoreline and At the same time, Eric McLay and Florence James strolled organized lectures, art exhibits and street marches to protest seabed. around Montague field and shoreline, while Florence spoke the discrimination and harassment they encounter every day. The Explorers Club is ‘an international multidisciplinary about her culture and her life in the local area. Eric described In Kenya, Armstrong described the ‘160 Girls’ case, a professional society dedicated to the advancement of field how traditional knowledge from today’s elders is so important collaboration to sue the state for failing to enforce the existing research and the ideal that it is vital to preserve the instinct to to helping understand his research findings. criminal law on rape and for allowing the rape of these 160 girls explore’. Founded in 1904, the New York City-based club has Naturalist Rob Butler showed other members of the ages 3-17 to go unpunished. ‘In Kenya, a woman is raped every served as a meeting point and unifying force for explorers and Explorers how he captures the spirit of the places he visits by 30 minutes,’ said Armstrong. Their plight is ignored while the scientists worldwide. Members of The Explorers Club have been making sketches in the field, using watercolours and a quick rapist is treated with impunity. responsible for an illustrious series of famous firsts: first to the pen and ink drawing. He explained how his drawings help him In Manzini, Swaziland in 2010, Armstrong reported on ‘The North Pole, first to the South Pole, first to the summit of Mount remember the place better than snapping a quick photograph, Gathering’, an event that culminated with a march of 2,000 Everest, first to the deepest point in the ocean, first to the surface even though most of his sketches are done in just ten minutes grandmothers, including 44 Canadian grannies, to raise of the moon. or so. awareness of the plight of grandmothers. Introducing the meeting at Montague on Friday morning, On Friday evening, the group gathered for dinner on the The Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign was and setting the stage for the weekend theme, ‘A Sense of Place’, lawn at the Galiano Conservancy office. Prior to the meal, organized through the Stephen Lewis Foundation. The were John Harper from the Explorers Club, Ken Millard of the Conservancy staff and directors had an opportunity to make campaign responds to the emerging crisis faced by African Galiano Conservancy Association and Penelakut elder Florence presentations about their current work. These included a talk grandmothers as they struggled to care for their own James. John introduced the program, Ken described the by Lia Chalifour about efforts to protect rockfish; Ken Millard grandchildren who had been orphaned by AIDS. impressive strides taken by the Conservancy Association and presenting the Galiano Restorative Learning Centre and the Armstrong commented that courage is required of more their plans for the future, and Florence gave a deep sense of protected area to span mid-Galiano (see special centre-section, people in the arena of human rights, saying that violence is place along with a link to the past through traditional knowledge this edition, for more info); and Keith Erickson describing the ‘everybody’s business’; an innocent by-stander is an oxymoron. and spirit. Conservancy’s mapping projects. During the meal, Annie In closing, Armstrong quoted political theorist Hannah Arendt Senior archaeologist Daryl Fedje, formerly with Parks Brown provided fiddle music. The evening provided a delightful saying, ‘Evil thrives on apathy. Hence apathy is evil.’ Canada, described the age and significance of archaeological opportunity for members of The Explorers Club and the Galiano You can learn more about this topic online, at sites on Haida Gwaii and Sidney Island. He indicated that Conservancy to discuss mutual interests. 0 www.grandmotherscampaign.org. people were hunting bears on Haida Gwaii 11,000 years ago, On Saturday afternoon, the meeting convened at the Galiano and that tools have been found there dating to 10,700 years ago. Community Hall where several Explorers gave talks on a wide Sea level rise and fall over the millennia have submerged many range of topics. Journalist, geoscientist and extreme snorkeler sites, to depths of over 100 metres in some places on Haida Susan Eaton spoke of a recent expedition to Antarctica. Maeva Gwaii. Gauthier talked about filmmaking and traditional knowledge Eric McLay, a doctoral student at the University of Victoria on an expedition to the North Slope of Alaska, and how she described the richness of the cultural history of the Montague worked with Inuit youth and elders to make videos of their 10940 West Saanich Rd site and its key place in understanding the archaeological community, highlighting their desire to document the drastic North Saanich sequence of human occupation in the Salish Sea. changes occurring due to climate change. 250-656-2547 Florence James told the group about her life as a young girl Rob Butler, Explorers Club Fellow International, spoke www.deepcovemarket.com born on Galiano and raised on . She relayed about the birds of the Gulf Islands from the Age of Pyramids to stories about the importance of the land to her parents and today. 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Industry Minister Christian Paradis claims there will Chapter 11 of NAFTA set the template for what are generally you were making a profit adding liquid plutonium to children’s be a thorough review against the Investment Canada called ‘investor-state provisions.’ I talked to our breakfast cereal and a government made that illegal, you can Act test for ‘net benefit.’ The NDP have started negotiators for NAFTA a few years ago and believed ‘What happens claim damages under Chapter 11. challenging the deal, finally joining me in raising them when they told me the idea was only to Canada has also paid millions in damages to a PCB disposal concerns about the takeover of Canadian oil when Canadian create a binding agreement to ensure any company, SD Myers of Ohio, for loss of profits when Canada sands companies by Chinese state-owned laws, passed expropriation of investor property was banned the export of PCB contaminated waste. And without enterprises. Conservative MPs claim the review democratically, are compensated. But the provisions of Chapter 11 waiting for any decision from the NAFTA Chapter 11 arbitration, will include national security concerns, but the struck down in hotel of NAFTA have been interpreted in a far more in 2010 Prime Minister Harper ordered a payment of $130 refusal to include a definition of ‘national room arbitrations?’ damaging way. The term ‘tantamount to million to US-based Abitibi Bowater when Newfoundland and security’ in the 2009 amendments to the Act does expropriation’ has been interpreted to mean Labrador insisted the company had no right to keep water rights not inspire confidence. changes in domestic laws that reduce a foreign and forest cutting rights to sell to a new buyer when it closed its Meanwhile, there is an even larger issue that no one corporation’s expectation of profits. mill. At the time, the Prime Minister said he will create a is asking about. On September 8, when Prime Minister Harper Chapter 11 of NAFTA is now understood to allow mechanism to ensure that if provinces create liability under was in Vladivostok, he and President Hu signed the Foreign corporations from Mexico or the USA to claim damages against investment rules, provinces would have to compensate the Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPPA) Canada if any level of Canadian government (municipal, federal government. The fact there was an argument to be made between China and Canada. The text is still secret. I asked last provincial or federal) causes them to experience less profit than by Newfoundland and Labrador (Abitibi Bowater was week in Question Period when the text would be public and if had been anticipated. Canada actually repealed a law limiting a benefiting from a 99-year lease, with water rights and logging we would be able to debate it in the House before the Nexen toxic gasoline additive, MMT, when the US-based contingent on running the mill) never got noticed as the money decision is made. Unfortunately, I got the pre-prepared answer manufacturer, Ethyl Corporation of Richmond, Virginia sued was paid out. The Prime Minister did not listen to the merits of from Minister Paradis about the thoroughness of the Nexen under Chapter 11–and we paid over $10 million in damages. the argument, cutting Premier Danny Williams off at the knees. review with zero relevance to my question. The summary on the The reality is that for the company to win in the Chapter 11 claim Williams was left looking like a Canadian version of Hugo Chavez. The idea that decisions by municipal, provincial and federal Capital Regional District government can result in multi-million dollar payments to multinational corporations is quite distressing. As Steven North Galiano Island Fire Hall Referendum Shrybman, lawyer for Council of Canadians, has said, ‘Chapter 11 is fundamentally corrosive of democracy.’ Notice Of Application to Volunteer as a Scrutineer & Advance Voter Registration This outrage only gets more outrageous if the claims for multiple millions in damages come not from a private corporation, but from corporations which are branches of a Public notice is hereby given that the assent of the electors is required with regard to: foreign government. In the case of China, the FIPPA could mean

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The boys in However, with increased knowledge and scientific advancement in Save On Home Building the picture are standing in the newly created spawning and rearing salmonids enhancement, we have a future for this magnificent Just as ambitious folk are starting to plan their spring channel that is a work in progress nurtured by a reliable source of keystone species. builds, Trafalgar Homes announced its Fall HSTSavings groundwater that runs into the lower channel of Brooklyn Creek. Looking up a suitable definition for ‘keystone species’, I settled Event, and a promise to beat any package price! The design layout and current work of the channel was done by on the concept that salmon are important keystones for the arches If you are waiting for the HST to be eliminated in Rupert Wong and his environmental consulting company. The of life that depend on the streams, lakes, rivers, estuaries and April (even with the Government’s interim rebate funding for the work was provided jointly by the Pacific Salmon marine waters of the Strait of Georgia and beyond. For the past 25 program in effect), you don’t have to wait that long. Foundation (40%) and the Town of Comox Parks Department years over 35,000 volunteers have spent huge amounts of energy Trafalgar is now offering 12% off the package portion (60%). and money to rebuild and assure a future for our precious seven of your build, and will offer you the best price The channel is about 140-meters-long and contains spawning races of pacific salmon in hundreds of enhancement projects. The available in the market today. ‘Bring us any quote on gravel and equally important stillwater pools protected with genetically-defined pacific salmon species are: pink, chinook, any package deal and we will beat it,’ says Nadine. submerged logs, referred to as woody debris. With a constant sockeye, coho, chum, steelhead trout, and cutthroat trout (as Looks like it’s time to do away with the HST! (See supply of groundwater throughout the year, it will provide a place outlined in the Keystone Species Magazine). Trafalgar’s ad, page 3.) 0 for coho salmon to spawn. After the little salmon emerge from the The title of Riddell’s article, ‘Everything is One’ comes from a gravel nursery, they can live and grow for a year in the small deeper First Nations belief system. As he notes, this is such a simple Did you appreciate this edition of Island Tides? Phone in this year’s $28 voluntary subscription: 250.629.3660 pools of the channel before they smolt and go out to sea for two expression of ‘ecosystem-based management’ used in modern (Visa/MC accepted). Thank you for your support! more years. 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OctoberBrian Crumblehulme Garden Calendar A building that ignores its context is crazy, because it lacks a crucial ingredient—meaning. —Witold Rybczynski ontrary to popular mythology, cognitive science has pine trees along the slope. If what you are screening or framing demonstrated that we are not rational. Most of our is the forest, then a careful selection of native plants and varietals beliefs, understandings, attitudes and decisions are can support the distant view and soften the near view with intuitive.C That is, they arise as a direct result of experience trying minimal intrusion. to make sense of the world. We rationalize after the fact— October and November are the ideal times for planting trees philosophers call it justification. At home, in the garden, at work and bushes as it gives them time to establish a root system, and and while driving a backroad, we absorb the landscape simply the winter rains are far more effective than your efforts with a by looking at it. There it becomes entrenched in our limbic bucket and hose. Finally, before making any decisions about cortex, forever informing how we think and how we react to food planting trees, walk around the site and look at it from every on the plate, the CBCnews and oncoming vehicles. It is essential possible angle and distance to ensure you have the optimum then that the inside of our home is comforting, supportive and location because once a tree is established, it grows. reflects our beliefs, values and culture. The entrance to our home If sunshine is what you thrive on, try planting a few drifts of and the picture view from each window likewise set us up for daffodils, symbolic suns. The shorter alpine varieties will flower ‘coming home’ or making the next decision. As Yi-Fu Tuan says first in late February-March, while the classic Alfred varieties will in Topophilia, we construct a ‘mental world to mediate between brighten up your life for weeks in the rainy days of March-April. ourselves and external reality…in order to feel at home in nature.’ In this season of mellow fruitfullness, our dinner often Call it a survival technique. consists of bread, tomatoes, cheese, a glass of wine, and a bowl Framing a personal space is a modern idea. It goes back to the of fruit with coffee. With such a late, wet spring and later dry early 17th century, with the invention of the theatrical stage and summer there is still a lot of fruit to be had: excellent plums, In the garden at Harbour House Hotel, Salt Spring Island. the window. Invented by architect Inigo Jones, the proscenium apples, berries and green tomatoes. 0 arch (and curtains) framed the stage. The window (also given curtains), invented in France, framed the view looking both ways. h h Serious about food on SSI Nowadays we take it for granted that the view from the deck and Fall For Fresh Flavours Sara Miles the glimpse into a lighted room are scenes of nature and of Cod With Plum he historic Harbour House Hotel on Salt Spring Island someone else’s life. Thus the placement of every feature in the Bake fresh cod, basted with canola & ground black pepper, then is excited to announce new programs and tours this fall, add sauce: house and garden also become subsumed into our worldview. In advancing their efforts to operate sustainably. After G Gently fry until transparent: ½ cup chopped onion, 2-3 chopped this sense, it is true that ‘the world is a stage.’ participatingT in the Salt Spring Farm Tour on September 29- garlic cloves, 2-3 tsp canola. Standing in front of the kitchen window, what do you see? I 30, the next new program, in October, will focus on wild edible suggest the kitchen window because we often spend more time G Add: ½ lb stoned plums (damson or Italian), ground chili to taste, pinch of salt, chopped parsley. mushroom collecting. Following that, there will be workshops there than looking out the livingroom window. If the view is about winter gardens, seed saving, medicinal plants and organic gratifying, you have done the right thing. You are looking at the G Stir and cook gently until soft. G Pour half the sauce over the fish, sprinkle with toasted pine nuts pesticides. forest, the rose garden or that shiny new truck you just bought. Harbour House is unique in the way it does business, If you would rather not look at the view from your kitchen and serve immediately. Serve remaining sauce in a bowl. Grilled Pumpkin featuring an organic farm right behind the hotel, complete with window because it reminds you of the garbage that needs Cut a small ripe pumpkin into thin slices (giant Hallowe’en ones goats. When owner Jack Woodward purchased the hotel, sorting or the neighbour’s collection of tires, then do something tend to be tasteless). Pat dry and place on a buttered baking sheet. restaurant and farm, he and his wife brought the gardens back about it. Sort the damn garbage or plant an oak tree. Mix together fresh grated Parmesan, chopped parsley, chopped from a state of neglect, and now they are producing enough to In the English school of landscape gardening they have the garlic and black pepper with a little lime juice, some cornflakes feed their guests. term ‘zone of influence,’ which is simply the area over which you and enough sour cream to bind it together. Oil the pumpkin slices Chef Nate Catto and farmer Rob Scheres work together year- can exert some control. If you do not like to look at the forest, and cover with the mixture. Bake at 375º for about 30min until round to accommodate the menu, depending on the season. move. If the neighbour’s garbage is an eyesore, then bribe her pumpkin is just soft and topping crisp. Serve hot with lime ‘The idea is to make this place able to get out of bringing produce with a bottle of wine or plant a cedar hedge; the first is cheaper wedges, sour cream and… from California, New Zealand, et cetera, and grow our own on- and quicker. Green Tomato Chutney site, and be able to maintain that in a way that is sustainable for Speaking of hedges: there is one thing worse than creating a 3½ lbs chopped green/under-ripe tomatoes, 1 lb chopped onion, this planet,’ explained Tania Aguila, Program Director for prison with steel posts and wire netting, and that is a row of 1 lb golden raisins, 1 cup grated green apple, 3 cups sugar, 1 cup Harbour House. identical young trees treated like military recruits planted too apple cider, ½ cup grated ginger, salt, pepper, cayenne. As the largest accommodation provider on Salt Spring, close together as though they were on parade. Screening a shed Gently simmer all the ingredients in a heavy skillet for about Harbour House accepts group bookings too. There is a board or shaping a view with trees and bushes is a very effective way 1hr, stirring occasionally. Add a cup of chopped mint leaves and room available, but even if you head there on a work trip, the return to low heat for a few minutes more. of suggesting control. But do it with mixed plantings of different beautiful harbour view will make it seem not like work! Serve hot and fresh, or can in sterilized jars. Place in a hot species with various colours and textures. Bear in mind that they As we head into this century of people growing more of their water bath and steam for another 10 minutes. They should keep will look quite different in winter if they are deciduous. Unless own food, and avoiding toxic pesticides, Harbour House is ‘a for six months but in our house we eat them a lot sooner. you are very tight for space, screens need not be in a straight great example of how a business can make money, not at the line; even the Parthenon looks better for an accidental drift of cost of the environment,’ says Aguila. 0 2013 Conference Island Studies: West Coast Canada & Beyond By Islanders, For Islanders, About Islanders and Islands

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