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GulfGulf Islands’Islands’ Every Day Is Giving The Coast A Community Voice For 27 Years Earth Day! Volume 29 Number 7 April 13 - April 26, 2017 Online Voluntary Annual Subscription: $30 Rally to end the grizzly bear trophy hunt gathered at the Legislature in Victoria on April 1. Photo: Jim Hebert There’sThere’s tonstons ofof water—isn’twater—isn’t there?there? n April, Maude Barlow gave talks in five BC advisories, and the effects of deforestation and Trans Mountain pipeline, the Site C dam, Nestlé cities on the water crisis and the upcoming climate change. This will be the defining issue of the and other bottled water takings, like in the Elora provincial election. Courtenay, Nanaimo, coming decade, and most of us have no idea that it community, the Water Sustainability Act, fracking IVictoria, Williams Lake and Kamloops got to hear is on our very own doorstep.’ and Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminals, the passionate and well-informed ‘My book is a cry from mining projects like the Ajax Mine, trade Barlow speak. the heart,’ she says, ‘It is agreements like NAFTA, drinking water advisories One of the world’s foremost time to abandon our in First Nations, and the impacts of gutted federal water activists, Maude Barlow has erroneous beliefs that water legislation on waterways in BC.’ been on the front lines of the Canada has unlimited ‘Maude Barlow is one of our planet’s greatest planet’s water crises for the past 20 supplies of water, that water defenders,’ says Naomi Klein, author of This years. An expert on the subject, she Canadians have taken care Changes Everythingand The Shock Doctrine. ‘This has worked with governments and of this water heritage or book has all the facts, forceful analysis, and moral organizations around the world to that we still have lots of clarity that Canadians will need to wake up and join protect this most precious resource. time to do so. this most urgent of struggles.’ Last September Barlow’s ‘We need a strong, Barlow is the national chairperson of the Council eighteenth book, Boiling Point: national plan of action of Canadians and Washington-based Food and Government Neglect, Corporate based on a new water ethic Water Watch, a councillor for the World Future Abuse, and Canada’s Water Crisis, that puts water protection Council, a board member for a number of was published. Last November, she and water justice at the influential organizations and has previously acted gave an enlightening and inspiring heart of all our policies and as Senior Advisor on Water to the 63rd President talk at the Shoal Centre in Sidney. laws. The path forward is of the UN General Assembly. Her work has earned Barlow says, ‘In this book I lay clear, if not simple. her an impressive 14 honorary doctorates and bare the issues facing Canada’s water reserves, ‘Water is one of the most important issues of our numerous awards and recognitions. including long-outdated water laws, unmapped time and should be front and centre in BC’s May 9 To read Boiling Point: Government Neglect, and unprotected groundwater reserves, agricultural election. Corporate Abuse, and Canada’s Water Crisis, pollution, industrial-waste dumping, boil-water ‘Pressing water topics include Kinder Morgan’s Maude Barlow, ECW Press, CLICK HErE. 0 www.islandtides.com Page 2, Island Tides, April 13, 2017 MusicMusic ofof thethe SpheresSpheres Sara de Rose ver the course of many years, things (the International Council of I’ve created a music theory Near Eastern Archaeomusicology: teaching wheel that teaches ICONEA, CLICK HERE). Oscales, chords and composition using The director of ICONEA simple patterns, allowing music responded, saying that my work theory to be understood rather than provides ‘the missing link between learned by rote. linear and circular concepts, and also Several months ago, I came across the link between Mesopotamian and an image of a 3,000-year-old Greek constructions during the Orientalising period (800-600 BC)’, and inviting me to present a paper at the University of London, England. With generous fundraising support from my home islands of Lasqueti and Hornby, I accepted the invitation and have recently returned. My paper shows how the star on the tablet is derived from the study of Babylonian cuneiform tablet that simple musical ratios and also how it shows a non-symmetrical 7-pointed relates to the structure of the major star that archaeologists are certain is scale. Moreover, my paper shows that related to Babylonian music theory. the 7-day week is also based on the When I saw the star, I recognized it as same pattern: it is for this reason that something that I, myself, had drawn the 3rd century roman historian 15-years-ago, in an attempt to Cassius Dio described the days of the understand the origin of the patterns week as being ‘in a kind of musical on my music wheel. connection with the arrangement of the heavens’. In fact, the star lies at the heart of the ancient tradition of the music of Photo: Priscilla Ewbank the spheres, a tradition that gave the Shades of winter gold. Odonata Pond as the weather slowly warms up. numbers of music the highest importance and applied these numbers, metaphorically, to describe questions: What is the origin of the The workshop is designed for the entire cosmos. major scale? What is the origin of the people who have no previous musical I have designed a two-hour week? Why is the octave divided into experience, but it is also engaging for So, I wrote a description of where, workshop in which participants create twelve notes? Why are some notes the accomplished musician. The according to me, the star originates their own models of the star on the named using sharps and flats? What workshop is not only stimulating but and what it can be used for and sent it tablet, developing an understanding is the ancient tradition of the music of fun. to some of the people who study these that sheds light on the following the spheres? For more info, CLICK HERE. 0 Lifelong learning billion in 2020/21, to allow schools and school schools with the greatest need and increasing local districts to invest in every child and prepare autonomy regarding funding priorities and The new idea that people will be continually students for the emerging economy, and to invest distribution. changing their roles in the world of work, and that in innovation and technology. • Alleviating the burden of student debt: therefore, education and training will need a major • $10 million per year for free adult basic • Implement needs-based grants for post- overhaul, is much talked about these days. education. secondary students. BC Greens have made it a plank in their platform. • Investing $35 million in nutrition and physical • Offer tax forgiveness of up to $2,000 a year for The strategy includes early childhood education, activity programs to promote learning readiness, up to five years to assist qualifying graduates to child care, public education, postsecondary and improve student health. repay outstanding debt incurred for tuition fees. education and adult learning. • Funding for professional development for • Set up a task force on post-secondary education Key components of the BC Greens’ strategy public school teachers: funding with a mandate to identify ways to make include: • Invest $140 million over three years to train post-secondary education more relevant, accessible • Investing in early childhood education: teachers to deliver the new curriculum. and affordable. The task force will present its report • Up to 25 hours free early childhood education • Work with indigenous leaders, teachers, by July 2018. per week for three- and four-year-olds; universities and colleges to develop policies and • Investing $65 million over four years to • Free daycare for working parents with children strategies to attract highly qualified teachers to the support co-op and work experience under three; profession, and support recruitment and retention. programs for high school and • Up to $500 per month for families with Special attention will be paid to increasing the undergraduate students. children under three and a stay at home parent. number of indigenous teachers. • Allocating up to $10 million per year for • Investing in public education to prepare • Reviewing the funding model for the K-12 in-service skills training for workers in British Columbians for the emerging public education system with a view to small and medium-sized enterprises; and, economy: ensuring equitable access for students: retraining for those displaced by • Increase funding for public schools, beginning This will address targeting funding to public automation or changing markets. 0 in 2017/18 at $220 million and rising to $1.46 Butler Gravel & BRING YOUR RECYCLABLES TO US… Concrete…Better We’ll take anything with a from the ground up! deposit for a full refund. 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