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Photo: Henny Schnare, www.henny.ca Determined to partake of a picnic, Steller’s jay attempts to unbuckle pack to get at the goodies. Greens strongly endorse leader Elizabeth Sockeye inquiry proliferating Sara Miles May and talk policy In one year, we seem to have gone from not after Brian Riddell’s July resignation) At the Canadian Green Party national ‘poly-sexual’ relationships received weak enough sockeye to too many. Last year’s recommended the areas of research. It has convention in Toronto on August 21-22, 40% support. runs were critically low, while this year’s been decided that a peer review model ‘will party leader Elizabeth May received a Seniors received significant attention, user groups are frustrated by low quotas best serve the commission’s science ringing endorsement—85% support—from with resolutions proposing a UN when the run is much larger than expected. program going forward,’ said Brian Wallace, party members, voting online from across Convention on the rights of older persons, Will we ever understand how to manage this senior commission counsel. Canada. May is a resident of Sidney, and the supporting a national dementia strategy for fishery? The government is trying to answer The research projects will include studies Green Party candidate for Saanich–Gulf sufferers and caregivers, and urging this question with the Cohen Commission of sockeye habitat, diseases and parasites; Islands in the next federal election. consideration of older persons in emergency of Inquiry into the Decline of Sockeye the effects of human activities, Members also voted to change the and climate-change planning. Closely Salmon in the Fraser River. The contaminants, salmon farms and predators existing four-year fixed leadership term to a related were resolutions seeking Commission was established by Prime on the fish; the freshwater and marine process that required members to vote in independent trust structures for registered Minister Harper in November 2009 after a ecology, and the status of the fish in these support of the party leader within six pension plans and reform of long term public outcry regarding the collapse of last environments. There will also be a review of months after a federal election. This passed disability insurance legislation. year’s Fraser River sockeye salmon runs. all published evidence for climate-change with a 74% majority, thus avoiding a Greens supported an elected Senate, with The Commission, whose role includes and climate-related effects on the sockeye. leadership contest at the convention. proportional representation, and also a developing recommendations for Other projects will investigate and evaluate But the real work of the convention proportion of senate seats reserved for improving the future sustainability of the the fisheries management, and analyze the concerned a plethora of policy resolutions, aboriginals. sockeye salmon fishery, is finally getting ability of the Department of Fisheries and each of which had to receive 60% to pass. They also supported amendments to the underway with the majority of its Oceans to meet its stated management They covered a full spectrum of serious Divorce Act which would ensure an investigation into the reasons for the decline objectives relative to Fraser sockeye. Canadian issues, and were much debated. automatic assumption of equal rights and of Fraser River sockeye. Public hearings A final research project will synthesize Some of the hot topics proved to be the responsibilities for both parents. only recently started; the evidentiary and analyze all the data in the other 11 treatment of seniors; strengthening A resolution supporting the development hearings have been delayed; and the technical reports. legislation concerning pensions and long of a high speed rail network between major Commission just announced several The researchers, whose names have not term disability benefits; Senate reform; Canadian centres received 90% support; a ambitious research projects. yet been published, are expected to provide rebalancing relations between the federal proposal for ‘Green Bonds’ to finance On August 17, the Commission said they progress reports by mid-November and and provincial governments; new carbon renewable energy facilities received 83.8%. determined a need for 12 external research final reports by January 31, 2011. emissions targets, laws, and taxes; There were many other resolutions. The projects ‘to help the Commissioner Conservative MP John Cummins is implementation of the precautionary Green Party requires member votes to be [Honourable Bruce Cohen] understand the critical of the Commission, saying that the principle; and high speed rail. ratified by the convention, and all those science behind the decline of Fraser River Inquiry’s terms of reference ‘do not call for A resolution, which received much receiving a 60% approval or more were sockeye’. The six-scientist Scientific a detailed scientific research program’. media attention, seeking to decriminalize ratified. 0 Advisory Panel (now a five-scientist panel, COHEN COMISSION, please turn to page 3

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Like a couple of the Tamil women just arrived, my mom 250-656-1334 was pregnant with me. My parents did not seek advance permission from the Canadian government to immigrate. They did not fill out any paperwork before arriving. And they could no more seek permission to leave from their home government than these Tamils could, for what they fax: 250-656-0443 Website: www.mblabs.com were doing was, as far as the US was concerned, illegal and Email: [email protected] would result in my father’s arrest. 2062 Unit 4 Henry Ave. West, Sidney, B.C. V8L 5Y1 Of course that’s the thing about being an asylum-seeker —you don’t get into a queue. When you’ve got to go, you’ve got to go. Hell, my folks didn’t even know that Montreal (where they landed) was a predominantly French-speaking city. Betty Fry (nee Wooster), long-time resident of Mayne AT POINT ATKINSON So they just showed up. The difference, however, was Island and our dear mother, grandmother, great- SEPTEMBER that in those days, they got landed immigrant status in 20 grandmother, great-great grandmother, and mother-in- Day Time Ht./ft. Ht./m. Day Time Ht./ft. Ht./m. minutes at the airport. Over the course of the Vietnam War, law, passed peacefully away August 24 at Sunnybank 0418 4.9 1.5 0530 14.1 4.3 about 100,000 American war resisters came to Canada Centre in Oliver, BC in the care of kind staff and the 1 1211 12.5 3.8 9 1140 4.9 1.5 (many with less formal education than my folks and thus company of devoted family. WE 1617 11.5 3.5 TH 1756 15.4 4.7 2119 13.1 4.0 unlikely to score particularly well under today’s immigration Born in 1916 to a New Westminster pioneer family 0518 4.6 1.4 0024 4.9 1.5 point-system). that settled on the Fraser River in 1858, Betty gave us life 2 1334 13.1 4.0 10 0631 14.1 4.3 But those aren’t the only numeric comparisons I find and showed us how to love it and the islands in the gulf. TH 1751 11.8 3.6 FR 1224 6.2 1.9 2215 12.8 3.9 1828 15.4 4.7 curious. Betty is pictured sketching on Saturna’s Mount Fisher 0624 4.3 1.3 0110 3.9 1.2 Among the common reactions to the arrival of the MV on the Fry property, later donated by her family to the 3 1436 13.5 4.1 11 0734 13.8 4.2 Gulf Islands National Park Reserve. A poem, written by FR 1928 11.8 3.6 SA 1310 7.9 2.4 Sun Sea is the proposition that Canada’s alleged lax 2332 12.8 3.9 1901 15.1 4.6 immigration laws make us a global sucker—a target for Betty years ago from her home overlooking Active Pass, 0731 3.6 1.1 0157 3.3 1.0 many of the world’s migrants. This is an absurd notion. folllows. We shall miss her. 4 1521 13.8 4.2 12 0843 13.8 4.2 On Waking SA 2034 11.2 3.4 SU 1401 9.2 2.8 World conflicts, environmental disasters, and a global 1937 14.8 4.5 economic system that keeps billions impoverished has Good morning world — 0057 13.1 4.0 0246 3.3 1.0 resulted in millions upon millions of refugees and displaced This new day another gift 5 0831 3.3 1.0 13 0958 13.8 4.2 In my brief share of infinite time. SU 1557 14.4 4.4 MO 1501 10.2 3.1 people. In Pakistan alone, the current flooding has produced 2124 10.2 3.1 2015 13.8 4.2 upwards of 14 million internally displaced people. Globally, Sound sleep, a taste of death, 0217 13.5 4.1 0340 3.6 1.1 according to the UN, there are over 43 million ‘forcibly gives day a zest 6 0924 3.0 0.9 14 1116 13.5 4.1 MO 1628 14.8 4.5 TU 1617 11.2 3.4 displaced people,’ of which about 15 million are refugees. no restless night can bring. 2210 9.2 2.8 2059 13.1 4.0 The vast majority of these globally displaced people are Good morning tree — 0327 13.8 4.2 0439 3.9 1.2 not being absorbed by wealthy countries, but rather 7 1012 3.3 1.0 15 1233 13.8 4.2 Your russet branches warming in the sun, TU 1656 15.1 4.6 WE 1754 11.2 3.4 internally or by neighbouring poor countries—the places Holding your gift of bright berries 2254 7.5 2.3 2156 12.5 3.8 least able to afford the costs and with the bleakest economic for hungry birds, and all who look, 0430 14.1 4.3 0544 4.6 1.4 8 1057 3.9 1.2 16 1344 13.8 4.2 prospects. The number of refugees accepted by Canada has to wonder at WE 1726 15.1 4.6 TH 1928 10.8 3.3 declined in recent years, and last year we accepted fewer against the changing sky. 2339 6.2 1.9 2315 11.8 3.6 than 20,000—a drop in the global bucket, just over 0.1% of Good morning surf — ADD ONE HOUR FOR DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME global refugees. Surely, when a few hundred people arrive Softly today you whisper on our shores, we can afford to treat these people with of rainy days to come respect and grant them due process. No shaking crash to send logs pounding Here’s another curious comparison: The real and much when Squamish winds whip sea to foam more significant Canadian immigration story of recent years and sky to crackling blue. (at least measured numerically) isn’t about refugees or AT FULFORD HARBOUR Good morning Man — people arriving by boats. It’s about the explosion in SEPTEMBER The peaceful hand of sleep temporary foreign workers. The number of temporary Day Time Ht./ft. Ht./m. Day Time Ht./ft. Ht./m. still smooths your brow. foreign workers coming into Canada each year now exceeds Sleep on a while 0345 3.3 1.0 0455 9.8 3.0 200,000, and now surpasses the number of immigrants. 1 1243 9.2 2.8 9 1049 4.3 1.3 in these warm folds. WE 1518 8.9 2.7 WE 1726 10.8 3.3 But the Harper government hasn’t been sounding the Life’s burdens soon enough will plough 2014 9.8 3.0 2339 3.9 1.2 alarm about this. On the contrary, the federal government their furrows. 0444 3.0 0.9 0607 9.8 3.0 has been promoting and facilitating the massive growth in 2 1358 9.5 2.9 10 1133 5.2 1.6 Sleep now. TH 1656 9.5 2.9 FR 1753 10.8 3.3 this category of migrants. Why? Because unlike regular 2057 9.8 3.0 immigrants and refugees, these workers are being Good morning God. 0547 2.6 0.8 0027 3.3 1.0 specifically requested by employers, their indentured status 3 1445 9.8 3.0 11 0720 9.5 2.9 granted the full rights of citizenship. FR 1853 9.5 2.9 SA 1220 6.6 2.0 makes them unable to exercise key employment rights and 2214 9.8 3.0 1821 10.8 3.3 With the explosion of temporary workers and tightening leaves them highly vulnerable to exploitation and unsafe 0650 2.3 0.7 0117 2.6 0.8 of regular immigration admissions, the government is conditions, and they are unable to make the same claims to 4 1520 10.2 3.1 12 0836 9.5 2.9 effectively saying, ‘that deal is off—we’re happy to have SA 1959 9.2 2.8 SU 1312 7.5 2.3 the social and economic rights that Canadians take for 2344 9.8 3.0 1852 10.5 3.2 temporary indentured labour, but don’t think you can be a granted. 0747 2.0 0.6 0209 2.3 0.7 Canadian.’ Immigration is central to the story of Canada. Waves of 5 1549 10.2 3.1 13 0959 9.8 3.0 When my parents arrived in the 1960s, a small minority SU 2044 8.5 2.6 MO 1415 8.2 2.5 people came to this country, mostly to meet a domestic need 1925 10.2 3.1 in Canada were keen to label the Vietnam war resisters all for labour, and sometimes fleeing harm and conflict. But 0107 9.8 3.0 0303 2.3 0.7 manner of unwelcome labels, much as the Canadian 6 0837 2.0 0.6 14 1123 9.8 3.0 historically, once people arrived, either as immigrants or MO TU government is currently doing with respect to the Tamil 1615 10.5 3.2 1540 8.9 2.7 refugees, they were upon landing met with a social contract: 2125 7.5 2.3 2002 9.8 3.0 asylum-seekers today, quickly labeling them as terrorists, 0226 9.8 3.0 0402 2.6 0.8 they could avail themselves of the social and economic 7 0923 2.3 0.7 15 1241 10.2 3.1 rights Canadians enjoyed, and in a few years could be TAMIL REFUGEES, please turn to page 14 TU 1638 10.5 3.2 WE 1740 8.9 2.7 2208 6.2 1.9 2047 9.2 2.8 0342 9.8 3.0 0507 3.0 0.9 8 1006 3.0 0.9 16 1344 10.2 3.1 TU 1702 10.5 3.2 TH 1924 8.5 2.6 2252 5.2 1.6 2154 8.9 2.7 ADD ONE HOUR FOR DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME A Truly Island Home Tide Table Courtesy of Durable dock systems for exposed locations Build your Dream • Build it Green Ross Walker 250-537-9710 • Prefab custom home packages • Qualified builders available • Visit one of our island show homes • Off grid options On Time & On Budget Email: [email protected] www.islandmarine.ca 866-352-5503 www.mandalahomes.com [email protected] When is a loss a profit? ISLAND TIDES, Sept 2, 2010, Page 3 Auditor General questions BC Hydro accounting Patrick Brown The provincial Auditor-General has questioned BC Hydro’s use of ‘rate-regulated’ accounting and the consolidation of the resulting reported revenues into the provincial accounts. BC Hydro’s various cost deferrals, many resulting from provincial cabinet ‘Special Directions’, have had the effect of changing BC Hydro’s operating loss of $249 million into a profit of $447 million for fiscal 2010—an adjustment of $696 million. This is $696 million that otherwise would have to have been added to the provincial budget deficit. Why BC Hydro is Losing Money Over the past few years, BC Hydro has experienced a reduction in provincial electricity consumption, drastic reductions in trading revenues, lower water flows in its hydroelectric facilities, increased electricity purchase quantities (at higher costs per unit) from independent power producers (IPPs), and a massive capital program. It is borrowing large amounts of money. BC Hydro is also restricted as to how much it can increase its electricity rates to the consumer because its ‘return on equity’ is limited by the BC Utilities Commission to a percentage equivalent to what BCUC allows to the nearest privately owned utility, Terasen Gas. (BCUC sets domestic electricity prices in its decision on the annual ‘Revenue Requirements Application’ (RRA) made by BC Hydro). In addition, BC Hydro has been required by the provincial government to take on massive liabilities (estimated at $30-50 billion) for ‘take or pay’ contracts with IPPs, now and long into the future. Indications are that while the current spot market price for electricity is around $60/per MWh, BC Hydro is contracting for new IPP power at rates around $133.80 for firm power, and $76.20 for non-firm, or intermittent, power. And in fiscal year 2010, which ended March 31, 2010, BC Hydro got 16% of its power from IPPs. In the fiscal year ending March 31, 2010, BC Hydro incurred operational losses in four major operations categories: Heritage Power, Non-Heritage Power, BC Transmission Co, and Trade Income (the largest, over $200 million). It is not clear whether these losses resulted from lower revenues than forecast, or from higher costs. But in all four, Special Directions from the provincial cabinet required that the losses be deferred. the Auditor General’s Concerns The Auditor General expressed two main concerns with this Denman eagle pair in their nest. Photo: Dennis Forsyth form of bookkeeping. The first is that the BC Utilities Commission authorizes the use of ‘regulatory’ deferral Accounting Board to transition to International Financial accounts to ‘defer and amortize over a number of years Reporting Standards (IFRS) effective January 1, 2011. COHEN COMMMISSION from page 1 those costs that would otherwise have to be expensed in one Current IFRS standards do not allow for the use of rate Public Input year.’ He notes: ‘…the government is also able to give special regulated accounting. Under current IFRS, BC Hydro would Meanwhile, public fora are taking place. The first hearing in direction to the utilities commission that can affect the have to expense many of the transactions it now accounts Lillooet on August 18 had about 100 people in attendance. profitability of the regulated entities.’ for as rate-regulated assets.’ (The IFRS rules may change. The other forum locations and dates are: Campbell River The second concern is that: although current Canadian The most recent IFRS draft would provide for the use of (Aug 25); Prince Rupert (Sept 1); Steveston (Sept 13); accounting standards allow the use of ‘rate regulated’ regulatory accounts.) Victoria (Sept 16); New Westminster (Sept 20); Prince accounting only until the end of December, ‘The provincial He indicates his concern about the provincial George (Sept 23); Chilliwack (Sept 29); and Kamloops (Oct. government recently amended the Budget Transparency government’s ability to choose whatever accounting 21). Any member of the public who wants to speak at a and Accountability Act effective April 1, 2010…. This could standards they prefer: ‘We will monitor whether or not result in the government choosing to use rate regulated forum must apply in advance. Application forms are at government uses the legislated amendments to the Budget www.cohencommission.ca. The Commission is asking accounting, even beyond 2013.’ Transparency and Accountability Act to re-define GAAP speakers to consider the following five questions: The Auditor General reports that he has been examining (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, the current • What is your vision for the sustainability of Fraser the impact of the regulatory accounts on BC Hydro’s standard) in the provincial government reporting entity.’ earnings totals. He also notes that ‘BC Hydro also holds He concludes: ‘It is also common practice for an sockeye? unamortized net regulatory assets of $1,713 million. These organization to consult its auditors when the organization • What is required to secure the future of Fraser sockeye? regulatory assets are, in effect, expenses that have been is contemplating changing its accounting policies. We • What are the major habitat issues for Fraser sockeye deferred to future years.’ request that the government consult with the Auditor and how can these be mitigated? International Financial reporting General before implementing any significant accounting • How can Fraser sockeye be effectively harvested? Standards changes.’ • How can citizens participate in the recovery of Fraser The Auditor-General goes on to say: ‘BC Hydro and other A special report on BC Hydro’s accounting practices will sockeye? commercial Crown corporations are government business appear in the next edition of Island Tides. 0 Transcripts of all public forums will be listed on the enterprises and as such are required by the Public Sector Commission’s web site. 0

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Toby Snelgrove, Julie Johnston, Dennis Forsyth, Seth Klein At first, I bit hard. Yes, we of the lovely Gulf Islands Independent, peer-reviewed science has recorded Pené Hollingworth, Sara Miles, Peter Lamb, Peter Easthope Archipelago are surely more responsible than the benighted disastrous declines in the number of wild salmon in the Nicole Mouner, Kathy Shabada, Ron Watts, Paul S White urbanites. Even gave myself a little pat on the back! And presence of open-net cage fish farms worldwide. Fish farms Tel: 250-629-3660 • Fax: 250-629-3838 biting, I was comforted to think I can find myself amongst are feedlots as they rear as many fish as possible in as small Email:[email protected] & [email protected] the more advanced, having spent many irresponsible years a space as possible. We know feedlots stimulate pathogens working and raising my family in East Vancouver, amongst to multiply and fish farms are no different. 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Independent, peer-reviewed trail Blazing Keeping Our Firefighters Safe science has also documented the transmission of the Dear Editor: Dear Editor: Infectious Hermatopoietic Necrosis (IHN) virus through On August 14, the Friends of Strathcona Park (FOSP) When I came to live on this small island, 19 years ago, I the ocean from fish farm to fish farm where wild salmon are started building a trail up the Bedwell Valley in an effort to came, not to Saturna, but to escape from a large city. traveling, particularly in the ‘wild salmon narrows’—the stop the government from granting a park use permit to a Cities, I fear, become unliveable when the inhabitants do Discovery Passage Islands around Campbell River, BC. resort which wants to run a high impact commercial horse not readily know each other. On this small island I found We need DFO to implement very clear regulations for operation in the park. After a battle which has lasted close the caring community I had lost as I grew up—and my city open-net cage fish farms on our coastline. The regulations need to ensure that the fish farming industry demonstrates to six years, the government appears to be preparing to outgrew me. that their management practices do not impact the wild grant the permit, despite the fact that the overwhelming For me the epitome of this caring is seen in its volunteer salmon as they migrate past the farms; they have enough majority of people who attended public consultation fire department. The members, from divergent and difficulties facing them. However, your proposed meetings was against it. interesting pasts, volunteer together to secure their regulations currently up for public review do not achieve The Master Plan was created by the public in 1993, and neighbours’ futures. They know that it is far more likely that this because in particular they do not require the farms to has worked extremely well since then, until the government their neighbour’s property is more vulnerable than their sample wild salmon fry passing by the farms on their out- decided to change it last year to allow the application by the own. They have had the training, and their homes are migration, and compare their lice and pathogen counts to resort. In a excerpt from Parks communications, which was secure. Yet they risk everything for that neighbour. those on the wild salmon fry that have not had contact with blanked out (redacted) in the original FOI package received Everything. the farms. It also appears that disease/virus reporting will by FOSP, Nancy Wilkin, then Assistant Deputy Minister of The injury and fatality rate of volunteer firefighters is far be inconsistent and on a site-by-site basis—as terms and Parks, wrote ‘I read the letter against this and it was really too high. They are hampered by fighting fire in homes surrounded by acres of trees. They cannot be trained as conditions of a licence. There is no reason for individual ‘rich’ versus ‘poor.’ Please work with Clayoquot resort to disease reporting standards per site/licence as wild salmon make this happen.’ intensely as full-time professionals. They do not have access to necessary equipment more readily available in cities. But travel all the waterways where salmon farms now exist. This excerpt, dated August 2006, implies strongly what You are offering the public of Canada no commitment to the government position was, before they decided to ask for they have heart. When I watched the fire department’s copy of ensure that the fish farms demonstrate that they are not public input (which they then ignored), and it also seems to harming the wild salmon by the transmission of sea lice, or ‘Remember Charlie,’ I was moved to tears. This gentle man strongly suggest that Wilkin had little understanding of the the various other parasites, viruses and bacteria like IHN reaches so many in his attempt to keep us all safe. His life real question, which had absolutely nothing to do with ‘rich’ and Vibrio. This disease information is vital to understand and his film remind us vividly to work within the safety or ‘poor,’ but everything to do with the government opening what is happening to our wild stocks. The department also training and guides we are so often tempted to ignore. the way for highly intrusive commercial activities in needs to ensure public access to this information. We do not I believe ‘Remember Charlie’ to be effective in training Strathcona Park. see your proposed aquaculture regulations protecting our our young firefighter volunteers to work safe. That will bring The Strathcona Park Master Plan stresses minimal investment in the $1.5 billion nature-based tourism them back from their hazardous job. That will bring them human impact, and a commercial horse operation is most industry. DFO needs to bring in more stringent monitoring back to their families and to us. Thank you Charlie definitely not minimal human impact, and particularly not regulations to replace the voluntary and discretionary Morecraft, ordinary guy, extraordinary story. in a Pacific coast rainforest valley. reporting currently enjoyed by the salmon farming industry. Graeme Bregani, Saturna Volunteer Fire Dept (retired) By building a low impact trail, the Friends hope to show It is imperative that we act now to develop and enforce Ed’s Note: Charlie Morecroft is a former safety officer who that high impact, hugely expensive and intrusive operations regulations that protect wild salmon whilst we still have suffered 50% burns to his body in 1980. He now gives talks by commercial concerns are not necessary in Strathcona, some wild salmon returning to our coast, rather than and creates safety videos. For more information or a copy and not wanted by the thousands of people who love the waiting until the fish are gone, taking our livelihoods with of the DVD Remember Charlie, contact Audrey March, park and truly appreciate it for what it is. them. If we get a good run of Fraser River sockeye this year, Director of Operation, Charlie Morecraft and Associates The first segment of the Bedwell to Buttle Trail, which is we will know the rivers and the ocean are still working. We at [email protected]. part of the FOSP ‘Take Back the Park’ campaign was built must resolve the problems that have harmed the earlier in five days, by 24 hard working volunteers. The project was Pacific Aquaculture regulations generations or we will have a repeat of the 2009 devastating a resounding success. A major part of the trail has been Open Letter to Honourable Gail Shea, returns. completed, and it was an extremely rewarding and fun Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Brian Gunn, President BC Wilderness Tourism Association experience for all. Next year should see the trail ready for As President of the BC Wilderness Tourism Association, I Editor’s Note: Public comment for the proposed Pacific use. 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Every Saturday until Thanksgiving Fri, Sept 10 thru Sun, Oct 10 Sunday, September 12 Pender Islands' Farmers’ Market—you never know what Stefanie Denz—exhibition and sale Living Life Large Festival—groove you’ll find or who you’ll meet; ‘grow your own’ workshops of paintings by Salt Spring artist; with Blackberry Wood, Tambura Rasa, 10:30am; fresh, local produce; baked goods; local art and featured Stefanie’s colourful paintings Sara-Jeanne Hosie as Patsy Cline, artisan works • Community Hall • Saturdays, 9:30am-1pm • on ‘found’ objects and also mixed Smooth Edge, and The Naked DJ’s • ON PENDER ISLAND media collages on artist board • grounds of the Heriot Bay Inn • 1-11pm • Starfish Gallery & Studio • 10:30am- Tickets: $40 (under 15: pay your age) at Thurs, Aug 26 thru Sun, Sept 5 4:30pm, Tues thru Sat • Info: Music Plant, Hummingbird, Heriot Bay 24th Annual Victoria Fringe theatre Festival— www.starfishgalleryandstudio.com • Inn • Info: [email protected], 1- seventeen venues packed with 66 live ON SALT SPRING ISLAND 888-605-4545 • ON QUADRA ISLAND international comedy, drama, live art and spoken-word shows, see 10 Friday, September 10 Sunday, September 12 shows for just $70; SAt AuG 28: free Peter Prince launches new CD, Flutist Mary reher & singer/songwriter eroca Fringekids Fest with live ‘Pacific Day’—come away on a Dancer—benefit recital for the Pender Islands Farmland entertainment, crafts, and more, musical journey with this acoustic Acquisition Project Society • Anglican Church Hall • doors open 11am-4pm, Market Square • Tickets roots singer/guitarist and an all-star 6:45pm for dessert, show 7:30-8:30 • Tickets: $15 at Southridge & Info: www.victoriafringe.com, cast of Salt Spring musicians • Fulford Farms Country Store, & Talisman Books & Gallery • ON 250-383-2663, • IN VICTORIA Hall • 8pm • Tickets & CDs at: PENDER ISLAND Acoustic Planet, Stuff’n Nonsense, Saturday, September 4 SSI Market and peterprinc.ca • ON Friday, September 17 Pender Film Group Screenings—SAt SeP 4: Northface SALT SPRING ISLAND Sunyata in Concert—North African, Latin, Mediterranean (2008)—in 1936, demonstrating its superiority to the rest of the and Western Canadian influenced music; an all ages dance with world, the Nazi party commissions two competing teams to Friday September 10 seating available • Community conquer the treacherous ‘unclimbable’ North Face of the Eiger Salt Spring Gallery of Fine Arts 1st Anniversary— Hall • 8pm • Tickets: $16 in • Community Hall • 7:30pm • Admission by donation • Info: owned and operated by the Salt Spring Island Fine Art Gallery advance at Talisman, www.penderislands.org • ON PENDER ISLAND cooperative (est. 2009) and run by the artists themselves; Southridge, and Medicine Beach Reception 5-8pm; gallery hours 11am-4pm • 135 McPhillips Market, $18 at the door, teens Sat & Sun, September 4 & 5 Avenue • Info: 250-931-0011 wwwsaltspringgallery.ca • ON half price, and kids under 12 free Labour Day Weekend Family Fun Swims—wavepool, SALT SPRING ISLAND • Info: www.Sunyatamusic.com • waterslide, pirate ship, toddler pool, steam, sauna, swirlpool, ON PENDER ISLAND lengths • Saanich Commonwealth Place, 4636 Elk Lake Drive Friday, September 10 (right off Pat Bay Hwy at Royal Oak exit) • SAt: 1-4pm; Sun: Sweet Lowdown in Concert—fiddle, banjo, guitar, and Saturday, September 18 10am-noon & 1-4pm; Note: pool closed for annual maintenance three voices, Victoria trio blends Knox united Church Annual Fall Fair—gigantic garage Sept 6-19 • Info: 24-hour Swimline 250-475-7620 • IN SAANICH oldtime, bluegrass, and blues sale, furniture, linen, women's & children’s traditions with original clothing, quality corner, fresh produce, baking, Sat , Sun, Mon, September 4, 5, 6 songwriting; presented by the children's activities, entertainment, tea 143rd Saanich Fair: ‘Blue Jeans & Country Dreams’ Mayne Island Music Society • Ag room, pancake breakfast 7-10am; park at featuring ‘Cows’ this year—over 5,000 exhibits, dog and horse Hall • Doors 7pm; music at Ballenas High School Pym Street & take shows, entertainment, midway • Saanich Fairground, 1528 7:30pm • Tickets: $12 at Happy shuttle • 345 Pym St • 8am-2pm • free Stellys X Road • Saturday and Sunday: 8am-9pm; Monday til Tides; $15 at the door • Info: www.musiconmayne.ca • ON admission • Info: 250-248-3927 or 6pm • Admission: Adults $10/$9, Seniors and Youth (7-13yrs) MAYNE ISLAND [email protected] • IN PARKSVILLE $7/$6, Children 6 and under free • Info: www.saanichfair.ca • IN SAANICHTON Fri & Sat, September 10 & 11 Saturday, September 18 Fibre Arts Showcase—raw fleeces, luxury fibres, exquisite Saturna Island Family estate Winery—12th Annual Sunday, September 5 hand created articles, vendors, Harvest Celebration; wine tasting, entertainment, fun events, the eco-Homes tour—natural demonstrations, Fashion Fiesta 5- live music, fantastic food • at the Winery • Noon-5pm • Advance buildings made with local, non-toxic, 9pm on Friday, banquet, speaker, tickets: $30 call 1-877-918-3388, at the gate $35 • Info: reused, or renewable materials; a fashion show • Van Island Conference www.saturnavineyards.com• ON SATURNA ISLAND fundraiser for the Community Centre • FrI: 1-8pm; SAt: 9am-4pm • Farmland Acquisition Project • Admission: adults $5/day or $8 two Fri thru Sun, September 24 to 26 10am-4pm • Tickets: $15 for adults, days; children $3/day or $5 two days Wisdom of the Heart—Kirtan & 18yrs and under free at Talisman, • Info: [email protected], Jeanette Roberts, 250-751- Devotional Yoga Retreat with David Southridge, Medicine Beach Market, 1070, www.vancouverislandfibrearts.com • IN NANAIMO Newman and Mira, a gifted devotional and the Farmers Market • Info: www.EcoHomesNetwork.com vocalist and percussionist; a heartfelt • ON PENDER ISLAND Fri, Sat & Sun, September 10-12 weekend of ecstatic call and response Salt Spring PrIDe 2010—6th Annual GLBTQ Festival; chanting, devotional music and sacred Local & Salish Sea-wide SePt 10: ‘Shock-O-l’Art’, 601 Upper Ganges Rd, 7pm, tickets song • Info: [email protected], or $15; SePt 11: Pride Parade 1pm, meet Mahon Hall noon, www.arbutusretreats.com, 250-335-1616 Visibility For Your Event PRIDE in the Park, 2-4pm, Dance at Barbs 8pm; SePt 12: • ON DENMAN ISLAND [email protected] • 250-629-3660 Potluck, Ruckle Park site 3, 12-4pm • Info: www.glossi.org • ON SALT SPRING ISLAND [email protected] • 250-629-3660

Good Life ~ Brian Crumblehulme September Garden Calendar Praise large estates but cultivate a small one—Virgil, 29 BC s I write, it is still very dry, but for those with a can for salads. Be sure to choose winter-hardy varieties that you the Humble Potato or two of water there is still much that can be done can gather from under the snow if necessary to fill your Escoffier lists 42 classic recipes for the potato—none of Ato provide food and colour for winter and spring. colander through next April, while everyone else is paying which include potato soup, salad or cakes. The Murphy, as In the flower garden, or in pots, scatter seeds of Nigella, a premium price for three-week-old stuff imported from the Irish refer to it, is a primary comfort food and nearly a Alyssum and Pansies. These plants are very hardy and the California. Good local varieties can still be obtained from meal in itself if you eat the skin. Of the 7,000+ varieties you seedlings will overwinter to flower in March and April. Island Seeds, Saltspring Seeds and West Coast Seeds. can, with effort, find over 300 of them in Canada and maybe Alternatively, pansies and violets bought now will provide At this time too, plant out July-and-August-sown 4 or 5 on the supermarket shelves. If you really want to find colour through fall and winter if it is not too cold. broccoli, cauliflower, kale, and cabbage across the garden local varieties, talk to Roger at the Galiano Farmer’s market. Sweet peas sown 3-4 in one gallon pots will also grow where there is a chance of winter sun. It is not necessary to One of the finest cuisines comes from the Indian sub- into sturdy plants by the end of October, when they can be plant them all together, in fact, brassicas spread around the continent where the tuber is referred to as Aloo. garden stand a better chance of survival in bad weather and placed in a greenhouse or shed window and over-wintered Aloo Achar (Refried potatoes as a snack or side dish) will mature at different times to provide a continuous supply for an early start. Failing that, sow them in the ground in Prep time 15 minutes, cooking time 30 minutes, serves 4. of vegetables through spring. This may be the season of October when you plant your garlic. 3-4 potatoes plenty but do not neglect next year. September is also the time to transplant or take cuttings ¼ cup whole roasted sesame seed After harvest, grapes, raspberries, apples, plums and 1 tsp ground cumin of your favourite geraniums and fuchsias in pots to bring pears are better off for pruning now, instead of waiting for 1-3 crushed fresh chilies indoors in October before the weather turns cold and they winter. Good pruning at this time will coax the trees into 1 tsp turmeric too will reward your effort with both late and early flowers. producing those short fruiting spurs that will assist them to 2-3 cloves chopped garlic Finally, don’t leave it too late to buy or trade spring flowering mature during the winter and produce flowers in spring. about ½ cup of Canola bulbs. Waiting for the sales means taking what’s left and the Apples and pears must be fully ripened before picking juice of 1 lemon roots need time to grow through fall and winter if you want for maximum flavour and better storage. Cut a sample fruit A few sprigs of fresh cilantro, chopped strong plants for next year. Dig a hole big enough for 5 or 6 in half and examine the seeds (pips) which should be black salt to taste bulbs, break up the subsoil with a garden fork, add some or dark brown when mature. Fruit with seeds that are still Cut the potatoes in quarters and boil for 15 minutes, drain compost and a dusting of bone meal and arrange the bulbs green or white are liable to rot. well. Heat the oil to medium in a large skillet and add all the as you will. Conversely, green potatoes are not good to eat but will ingredients except the lemon juice, the oil should be hot but In the kitchen garden, sow carrots and onions in well- keep much better for ‘seed’ potatoes next year. Store them not smoke. Stir well. Add the potatoes and fry until crisp, composted and well-drained ground for next spring. And, in a cool dark room in single layers in flats with the ‘eyes’ stirring occasionally. Add the lemon juice and sprinkle with anywhere there is space, sow winter lettuce and other greens facing up and check them once a month for mice. SEPTEMBER GARDEN, please turn to page 9 Page 6, ISLAND TIDES, Sept 2, 2010

rm Gat a e F Photo:Toby Snelgrove In a reversal of its previous ruling, Mayne Island LTC approved an 18-month Temporary Use Permit for a ‘farmgate store’ at the Fernhill Centre subject to Ministry of Highways’ approval for access and egress. The fo t store (sign design inset) has been a hot potato on Mayne Island for some months. o gh d for thou Sunset Viewings and Seals of the haulouts. There are many haulouts around Saturna. Saturna Notes~ Priscilla Ewbank Athena George, our Parks Canada interpreter, organized a Baby seals regularly get orphaned, stranded or lose the Friday night presentation, Sunset Viewing at East Point, for connection with their mothers. There are two schools of e finally made it up to a scorching crescendo of each Friday in August. East Point is the southeastern most thought: to let them die in the natural cycle of feeding eagles, sunshine and heat. The dawns and long tip of the Gulf Islands. vultures, wasps, flies or to rescue them. Baby seals are Wevenings were made for socializing and gazing At 8pm one Friday, Heather Vallee and Lloyd Elling designed like most young to attract their mothers’ attention. at gardens and stars. In the middle of the day, you were played the violin and guitar and sang. We had three silences It is heart-rending to hear a baby seal, especially for a woman. We are genetically plugged in to respond to cries. either swimming or mentally inert. We had every window interspersed with jokes, poetic readings. An Islander spoke about impressions and the history of East Point, and Athena Thanks to the glories of East Point and the liveliness of and door in the place open, were up by 6am, missed the made a presentation on seals. Athena it was a lovely evening. middle of the day if possible, and loving the long evenings. All around us the light shifted and changed, the tide Share the Care Flies, ants, gnats, mosquitos, hornets, bees, and blackflies roared by, the three-quarter moon rose, the sun sank. We Jon and I have been wonderfully assisted through Jon’s were fully activated by the heat. The evenings brought out laughed and were delighted and the baby seals on their haul cancer treatment by a group of Islanders who formed a an array of moths along with their predators, bats, owls, out at Boiling Reef slapped in the water, silently cruised or Share the Care group. We got splendid assistance with the nighthawks, and dragon flies. I could do without the biters, lolled about 200 yards from us. What a happening place! additional demands on our time and the day-to-day slog. Things pile up overwhelmingly when suddenly you are parts of me are both tanned and itchy and my fly-smacking Athena explained that August 15 is the height of baby seal births. For decades BC had a bounty on seals as fishermen going to the hospital, doctors appointments and caring for abilities are back to being professional. were convinced that seals cut deeply into their fish catch. a partner who needs help, comfort and company. I grew up with this kind of weather in southern USA. Jim Bavis said that his cousins were paid $5 for every seal The group organized itself to have two people a week to Usually just before school in September we had two weeks snout they turned in. In the late ’60s the seal population in call us for a week’s worth of tasks. People appeared at a or so of 100ºF. I can hardly imagine how we stayed alert or the Georgia Strait dropped to a 1,000 plus. It has rebounded designated time, did the job and left with no need for coffee, even awake in the afternoons, sticky with heat, dressed in to 10 times that number in the last 50 years. tea or visiting. At first, since I was already overwhelmed, this generosity was overwhelming. It was marvelous and was a our most impressive teenaged outfits. Athena explained that there are 54 scientific studies going on in the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve and told us true help to give me more time to be with Jon and to keep about a UBC master’s student study on the daily life of a seal. our world intact and running while we worked our way Here some of the details. Seals stay close to home to their through this situation. Many people came and helped with my garden. While I home haulout and indeed have their own dedicated parking Beginning Tuesday, September 7, ticket felt that this was extraneous in some ways and not directly place. They stay with their babies for about 4 to 6 weeks. helping Jon, the beautiful garden was like balm to my soul. sales and loading end: Their milk content is about 45% butterfat. They are at their The hours that I spent with friends and acquaintances, haulouts dozing from about 11am to 4pm. They dive and • five minutes before the scheduled sailing working together in the earth and beauty was time spent fish around dawn and also into the night. Night dives are ‘away’ from cancer and planning and scurrying around time for vehicles, and shallower as the fish rise to a higher level then. Our seals ‘catching up’. stay within 10km from home. • five minutes before the scheduled sailing Our family reunion for the most part took place outdoors It is critical not to disturb the seals and their mothers surrounded by the garden that those many hands helped time for walk-on passengers. doing this short intense period from birth to ‘fledging’. Federal regulations say you must be about 100 metres off SATURNA, please turn to page 8 Butler Gravel & Concrete…Better JAKOBSEN from the ground up! 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The Islands Trust Story: Act III ~ Peter Lamb ISLAND TIDES, Sept 2, 2010, Page 7 the Story So Far Trustees that there are no substantial changes foreseen Islands Trust. Acts 1 and 2 described the formation of the Islands Trust in regarding the role of the Trust. However, the full The NDP Opposition, led by Charles Barber, leaps into 1974 and subsequent amendments in 1977 to make the implications for the Trust are not clear since the transitional action. He expresses anger over the introduction of a organization more ‘mature and responsive’. The Trust section of the Bill has not been introduced. Trustees wisely number of new features introduced into the proposed Act priorities are to prepare official community plans ask for a staff report. including the new clause that would abolish the Islands Three months later, a senior and zoning bylaws on each island and a Regional Trust without any prior consultation with the organization official from the Ministry tells Plan for the whole Trust area. or with the residents affected. He argues at length that it is In the late 1970s, the Trust resists pressure Trustees that, under Bill 72, no local a loss for local government and a loss for local control. ‘The from the provincial government to support government, including the Islands islands will be treated like any other piece of real estate in specific development applications, notably Trust, would be able to adopt an projects on Denman, Salt Spring, Bowen and De Official Regional Plan. The Trust’s BC.’ In an emotional defence of the Trust, he denounces the Courcy Islands. In addition, serious concerns are proposed Regional Plan would be government for its actions and says that ‘destruction of the raised about a proposed mining venture on advisory only and have no legal effect. Islands Trust will lead to the destruction of the Gulf Islands Gambier Island and an airfield on Mayne Island. That was bad enough but trustees are as we know them.’ It is now 1980 and the future of the Trust is in really angry that Bill 72 also proposes The Minister is clearly facing strong and widespread question. to give a committee of unelected civil opposition to the Bill 72. Editorial opinion condemns the Scene 1: A review of Local servants overriding authority over proposed destruction of the Trust. The Vancouver Sun local plans. declares, ‘Abolishing the Islands Trust would be like Government Trustees quickly pass a resolution removing the Beefeater guard from the Crown jewels in the The Social Credit government undertakes a ‘to record our utter dismay at the review of the regional government structure prospect that the role of the Islands Tower of London. It would be an invitation to plunder a which has been in place across the province for Trust and the process of achieving one-of-a-kind treasure house.’ The Times Colonist adds its over a decade. The regional districts, municipalities and the our objectives would be severely eroded and diminished…’ vigorous opposition to the government position on the Islands Trust are made aware of the government’s proposed and urgently request clarification from the Minister. Over Trust. ‘To abandon the islands now to the varying and direction in a discussion paper released in September 1980. the next few months, the Islands Trust naturally mounts a uncertain mercies of seven different regional districts is In a November 29, 1980 letter to Islands Trust Chair, concerted campaign to oppose those provisions in the Act. reckless and foolish.’ John Rich, Minister Vander Zalm assures him that the Trust Trust Chair, John Rich, is tracked down at a northern In a last ditch attempt to delay the Bill, the Opposition will continue to exercise essentially the same planning fishing lodge to deal with the worsening threat. demands a referendum on the islands to see if the residents responsibilities. With that assurance, the trust relaxes and Scene 3: Proposed Abolition Of the carries on with its preparation of a regional plan for the favour retention of the Islands Trust. It never took place. islands involving extensive consultation with provincial trust Faced with the criticism in the legislature and actively ministries and the public. On July 27, 1982, Minister Vander Zalm moves second opposed by the Islands Trust, regional districts, the Union However, events are not unfolding as expected. reading of Bill 72 with more unexpected changes—the of BC Municipalities, the press and the public, Bill 72 is gloves are off. The Minister notes that ‘this Bill has Scene 2: the trust’s role Is allowed to ‘die on the Order Paper,’ in other words, the undergone a great public process’ but recognizes the proposed legislation does not proceed any further and the threatened ‘considerable controversy’ with respect to the Islands Trust. Islands Trust continues in business. Throughout 1981, there is much debate across the province While acknowledging the work of the Islands Trust in The curtain falls to loud applause. about the government’s proposals for local government. In putting bylaws and community plans in place, he says ‘this November, the Minister introduces Bill 72, the Land Use Act. process can be carried through very effectively by the The entire ‘Island Trust Story: Celebrating 30 Years’ is To provide clarification of the proposed legislation, the Regional Districts.’ Toward the end of the proposed Act, available in booklet form from the following bookstores: Deputy Minister of Municipal Affairs addresses a meeting section 190 states simply ‘The Islands Trust Act is repealed.’ The Island Book Shoppe on Gabriola, Watermark Books of all Trustees in December 1981. Once again, he assures In other words, Vander Zalm now proposes to abolish the and Black Sheep Books on Salt Spring. 0 Is There Jazz At Festivals?~ Paul S White A few years after WWII was over and done with, ‘jazz Of the four Canadian bands—Victoria’s Dixieland festivals’ were presented to the public with the patronage of Express, Chiliwack’s Big Bang Jazz Band, Vancouver’s New GULF ISLANDS WATER TREATMENT SOLUTIONS wealthy supporters and the management of savvy Orleans Ale Stars, and Toronto’s Climax Jazz Band—two impresarios. The Newport Rhode Island was a major first, were new to me, although I had heard some of their players Well Water • Rain Water • Surface Water backed by cigarette (tobacco) heirs and conducted by more than once over the years. Of the six US-based bands, • Whole-house Treatment Boston’s George Wien, who leads the field of jazz festival I had also heard some players, but there were five groups • Self-cleaning Sediment Filters director-producers, and manages to play some jazz piano new to my ears. • Media Filters as he goes along! It led to a proliferation of smaller ‘festivals’ I embarked on the Coho ferry from Victoria to determine • Ultraviolet Systems over the USA, Europe and Asia. They are now held in so if this classic jazz festival was to be pitied, admired or simply many places that the list can overflow a fan’s Rolodex. ignored. My first reaction is that the Canadians were second REMOVE: Festivals vary from specific genres of jazz stylings to pot- to none that weekend, and some of their best players were Iron / Odour / Bacteria / pourris of a great variety of styles often headlined by asked by the established American band leaders to share Hardness / Arsenic recognized ‘stars’. This content seems to call for a the stages, and those so chosen were the stars of the shows. 250-412-1110 • 604- 630-1114 • 524 William Street, Victoria redefinition of jazz. The weather was clement, and the audience was 250-339-6914 Comox Valley In its May 31 issue, Canada’s Maclean’s magazine committed, grey-haired (mostly), enthusiastic and www.watertiger.net published a thoughtful full-page, written by Martin appreciative of all efforts. Some couples in attendance had Patriquin, titled ‘The Doobie Brothers are a jazz act?’, followed their favorite bands on their planned summer subtitled ‘Purists take issue with the Montreal Jazz Festival’s holiday schedules. ‘junkyard’ of headline acts.’ Meanwhile, diluted ‘jazz’ I met a knowledgeable couple from Falls Church, content has been deplored for decades. Virginia who planned an annual trip to our Pacific The current mode of traditional ‘festival’ doesn’t reward Northwest to hear their favorite band—Bellevue, or favour local musicians, and hasn’t endeared itself to Washington’s ‘Uptown Lowdown’—at three festivals on aficianados. Main stream ‘festivals’ also provide so much successive weekends over two-and-a-half weeks—at Sidney, music that the paying public is too often sated by the last Port Angeles, and Chiliwack. They were nice people hearing Sunday set and have had enough classic jazz, or any other great music and knowing how sweet it is. They might not kind, for months to come. range far from Falls Church to sit at a theatre or concert hall However, festivals are a main source of employment for venue, or pay cover charges for diluted ‘drinks’ and inflated jazz musicians. The traditional urban jazz club or roadhouse meal prices at the few night clubs still extant, but they had market has been shrunk by changing tastes in music, made up their minds how to spend their holidays, and they breathalyzers, aversion to secondhand smoke and tourist- were obvious in their enjoyment of their the festival mini- trap pricing. The Montreal Jazz Festival may seem like a circuit. beer-soaked, wet T-shirt contest to the devoted jazz fan— I went from venue to venue every hour that Friday, and but it works financially and does present a great variety of heard seven punctual, well-paced performances. The popular players. Canadian Climax Jazz Band needs no special intro and Being curmudgeonly, I avoided festivals for years, except Victoria’s Dixieland Express is well known for its for visits to hear some new assemblage of good musicians competence, skill, and professional entertainment. 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Sunrise fire in the arbutus Photo: Susan Banjavich EcoIdea ~ Ron Watts Solar & Other Renewable Energy Forms A small group of people interested in learning more about solar energy has started up as part of the Transition Salt Spring initiative. If you would like to learn more, and possibly reduce your energy ECOWOODY footprint and have a source of back-up power in case there’s a power outage, this group can help. Here are a couple of ideas to get you started. From my research it seems that solar hot water systems offer the most efficient conversion of energy and Solar BC, www.solarbc.ca, currently offers a $2,000 rebate for installing a solar hot water system. Another source of renewable, non-polluting energy is Bullfrog Power www.bullfrogpower.com. For an additional 2¢/kilowatt hour, Bullfrog Power will feed into the electrical grid an equivalent amount of electricity sourced from wind and hydro facilities that have been certified as low impact by Environment Canada instead of from polluting sources like coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear. To find out more about the solar interest group or to share more eco-ideas, contact [email protected] or www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/salt-spring-island. 0

SATURNA from page 6 bring to full beauty. The experience of Share the Care taught Saturna community functions. The next three hours were a me a lot about how to be truly helpful to friends and family rich report on every aspect of how Islanders function, who are coping with a stressful health issue. personally and economically, in a rural isolated community. 250.888.7199 250.217.3649 Ferry Space Divided–Island united Saanich and Victoria are the working destinations for the [email protected] On Friday, August 20, BC Ferries invited the Saturna Island. The mainland is too expensive and too time www.islandfloatation.com Community to hear about a new plan for the Route 5A 10am consuming for businesses and medical needs. Saturna has sailing from Saturna to Swartz Bay. Twelve spaces (240ft) very few services; people must go off-Island and they may need quick access. Saturna has a doctor once a week, a Independent would be dedicated to Saturna, 24 to Mayne and the rest to Pender (at least 32) during fall, winter, and spring, to allow health nurse once a week. At the heart of the discussion, it Dental Hygiene Pender more cars on its notoriously overloaded 11:35am was recognized that a government service like ferries is in a relaxed setting sailing. However, this is very limited boarding for Saturna, responsible for addressing the needs of the community Registered Dental Hygienists whose next option for access to Swartz Bay is not until versus private bottom-line business functioning. offering: 4:20pm. The first-come-first-served, 12-car ration on the mid- • scaling • root planing Saturna Community Hall was packed with about 110 morning boat is a hardship. Our small B&B trade depends • polishing • whitening on people being able to have the breakfast they paid for and Islanders—more than a third of the Island’s population. • other services then depart. The Campbell Farm abattoir depends on the About 4 kids kept the dust going in the far corner of the meat inspector getting over on the 5am sailing from Swartz lounge as their parents sat in the audience. Celebrating 8 years of service in beautiful Sidney-by-the-Sea Bay and leaving on the 10am as he inspects every animal It was a good meeting. As long-time Islander Jacques 250-655-4884 carcass slaughtered on Fridays. The construction people Campbell said, ‘I have never been to a meeting on Saturna picking up gravel and loads from Sleggs and other Saanich where I agreed with everything everybody said!’ It started businesses must get in for the ‘quick turn around’ as that on time, hosted and organized by our Ferry Advisory ferry is known on the Island, or pay drivers overtime. As Ian Committee members. Sue Syverson made the Gaines of ITG Construction commented, tongue in cheek, introductions. Bless BC Ferries; after brief introductions ‘Sorry, friends, but I will come down at 8am and park my form the four personnel (Chris Frappel being the only one I trucks or truck-and-trailer, go to work and be at the ferry at recognized amid their long management titles) we had a 10am to drive on, taking up two to three car vacancies.’ mercifully short Powerpoint presentation. The public The 10am ferry run should be a dedicated run for Saturna relations person from BC Ferries assured the crowd, seated with other Islands getting on at their stops. I was proud of smack up against his toes, that staff were there to listen and the practical suggestions and the powerful reframing that to answer questions. And they did! the community presented to the ferry personnel. Islanders We are well-satisfied with the service that we now have— wanted local ferry reps to report back to their larger beyond a few pie-in-the-sky wishes; even though we are the planning group that Saturna did not just have ‘concerns’ first on in the morning, leaving at 6:25am, and the last off about the change under consideration but rejected it; with at night. further recommendations as to how the situation of Our first speaker had a terse three pages of notes ‘overload’ at Pender could be handled. detailing: the service the 10:30am ferry provides, statistics, A point was made clearly: don’t pit the Islands against questions querying the ferry corporation objective and each other for travel services. The ferries are our roads and method of solving the problem, and providing other options. Fifty more speakers spelled out many facets of how the SATURNA, please turn to page 12 ISLAND TIDES, Sept 2, 2010, Page 9 Have you been to see? Visitors to the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival on September 10-12 will be able to inspect the elegant brig ‘Lady Washington’, the Official Ship of Washington State. She will be hauled out at the Port Townsend Shipyard on September 7 for a routine maintenance haul-out and safety inspection, but will be available for public viewing during the Festival weekend. The ‘Lady Washington’ will also be in Port Angeles over Labor Day weekend, when she will offer public walk-on tours and sailings. During the haul-out in Port Townsend, her companion ship, ‘Hawaiian Chieftain’, will stay in Port Angeles, offering public walk-on tours and weekend sailings through September 12. After her rejuvenation in Port Townsend, ‘Lady Washington’ will sail for Grays Harbor and prepare for her annual trip to California. Berths for the three-day passage can be booked by visiting www.historicalseaport.org. A complete schedule of public activities by both ships is available at www.historicalseaport.org. 0

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A one billion dollar from which industrial fertilizers are made. and Stelco, to name the largest. 2007 was environment.’ purchase looks like peanuts as we watch the Given the clout of the Australian mining the previous all-time high of foreign Meanwhile, business leaders claim it is potash takeover, but any firm sold for less giant BHP Billiton, the largest mining takeovers, but 2010 has a larger number of good for Canada because we are short of than one billion is no longer reviewed at all. company in the world, it is likely that the transactions already. Despite reviews to capital—although some are not as sanguine. The effect of all the foreign purchases of $38.6 billion (US) takeover of Potash Corp ensure a ‘net benefit’, the track record is not Dominic D’Alessandro, while he was still previously Canadian companies was to will succeed. It will be reviewed to reassuring—US Steel did not honour CEO of Manulife Financial, worried that we drive up foreign direct investment (FDI). determine if Canada receives a ‘net benefit’ promises to Stelco workers, and Brazilian might ‘all wake up one day and find that as That indicator is generally seen as positive. under the Investment Canada Act. But as Vale did not keep its commitments to a nation, we have lost control of our affairs.’ The growth in the tar sands also increased only one takeover since 2007 has been former Inco workers. When you look at a graph of the foreign FDI. But there are downsides to that kind of turned down—for the space division of Such takeovers usually pit nationalists takeovers of Canadian corporations, you growth (making no comment on the Vancouver-based MacDonald Dettwiler and against investors. Maude Barlow, National would be entitled to wonder why it suddenly environmental costs). With a higher FDI Associates, to a US firm—it is likely this one Chairperson of the Council of Canadians, spiked in 2007. The reason for the sudden and higher oil exports, the loonie rose to will be rubber-stamped. argued, ‘This [the Potash Corp takeover] is surge in Canadian companies being the heights not seen since the early 1970s. That So another resource company will move the wrong way to go. When you hand over target of hostile takeovers is not much led to a collapse in export-dependent out of Canadian control. all the power over these resources to discussed. Nor are the economic sectors. Pulp and paper and manufacturing implications for our productivity as a took big hits, with over 300,000 jobs lost in country. manufacturing alone. And these job losses POETSP O E T S COVEC O V E PENDERP E N D E R ISLANDI S L A N D BCB C It turns out there are a lot of very were before the 2008 recession. › › interesting and complex interactions In its 2008 Report to Canada, the beyond the nationalist argument. There is Organization for Economic Cooperation an argument that Canadian companies and Development (OECD) warned that our started being gobbled up at an economy was being increasingly skewed to unprecedented rate by foreign giants tar sands production, risking the other because Stephen Harper broke his promise regions and other sectors. That not to tax income trusts. This may seem too phenomenon is called ‘Dutch Disease,’ after obscure to be credible, but as long as the negative impacts of early development corporations could convert profits to trusts, by the Netherlands in North Sea oil. The they had sufficient cash to withstand OECD warned Canada to avoid Dutch takeover bids. Once Stephen Harper broke Disease and go slow in the tar sands. the promise to never tax income trusts, not Sensible economic strategies take all of only did many Canadian seniors lose their Canada into consideration; all regions and savings, the bonanza of takeovers began. the need for a diversified economy. The fire Right after the taxing of income trusts, sale of Canadian industries is not only an Penn West’s CEO predicted that foreign issue of national sovereignty. It has an takeovers would increase in the energy important impact on a wide range of sector. ‘Where you’ve seen a economic indicators, including productivity. Canadianization of the energy industry, it As more jobs are lost in resource and will go the other way, there will be a lot of manufacturing sectors, the job market shifts purchases,’ said William Andrew, chief to service jobs. 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ISLAND TIDES, Sept 2, 2010, Page 11 HST petition goes to Committee Elections BC has certified that there are sufficient valid signatures on the anti-HST petition to qualify it for consideration by the Select Standing Committee on Legislative Initiatives. The committee will have the choice of referring the proposed legislation to the Legislature, or authorizing a province-wide, non-binding referendum. A Supreme Court decision last Friday quashed a move by several big-business organizations to get the petition ruled invalid on the basis that it sought provincial legislation to upset a tax that had been imposed under federal legislation only. The committee has never met in the 14 years since the legislation creating it was adopted. It is chaired by a little- known freshman Liberal MP, Terry Lake from Kamloops- North Thompson. There are five other Liberal members: Eric Foster (Vernon-Monashee), Dave Hayer (Surrey- Tynehead), Richard Lee (Burnaby North), Pat Pimm (Peace River North), and John Slater (Boundary-Similkameen). There are four NDP members: Katrine Conroy (Kootenay West), Mike Farnworth (Port Coquitlam), Rob Fleming (Victoria-Swan Lake), and Jenny Kwan (Vancouver-Mount Pleasant). Photo: Peter Easthope A move by the anti-HST coalition to quash the tax, on Repairs to Berth 2 at Village Bay underway after Queen of Nanaimo crash on August 16. They are now the basis that it had been imposed without any provincial completed. (this photo was taken from a handheld game console.) legislation, has yet to be heard in court. 0 Queen of Burnaby will cover Route 9 According to BC Ferries, the Queen of Nanaimo will go for The Queen of Nanaimo was built in Victoria in 1964; the refit from mid-October to mid-December, and the Queen of Queen of Burnaby, in 1965. uniting Islands—big and small. It costs a Burnaby, a near-sistership, will be assigned to Route 9 In other ferry news, a plan to create space allocations by during that period. (Route 9 is the regular run from Island on the late morning ferry from the Southern Gulf lot to keep a regional newspaper going! Tsawwassen to the Southern Gulf Islands.) Islands to Victoria appears to have been abandoned Voluntary Subscriptions help The Queen of Burnaby usually operates the Powell following a negative reaction from Islanders on Mayne and River–Comox run. While it is away, that route will be Saturna. The ferry regularly overloads at Otter Bay, Pender keep all this great news coming! covered by the Queen of Chilliwack. Island (see also Saturna Notes, page 8.) The Queen of Nanaimo recently collided with Village BC Ferries note that in its first financial quarter, April to Did something in this edition: Bay’s Berth 1 when it failed to be able to shift into reverse as June 2010, vehicle traffic was 1.6% less than last year, and • inform you? it approached the dock. That incident is still under passenger traffic was 1.2% less. Net earnings were near investigation; the vessel was back in service in three days and breakeven, $0.9 million compared to a loss of $3.6 million • pique your interest? 0 the dock in a little over a week. in the same period in 2009. • amuse you? CoalWatch seeks full public hearings on Raven mine • give you a warm, fuzzy feeling? • make a good contact for you? John Snyder, president of the CoalWatch Comox Valley the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, including Society, has requested that the federal Minister of the the right to present evidence and to cross-examine the • find you an opportunity? Environment, Jim Prentice, refer the environmental experts of the proponent and government. • inspire you to take action? assessment of the proposed raven coal mine to a joint ‘The potential for this project to transform the Comox federal/provincial independent Expert Review Panel with Valley demands a full and open public process. Not only • make a conversation topic? full public hearings. does the proposed coal mine pose potentially significant • find you a good buy or service? The ‘comprehensive’ review currently proposed would adverse environmental effects, the concerns expressed by mandate public meetings, but not full public hearings. the Comox Valley and Island communities demand that this If you are receiving Island Tides in your Island However, John Tapics, CEO of Compliance Energy, which project be given full scrutiny in open public hearings. This mailbox or if you pick it up from one of our yellow has proposed the Raven mine (above Fanny Bay on is necessary not only to fully assess the environmental free boxes located across the Strait of Georgia Vancouver Island) says that the comprehensive review is impact of the proposed RUC Project, but also to restore the ‘adequate’. public trust. and from Victoria to Campbell River or, if you read Snyder’s letter says: ‘The Panel should be mandated to ‘The choice is clear, the residents of Port Alberni, the online, you can show your support and appreciation deal with the entire spectrum of potential environmental Comox Valley, and indeed the whole of Vancouver Island by mailing a voluntary subscription of impacts of the proposed project, and to provide the public deserve nothing less than a joint federal/provincial review with the highest level of public participation available under panel with full public hearings.’ 0 ($25 + hst = $28.00) or an amount of your choice to: Box 55, Pender Island, B.C. V0n 2M0 New local food initiatives (Or call us with your VISA number, 250-629-3660) Local livestock producers and their customers will benefit their livestock production because of the lack of abattoirs in as a new abattoir opens on Vancouver Island and the the area. possibility of a mobile meat-processing unit on Salt Spring A mobile meat-processing unit will be set up on Salt Thank You! increases. Spring Island if the Livestock Producers can raise matching And a heartfelt ‘Thank You’ to those of ‘Island Ideal Meats,’ a federally inspected Class ‘A’ facility funds for a $100,000 from the Meat Transition Assistance you who have sent their subscriptions. south of Nanaimo will now service Vancouver Island Program. The grant may be up to $150,000 if cut and wrap Keep those lovely cards, letters, and Heritage Foodservice Co-operative members and Island services can also be provided. livestock producers with slaughter and custom cut-and- Mobile meat processing has been operating successfully emails coming, too! We paste them all in wrap services. The 20-head per week capacity facility allows in the San Juan Islands since 2001. Bruce Dunlop of Lopez our scrapbooks! for resale of the meat. The new facility will make it easier to Island Farm drives his mobile unit to ‘docking stations’ at obtain local food products, which are in ‘scarce supply on farms on neighbouring islands. He can process 20 sheep Vancouver Island,’ said Project Manager Sandra Mark. 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Jaipur is a city full of colour and Rajasthan is one of the most vibrant of all the Indian states. The city teems with activity at all hours of the day and night, and noise pollution is a serious problem, particularly for a visitor from overseas. Unknown to us, the next day, with its many weddings, was going to add to the festive and cacophonous din. Ten days after Diwali in India, with the awakening of the Gods, the wedding season begins. The first day is one of the busiest. In India, families consult seers, or the calendar, to determine a good day to be married. With everything supposedly at its best, the day was deemed auspicious for marriages. Jaipur boasted 1,000 weddings the day we were there. Indian weddings are complicated affairs. In the old tradition, families still pick your soon-to-be spouse from ads in the paper and family connections. Attention is paid to caste (not supposed to exist, but it does), physical attributes, education, financial security, and land ownership. The parents meet, and the bride doesn’t actually reveal herself to her new groom until after the arrangements are made. Wedding Day On the day of the wedding the groom will rent a beautiful white horse from a person who makes his living by renting out wedding horses. The horse is decorated in bright colours, predominately red, to honour the festive occasion. The groom, riding the horse, and his friends and relatives Wedding dancers then go to the bride’s house to fetch the bride. The bride has spent days in preparation and has been suitably decorated stood quietly nearby. They had run out of wedding horses when the day was deemed auspicious. But this is India, and with henna and dressed in a red sari. She will wear as much in Jaipur, so some had to revert to camels. The camels anything can happen. gold as her father can afford in the form of bangles, nose apparently had a superior attitude, as they stood with their Aftermath and toe rings, necklaces and earrings. This is part of her noses held high in the air. They seemed to ignore the After the two or three day wedding celebrations are finished, dowry. This, again, is an outlawed but very active custom garbage detail, the city pigs, that were on night duty eating the bride goes home to live with the groom’s family for the still practiced in India. up the trash of Jaipur. rest of her married life. Except in major cities, such as Delhi, Processions of rented musicians, decorated elephants, Fireworks shot high in the air over the whole city. Their Mumbai, and Calcutta, separate living is unusual. The major horses, friends and family all seem to go to the receptions pungent smell almost masked the typical odours of the city, challenge starts for the bride, as she must find a way of living held in gigantic tents or on street corners. If the families are but nothing could hide the constant sounds of explosions peacefully with her mother-in-law and sisters-in-law. Some well enough off, then the reception may be in a hotel or everywhere, as each family celebrated its joyous occasion. of the young men I met while traveling were ready to tear formal venue. No matter which, the level of celebration is One boom was a little louder than the rest, but except for their hair out from the challenge of trying to keep peace the same. the people in the immediate vicinity, no one paid attention. amongst the women in their household. On every street corner in Jaipur on that incredible day A large fuel storage area had exploded, but most of us didn’t An important and respected profession in India is there was a massive party going on. The streets were full of know until the late night news on the television. It had much counselling. This profession holds more status than a colourful outfits and the tinkling of bangles. Dancers swayed larger implications for the residents of Jaipur than the lawyer. 0 to the exotic music. Elephants stood patiently, dressed in ‘Night of a Thousand Weddings’. The fuel storage explosion In the guise of Mamasafari, Pené Hollingworth says she will be sumptuous gold blankets, and the horses, equally elegant, killed several people and sent a cloud of toxic air over large in India, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, parts of Rajasthan and eventually was significant in the Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, South Africa, Swaziland, pollution counts taken in the major cities of India. "From the first Blue Sky Zambia, Botswana (and maybe at home in Canada) this year. Architecture have been I am sure the Gods did not count on this extra excitement regionalists in the best sense of the term. They SATURNA from page 8 have been deeply involved with the ecology and bridges. loading. topography of southern Thanks to all the Islanders who showed up to listen and British Columbia and its Ferries had two other changes proposed: 10 minutes wonderful interweave of sea, later on the 9am departure to allow Vancouver travelers to talk about how to make this work. The meeting was forest, and rock ." make the boat and do the U-turn and 10 minutes earlier instructive for ourselves, to know ourselves better—all the departure on the 3pm sailing from Swartz to Saturna to ease small pictures presented by each person made a large HELLIWELL + SMITH up the three boat timing crunch at Mayne. pattern that is us in 2010, living and working together. BLUE SKY ARCHITECTURE Saturna has grave reservations about the earlier Digital Archives afternoon departure, which has slowly through the years Richard Blagborn presented Frank Neumann speaking to changed from 4pm to 3pm, and would be even less of a interested Islanders about how to begin a digital archive of historical Island photos. The Saturna Heritage Committee 4090 Bayridge Ave West Vancouver BC V7V 3K1 working day in town for Island businesses. An example is which runs the Fog Alarm Building (FAB) at East Point t 01 604 921 8646 f 01 604 921 0755 the General Store truck which does pick-ups for both stores [email protected] would like to build up a record and have access to photos to www.blueskyarchitecture.com and the Pub and general freight. It is loaded with produce, make displays to tell stories for locals and visitors. With frozen goods and milk and needing to make between 20–30 Frank we brainstormed raising funds and historical sources, stops between 8:30am and 2:50pm, with no assured other than family photos and documents. Frank used to be a Saturna Islander and several years ago moved to Salt Spring. He came to Saturna many years ago on his fish boat the Islaway. He morphed from a fisherman into a computer expert. Frank worked at the Call Us Toll Free For Quotes On Saturna School setting up the computer program for the • Homeowners • Farm office and the kindergartners. 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Bowen Islanders hope the island, and would not incorporate the to protect the entire watershed of Huzar locally hoped for remainder land from the Creek all the way to the sea, including the large Cape Roger Curtis (CRC) development. coastal bluffs. Parks Canada is attracted to Bowen The Cape Roger Curtis Trust Society because it provides an opportunity to create supports the acquisition by Parks Canada of a National Park close to a large urban a very large eastern portion of the CRC centre. However, while some Bowen lands. This would include some sixteen Goodness growing on Galiano ~ Nicole Mouner Islanders would welcome the new tourism large lots, adjacent to Crown parcel 6, business that would accompany the park, including the Fairy Fen property. The Trust o experience a cascade of cucumber, The inside perimeter of the greenhouse is others are concerned that an influx of Society has proposed that it be designated bushes of basil and mountains of lined with deep raised beds and there is one visitors, particularly on summer weekends, a provincial Ecoreserve. Tmelon all you have to do is swing by large work table standing in the centre. The would severely strain the Island’s facilities. The CRC lands are presently privately the new Galiano Community Greenhouse greenhouse has a jungle-feel as many of the Particular concern has been expressed owned, and plans for their development located at the Galiano Community School. vining plants have reach nearly to the roof over the ferry service from Horseshoe Bay. have been rejected by Bowen Island The doors have been open since summer on the trellises we have fashioned. The beds Questions have also been raised about the Municipal Council. The owners have solstice 2010 and things have taken off! are fitted with irrigation from Irrigro and possibility of campsites in a National Park. indicated that they would be open to a Over the past two years, the Galiano there is also a short hose for the potted Recently, the Islands Trust Fund, with the purchase ‘at market value’. 0 Food Program has been asking islanders plants. Our next big structural focus is what they need to become more self- devising a water catchment system. FOOD INITIATIVE from page 11 sufficient with regards to feeding Six people now use the greenhouse as a per day for two consecutive days before regulations. Farmers expect that, with themselves. One resounding response was community garden space and are doing an having to unload for longer-term licensed services available locally, meat the desire to grow fresh food throughout the amazing job. Summer crops have surpassed refrigerated storage. Salt Spring farmers production will soon be restored to the winter, or to extend the growing season in all expectations and preparation for the plan to have only one docking station, and 2004 level and eventually surpass it if the general. After a visit from Linda Gilkeson, winter garden is underway. As the school would like butchering to be on the same demand for local food continues. author of Year-Round Gardening, and a children come back from the summer break site. For information about the Salt Spring cold-frame building workshop, we were they will be introduced to the greenhouse. Island farmers have had to take all Livestock Producers project, contact ready for something big. With the financial There are plans to have greens growing all livestock and poultry to Vancouver Island Margaret Thomson at [email protected] support of Vancity, Galiano Trading, and year round as well as the opportunity for since the 2007 changes in the meat or 250-537-4669. 0 Stevens Excavating, that opportunity has kids to grow their favourite vegetables from finally arrived on Galiano. seeds next spring. The Galiano Community In January 2010, Genny Stirling and I School has chosen food as a focal point for were asked to coordinate the creation of the the entire academic year and everyone is TRINCOMALI CHANNEL— greenhouse. This was our first task as the excited to have the greenhouse as a new REPLACEMENT OF SUBMARINE Food Program’s first youth interns. We dove learning tool. in head first and six months later we The new Community Greenhouse is a TRANSMISSION CABLES emerged with dirt on our hands and life true opportunity to grow gardeners with the When: Mid-August through December 2010 lessons in our pockets. Working with the skills to feed themselves throughout the school board, school staff, the CRD, the season. It can also be a great place to Galiano Club, our wonderful foreman John experiment with more exotic fruits and Pending approval from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, BC Hydro Parfitt, and all the fantastic volunteer vegetables that are generally shipped from will be replacing undersea transmission cables between Salt Spring Island labourers, taught us more than we could afar. This year we are having great success and Parker Island starting in mid-August. These cables are part of the have imagined. Everywhere we turned we growing luffa sponges, a plant belonging to electrical transmission system that connects southern Vancouver Island found support for the project and patience the gourd family! Many of our community to walk with us through the process. gardeners have already been inspired to to the Lower Mainland. The greenhouse itself is 16’ by 20’, made build small greenhouses at home and I feel Crews will be removing two existing submarine cables and installing of 3mm polycarbonate plastic and has an that this momentum will only grow. two new cables in the existing right-of-way in Trincomali Channel. aluminum frame. It has four roof vents Please come visit the greenhouse; you are which open and close automatically personally invited. To learn more or join us During the work, there will be barges with cranes, a cable-laying vessel, depending on temperature and two doors in gardening, you can find us at tugboats and workboats in the water in Trincomali Channel and near the on the south side. The structure was www.galianofoodprogram.ca or call 250- purchased as a kit from BC Greenhouse 539-2175. 0 cable terminal stations on Salt Spring Island and Parker Island. There will Builders who generously donated delivery. also be trucks and crews working on land at the cable terminal stations on Salt Spring Island and Parker Island. Trust Council meets on Bowen in To ensure the safety of the public and workers, the contractor will restrict public access around the active work sites. We thank you for September your patience and co-operation while we undertake this important work. The Islands Trust Council will hold its next decisions, including the proposed work quarterly business meeting on Bowen program for the coming quarter. Highlights Island. The public meeting starts Tuesday, of this session include the review of a Construction Activity Schedule September 14 at 1pm and is expected to shoreline assessment project used on Thetis (subject to change) finish by 11am on Thursday, September 16. Island and a decision to embark on a new Land work at, and water work near, the cable terminal Mid-August— Trust Council invites members of the project associated with the Green Shores for stations on Salt Spring Island and Parker Island December 2010 public to participate in a town hall session Homes program. There will also be a session that will start at 1:30pm on Wednesday, with Bowen Municipal Council to review a Removal of cables from Trincomali Channel Late August— September 15. At this time, the public may joint protocol, provide updates and discuss Late September 2010 discuss issues, ask questions and make issues of mutual interest and concern. Installation of new cables in Trincomali Channel Late September— suggestions about the work of the Islands The 26-member Council makes Mid-October 2010 Trust. An application to make a formal decisions about overall policy, staff presentation must be approved in advance resources and financial management for the by the Executive Committee and is due by Islands Trust and has broad responsibilities For More Information August 30. to uphold the Islands Trust mandate. Trust If you have questions regarding this work, please contact BC Hydro Other Council sessions, which are also Council does not make local land use Public Consultation and Stakeholder Relations at: open to the public, will include: a food decisions, which are the responsibility of the security discussion in which trustees will local trustees within their respective local Phone: 604 623 4472 receive information about Island food trust areas. Toll-free: 1 866 647 3334 systems and consider opportunities to A copy of the agenda package for the address challenges in the Trust Area; a September Council meeting will be available Email: [email protected] review of the 2008-2011 Strategic Plan to for viewing at the Victoria, Salt Spring and 2427 inform the next annual budget; a Gabriola Island Trust offices after presentation on riparian area regulations Wednesday, September 8. 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RTI from page 9 additional processing opportunities. The machine will be travelling around Vancouver Island assisting other community recycling programs with their EPS recycling needs as the program expands. Whale tale ~ Julie Johnston A wonderful childhood friend came from Alberta to spend her vacation with us, all excited about the possibility of seeing some orcas. After attending the Mayne Island Fall Fair, she and her husband were relaxing at Georgina Point when they spotted their whale! A telephoto lens showed it wasn’t quite the type of whale they were expecting to see! (See photo, right.) Bicycle Survey Salt Spring Islands’s Bicycle Working Group invites locals and visiting cyclists to participate in an online survey funded by the Salt Spring Island Transportation Commission. Results will determine who’s cycling here, where they are going, their Island cycling experiences, and how the Photo: Kathy Shabada situation can improve. This information will help to determine routes for paved bike lanes and the possibility of Full breach! Sighting of a suspected Orca whale mutation in Active Pass, telephoto taken from Georgina partnerships with regional, provincial, and federal agencies Point, Mayne Island. Or have the whales taken to fooling the tour boats? (See story, left.) for funding a proposed Salish Sea Regional Trail Network, a truly world-class cycling/intermodal circuit. children’s area and self-contained community meeting includes distribution of buttons that say ‘I give rides!’ or ‘I The survey is on the Bicycle Working Group blog: room, as well as space for triple the collection of books and take rides!’ so people can connect with each other at the www.ssi-bicycleworkinggroup.blogspot.com or a printed multi-media items. To date, more than $150,000 has been different homes on the tour. There will be green reusable copy can be picked up at the Visitors’ Centre in Ganges or raised from the community towards the building fund. signs at all the Carstops for getting rides specifically to tour PARC office at 145 Vesuvius Bay Road. Mayne-ly up Guided Hike houses. Tour information and car pool details are at According to BC Ferries’ bicycle ticket sales, this year’s On Sunday, September 5, CRD Regional Parks guest ecohomesnetwork.com. bicycle traffic is about double last year’s and that does not naturalist Michael Dunn will lead an all ages guided hike to Plastic Bags ~ Christa Grace-Warrick include bicycles brought on and in vehicles. the summit of Mount Parke on Mayne Island. All you need Stephanie McDowall emailed a link to a U-tube Support for Galiano Library Plans is sturdy shoes, a snack and your own drinking water. There mockumentary that is a joy to watch. Titled ‘The Majestic A $30,000 School Community Connections Grant is are many treasures to discover along the way and you will Plastic Bag: a mockumentary about a mysterious helping advance development of a new community library see some of the best views in the Gulf Islands. To join the migration’, it will serve as a reminder (or will convince you) not to ask for plastic bags; or, if you are a grocery store, not at the Galiano School. The grant will fund activities of the free guided hike, simply meet the group at the Kim Road to provide them. Galiano Library Society, the CRD and Gulf Islands School access shortly before 1pm. The hike will last about 3 hours. I have been a bit taken aback by Thrifty Foods policy of District to develop detailed cost estimates and conduct Please leave pets at home. For more information call 250- providing brown paper bags but, in an amusing gentle way, public consultation and community outreach on their plans. 478-3344 or visit www.crd.bc.ca/parks. this video now convinces me that this is a good interim step The community library is currently housed in 400 square Low Impact touring on the way to total use of reuseable bags or baskets. feet of rented storefront, but the preliminary plans outline Getting around to the various homes on the 2010 Pender The link, through Straight Goods, an online independent a new 2,400 square foot building that will extend the role Island Ecohomes Tour just got greener and easier, with the newsmagazine is: of Galiano School as a community hub. More than a library, creation of an online RideShare signup for the Tour. Tour http://www.straightgoods.ca/2010/ViewArticle.cfm?Ref=740. the new building will include an internet centre, art gallery, organizers efforts to reduce the numbers of cars on the roads terry Fox run Get ready to run, bicycle, rollerblade, ride a stroller or wheelchair in Ladysmith on Sunday, September 19. The Southern Coastal BC? has got it covered! 2.5km loop, 5km, 10km routes will accommodate all. You’ll register for the 30th annaul run at the Ladysmith Community Centre at 10am. The run starts at 11am. Muffins Need to cast a and juice will be available following the run. 0 TAMIL REFUGEES from page 2 criminals and queue-jumpers. But for the most part, the wide net for Vietnam war resisters were welcomed, and went on to make a valuable contribution to Canadian society. Much the same can be said of the Vietnamese boat people who arrived in your business? the late 1970s. 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SATURNA from page 12 JAZZ from page 7 archives. appearances, instrumental and vocal talents, and comfort strong and free prevailed over their good neighbours). The audience wanted to glean from Frank the technical with their chosen turns at trumpet and reeds. They were Nobody choked or spluttered, but some fans cast their eyes and social process when someone comes to you with a box also featured in the High Sierra Jazz Band’s hour, a canny to their shoelaces. or album of photos that they want recorded. Frank move by veteran leader and MC Pieter Miejers, who knows The day was concluded by the great Dixieland Express mentioned that he had finished copying the family’s photos a great thing when he sees and hears one! Band led by Norrie MacFarlane and his team of just two weeks before the Murikami homestead on Salt (All Bria’s Big Bang Jazz Band instrumentalists were A- accomplished players and singers. I sat in the rear row in a Spring burned down. OK—and I’ll save them for a subsequent review. Bria’s delightful packed, tiered venue to hear them in the last Three summer students, Errol Bruce, Terrance Hall and parents are mainstays of the Chiliwack Jazz festival, and performance of the day, and noticed an American couple in Tyler Stolting are working on FAB this summer setting up Bria is on the board of directors.) front of me paying special attention to the band, heads the computer systems that will take people on visual tours, The New Orlean’s Ale Stars with Vancouver’s multi- keeping time with feet and hands, and they later told me scanning photos and many other magical things that will talented Simon Stribling, as leader, were fresh, spirited and that they had discovered the band and its banjo player that help the group inform and delight the public. were outstanding in performance. The band also included day and had followed it all over Port Angeles to listen, and The Salt Spring Archives opened in 1989 and is open 7 Evan Arntzen on reeds and vocals in that group. Simon’s would do so for the next two days also. Borgy had been hours a week in the Public Library building. Staffed by about wife Laurie did her good work on the drum kit, and discovered, at last! A fitting end to a day which jarred me 20 volunteers, and an annual budget of $3,000-$4,000. encouraged Simon to keep moving right along. ‘No damage out of my critical stance against ‘jazz festivals’ because of The archive has 100,000 photos, newspapers and audio clips. was done’ by that fine group either—as Eddie Condon used good content, organization and joyous audience. Marshall Sharp has bequeathed an archive of 40,000 to phrase it. It is regrettable that ‘jazz festivals’ must be dealt with in images of Salt Spring and the Gulf Islands. A government The American-based bands were pleasurable in commercial ambience by using all manner of musical grant has enabled the archiving of these images to begin. performance, and quite polished, and certainly not chopped entertainment to pay the bills, but as MacLean’s Martin Galiano is also progressing with recording its images and liver. But in my jingoistic perception the Canadian bands Patriquin concludes as he writes of the necessity for historical data. led all the rest! inclusion of odd pop groups,‘It’s part of the reason there’s Frank was a great help. Clearly, the most important And so hours passed quickly, without musical boredom any jazz at all.’ ingredient for success of a public archive is enthusiastic or surfeit of sound, and new respect for classic jazz festivals Eds Note: This year will be the first on which Saturna’s volunteers who are willing and able to take on the many was the order of that day. The older band leaders were all Labour Day Jazz Dance will not be held. The marvellous tasks involved and see an opportunity to extend their skilled at the art of bandstand patter, and the audience event was put on by Paul White, for many years single- interest in local history. A diverse volunteer base also danced on the sidelines or listened raptly to the wonderful handedly, and latterly with the assistance of the Saturna assures that the project truly reflects the many people who sounds of surprise that came from intense meditation— Concert Society. Over the years Paul also held Jazz have come and made Saturna their home. 0 even when Bria couldn’t resist reminding her audience of Evenings where he cooked and served a meal appropriate the Winter Olympic hockey finals (at which the true north to the genre of jazz on which he lecturing. A true fan. 0 Page 16, ISLAND TIDES, Sept 2, 2010

Photo: Henny Schnare, www.henny.ca An eagle’s eye view from Mount Maxwell on Salt Spring Island.

RAIN HARVESTING SYSTEMS Morton applies for expired salmon feedlot licenses TANKS & LIQUID HANDLING COMPONENTS Salmon Feedlots in the Broughton tenure and are not surveyed, considered Archipelago are operating on Crown Land short term, non-exclusive, non-registerable tenures that have been expired for years, and intended for only ‘minimum says biologist Alexandra Morton. improvements.’ In late August, Morton applied for ‘A disturbing lawlessness surrounds this expired licences in order to ‘return them to industry, they post ‘no trespassing’ signs on their natural state to grow wild fish to the non-exclusive leases that they let expire. On much greater benefit of British Columbians April 1, 2010 they slammed the door on and the BC economy’. government inspection for disease, while Crown Land is public land that the their pathogens free-flow into our richest Ministry of Agriculture and Lands (MAL) fish habitat. This industry was unlawfully leases to people and companies. MAL is also given to the province to manage, and it Complete Rainwater Handling in charge of regulating the salmon feedlots. appears to let these companies do whatever Component Packages ‘I don’t know how these foreign they want. Privatizing ocean spaces and companies can be in full production for owning fish in the ocean is unconstitutional years on expired tenures, but these sites are in Canada; is that why the leases have not the fishiest places in the Broughton where been renewed?’ asks Morton, ‘It is time we we once found the highest concentrations of find out what is the relationship between herring, salmon, prawns and other species,’ this Norwegian industry and all levels of our says biologist Alexandra Morton, ‘I have government.’ made detailed application to MAL to use ‘The Musgamagw Tsawataineuk Tribal these sites for what they have done so well Council fully supports Alexandra securing for 8,000 years—grow wild fish to the these leases for safe-keeping as a means to benefit of the people, the economy and preserve wild salmon stocks and the future generations who might appreciate integrity of our eco-system. We look forward the food security in the years to come.’ to working side-by-side with her on this,’ N E W Morton’s applications recognize how the states Chief Bob Chamberlin. natural architecture of the sites perform to Morton thinks people in Nootka Sound, produce up-wellings, tide lines and back Port Hardy, Discovery Islands and eddies that attract and feed valuable public Clayoquot Sound should also look into fisheries, including prawns, rock cod, wild whether those leases are expired. Contact salmon, herring and other species. Some of ‘Front Counter BC,’ she suggests. the salmon feedlots violate provincial ‘Bottom line is: wild fish belong to us and aquaculture-free zones. She writes in the if we don’t take a stand and look after them applications: ourselves no one else is going to,’ says ‘I offer that my intended use better serves Morton, ‘there are a lot of rotten politics Crown Land’s mission statement ‘to provide around this. I hope this year’s legendary Wholesale Distributors to Contractors & DIY’s for over 40 years the greatest benefits for British sockeye return reminds people of just how Columbians.’ valuable wild fish are to us.’ 0 DEALER OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE ‘The salmon feedlots had ‘Licences of Occupation,’ which are a lesser form of