6 - Island Tides

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6 - Island Tides

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Volume 21 Number 20
October 8-October 21, 2009
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Tide tables
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Garden calendar 2
Internet
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RTI
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Saturna
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All that jazz
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HST
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Bulletin board 11
Fire ban lifted but
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Photo: Karolle Wall
A Lion’s Mane Jelly and an Opalescent Nudibranch in the Retreat Cove eel grass beds.
Second Intervention may save the day for Gabriola Radio
Vista Broadcasting has joined Gabriola’s John Hague in filing an second
intervention in Rogers Broadcasting’s application to expand Victoria’s
100,000 watt CIOC 98.5FM, Ocean Lite Rock.
If permitted, Roger’s new transmitting tower on Salt Spring would take
away the last channel on the West Coast suitable for the fledgling Gabriola
community radio station.
The application has also stepped on the toes of Vista’s Duncan radio
station. Vista Radio’s Intervention cites the fact that a new expanded service
would cross over Rogers allowed service area into the area broadcast to by
the Duncan station, CJSU The Sun.
Gabriola Radio President Ken Zakreski thinks that the two interventions
will squelch Roger’s application to the Canadian Radio and Television
Commission (CRTC). ‘These type of out-of-market signals are generally not
supported by the CRTC,’ commented Rob Bye, radio station manager for
Nanaimo’s CKWV The Wave.
Rogers had stated its primary goal with its expansion was to better service
However, Vista’s engineering report, filed by its V-P Bryan Edwards, points
out that it is clear that the proposed synchronous transmitter will not greatly
improve reception of CIOC-FM’s signal in the Saanich Peninsula, and in fact
will create serious reception problems by extending the signal northnorthwest into another market.
It turns out Vista have also noticed that Salt Spring’s Mount Tuam lies
between the Rogers tower site and the town of Sydney. ‘FM is basically line
of sight transmission,’ said Zakreski, ‘with Mount Tuam in the way, Sidney
won’t get better service, I don’t think its a case of sloppy engineering by
Rogers, as much as this was their best shot and it fell short. Lucky break for
Gabriola Radio, we’ll wait to see what the CRTC decides.’
‘The CRTC may overlook one set of concerns but when two disparate
parties object for different reasons, it gets harder for the commission to
overlook the arguments expressed. I am now giving Gabriola Radio a better
then 50-50 chance of winning this round with Rogers’, adds Zakreski.
Gabriola Radio is hoping the CRTC will permit them to re-apply for
CKGI-98.7 at 60 watts. It’s earlier application was withdrawn because of a
technical objection posed by Rogers. A decision on the Rogers application by
the CRTC could take two to six months. 0
Effective at noon on Friday, October 2
2009 and until further notice, Category 1
and 2 open fires are again permitted
throughout the Coastal Fire Centre.
The lifting of the Category 1 and 2 ban
applies within BC Parks and to all public
(Crown) and private land outside of
organized areas. It does not apply within
municipalities or regional districts that
have their own burning bylaws or bans.
Please check with your local authorities
before lighting a fire.
These Category 1 and 2 bans have
been rescinded because the fire danger
in the Coastal Fire Centre has been
lowered by recent rainfall and cooler
temperatures. Campfires and Category 3
fire restrictions have also been lifted.
Any person who lights a fire must also
comply with the Ministry of
Environment’s Waste Management Act
and Open Burning Smoke Control
Regulation which can be viewed at
www.gov.bc.ca/env. This Act requires
individuals to check local venting
conditions prior to ignition.
When conducting yard clean-up and
burning, the public is advised to choose
their fire site carefully and follow these
tips:
• Make sure that the fire site is away
from buildings, trees, and combustible
materials.
• Be aware of windy conditions that
OPEN FIRES, please turn to page 11
Commentary by Elizabeth May
From cod to salmon: when do we ever learn?
British Columbia may have no other animal as
iconic as the wild salmon. Creature of deep
forest streams, raging rivers and open ocean,
the wild salmon feeds the ecosystem from soil
to grizzly, sustaining jobs and culture. That
such an emblematic species should be
struggling for survival speaks volumes about
the state of our whole living world.
As the news of the 10.5 million missing
Fraser River sockeye hit the news headlines last
month, I was reminded of the warnings that
were ignored of threats to the North Atlantic
cod. In the late 1980s, I worked with others,
including the organized in-shore fishermen of
Newfoundland and Labrador, who argued for a
reduced quota to protect the species.
The larger corporate players with their
enormous off-shore draggers were dismissive
of the in-shore fleet. In essence, they and
government said the problem in lower catches
in the in-shore was that the smaller operators
needed to modernize to improve their ‘fishing
effort.’
Within Department of Fisheries and Oceans
the prevailing belief system (and I chose the
words deliberately, as it was as much a religion
as science) was that there was a vast ‘spawning
biomass.’ Based on a mathematical calculation,
DFO brass persisted in refusing to accept the
evidence of the local fishermen.
Within DFO were the brave ‘heretics’,
scientists like the late Dr Ransom Myers, who
defied the spawning biomass theory. By the
time the rest of the scientists woke up, they
faced politicians who insisted on maintaining
dangerously high quotas. And thus, to maintain
the economy, they killed it.
Then, overnight 30,000 were made
unemployed as the Minister of Fisheries
SALMON, please turn to page 8
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For the second time since 2001, federal governments have
introduced legislation that would increase the powers of law
enforcement organizations to trace internet crime, and reduce
judicial oversight of such investigations.
The two acts, introduced in June 2009, have catchy titles: the
‘Investigative Powers for the 21st Century Act’ and ‘The
Technical Assistance for Law Enforcement in the 21st Century
Act’. Combined, they would require Internet Service Providers
(ISPs) and Telephone Service Providers (TSPs):
• to disclose subscriber information to law enforcement or
CSIS officers without the requirement for a warrant. This
information would include name, address, and identifying
equipment numbers;
• to install surveillance capabilities within their systems; and
• to collect and store ‘transmission information’ on
telephone, Email, and web accesses by specific subscribers over
specific periods, on request by specially authorized law
enforcement or CSIS officers.
While no warrant would be required to initiate the collection
of such data by the ISP or TSP, a judicially authorized warrant or
production order would be necessary to allow police access to the
data collected.
The government says that the proposed laws respect the
rights of individuals to ‘a reasonable expectation of privacy’. The
government has emphasized that the legislation does not require
the general monitoring of transmission data or content of all
subscribers; only those for which specific requests are made.
Warrants to access the information must be issued by the
courts, which would require evidence of ‘reasonable grounds to
suspect’ before they could be issued.
The legislation is said to be similar to that introduced by the
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Internet and cellphone surveillance would be increased
by proposed legislation ~ Patrick Brown
ho peascods delighteth to have with the first, if now
ye do sow them, I think it not worst.
—Thomas Tusser, 1557
This is the month to sow and plant hardy fruit and vegetables,
and as Tusser says, winter peas sown now will provide an early
spring crop. This is especially true of snow peas, so named
because they can be seen pushing their shoots through a late
February snowfall. The same philosophy applies to broad beans
(favas) and sweet peas which grow much better than if left until
March. Unless you have a greenhouse it is too late to sow most
other vegetables, but while the earth is still warm you can still get
a continuous crop of rapini, mesclun, winter lettuce and many
collard greens. Otherwise, if you hurry you can buy plants of
commercially grown winter broccoli, celery and other temperate
vegetables for a late winter dinner. October is also garlic month
but it may be better to wait until the days are cool before planting
these bulbs. Like many grasses, garlic grows fast in cool damp
weather and if you plant it early it may get too tall and become
subject to frost damage.
Summer-sown broccoli, rapini and Chinese cabbage (Bok
choy, Sui choy and so on) are ready for harvesting now through
December. Similarly root vegetables grown during the summer
can generally be left in the ground until needed. Carrots and
beets especially taste far sweeter than those that are dug up and
stored. Carrots, parsnips and beets all have thin skins and tend
to dry out quickly when stored. This is particularly true if they are
kept in the fridge which is a very dry environment. Much better
to take a garden fork and dig them fresh while the water is
coming to a boil.
The warm September sun has prolonged the season for many
summer vegetables and a bed of peas, that I dug in a couple of
weeks ago and planted with broccoli, is now sprouting again so I
may get a double crop through November and December. This
has been a very good year for many fruit trees and we have seen
bumper crops of apples and plums. This means that the trees
and the ground they stand in will be tired. After the leaves have
fallen this is the time to prune them back and re-shape them for
a sturdier growth next year. Rake up the leaves and top dress the
ground with a dusting of lime, wood ash and bone meal to
encourage root growth through the winter. A good mulch of
manure or well rotted compost will also provide nutrient and
protect the ground from freezing.
October is also the ideal month for planting fruit trees and
bushes. Buy from local growers those varieties best suited to this
climate. They will not require much watering or attention over
the winter but always provide a deep, wide trench with lots of
compost. Many fruit trees grow well in clays soils but if this is
what you have you must dig an open ended trench to allow water
to drain away otherwise the trees may stand the risk of drowning
after a heavy rain.
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Despite this assurance of safeguards, both federal and provincial
privacy commissioners have expressed alarm. The Freedom of
Information and Privacy Association observed: ‘We have no
objection if police and security forces have the same ability to
intercept and monitor email and wireless communication that
they currently have to intercept and monitor letter mail and
conventional telephone communication. But the lawful access
proposals go far beyond this to propose much greater license to
intercept and monitor, and with a lower standard of judicial
supervision.’
Federal Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart
commented: ‘Canadians put a high value on the privacy,
confidentiality and security of their personal communications
and our courts have also accorded a high expectation of privacy
to such communications … the current proposal will give police
authorities unprecedented access to Canadians’ personal
information.”
‘We feel that the existing legal regime governing interception
of communications—set out in the Criminal Code and carefully
constructed by government and Parliament over the decades—
does protect the rights of Canadians very well,’ said Ed Ring,
Newfoundland and Labrador’s Privacy Commissioner.
The privacy commissioners recommend that when new
powers are introduced, Parliament ensure that they are
‘minimally intrusive’ and include a five-year Parliamentary
review. 0
Late fall is clean-up time in the garden and after that final
killing frost most leaves and dead plant material can and should
be composted. If you are like me, planning new garden beds for
next year, you can simply dig out the ground and bury the leaves
where they are to stay. Or they can be raked into a pile and mixed
with a little top-soil and lime to encourage decomposition.
Do not burn leaves, they are usually wet and will only produce
a lot of smoke. And do not pile them up against a tree as this will
keep the tree trunk damp and may cause rot damage to the bark.
The exception to composting are any diseased leaves and
branches such as black spot on apples or roses, and these should
be burnt to kill the fugal spores.
In the flower garden geraniums and any other tender
perennials must be moved indoors before it gets too cold. If you
have time, the best way to ‘harden’ them off is to take them in at
night and place them out again during the day, similar to what
you do in spring. This way the plant is gradually introduced to
the warm dry climate of your home.
Still in the flower garden, this is the time to plant bulbs. Dig
and fertilize the ground thoroughly before planting and firmly
press the earth around the bulb to give the developing roots good
contact with the soil as it is the roots that grow before the shoots
appear in January and February.
As with bulbs, So with winter and spring biennials.
Wallflowers, alyssum, forget-me-nots, pansies and primulas are
in the garden stores now. The first three named will usually
naturalize if left through the summer and the ground beneath
our roses is green with seedlings that simply need to be thinned
out a bit and perhaps introduced to other areas of the garden
where a splash of winter and spring colour will be welcome.
A Dish of Beets
This amazing dish was created about four hundred years ago
when the domestic oven was invented and home-baking became
a fad. Typical of the times it combines sweet and savory flavours
such as we find in traditional thanksgiving dinners.
Prep time about 20 minutes
Baking time about 30 minutes
Serves 4 (unless you are hungry)
Preheat the oven to around 350
½ kilo of fresh beets, boiled, peeled and chopped
A hand full of breadcrumbs
A hand full of currants
2 Tbls fresh grated ginger
2 Tbls light brown sugar
2 Tbls butter
2 cups grated Cheddar
The beets can be precooked anytime beforehand—please don’t
use canned ones! Excepting the cheese, place all the ingredients
in a bowl and mix well. The easiest way is with your fingers. Place
in a casserole dish, top with the grated cheese and bake until the
cheese is brown and bubbly. For variety I sometimes throw in a
chopped crisp apple and add a dash of pepper and/or nutmeg.
This dish can be used as a side vegetable with chicken or pork, or
it can be used as a main course with fresh bread and a salad.
RECIPES, please turn to page 11
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Round The Islands
Mental Wellness
One of five Canadians will have a
mental health challenge during their lifetime.
Despite its prevalence, it is still a taboo subject.
We will talk about cancer or an appointment for
a prostrate exam but we will not discuss mental
illness. Mental illness impacts us all whether it
is the cause of the domestic dispute down the
street, the homeless person on the corner, or a
friend suffering from depression. It is only
through communication and sharing that
communities can overcome this problem.
Bringing mental illness out of the closet and
up for discussion is the intention of the Outer
Gulf Islands Working Group on Mental Health
with the assistance of the CRD and the health
care societies of Mayne, Pender, Galiano and
Saturna islands. Their first project for the public
is the theatre presentation of ‘That’s Al Folks’.
Written and performed by Alan Weeks, the
Saturna Notes ~ Priscilla Ewbank
Jill Moran
one-man play is a look into Weeks’
experience with schizophrenia. It
presents, with honesty and humour, the
many facets of his behavior, moods and the
roller-coaster of his mental health journey.
Equally as important as the play is the ‘café’
which follows. This round-table discussion is an
opportunitiy for lively and heartfelt
conversations about the stigma of mental
illness, personal experiences and hopes for
education, honesty, communication, and
support in our communities.
‘That’s Al Folks’ took place on Pender Island
on September 25. Mayne, Galiano, and Saturna
Islands will host the event in late October and
November.
The Outer Gulf Islands Working Group on
Mental Health has also produced a brochure
entitled ‘What to do if someone needs emotional
care’. It is a list of resources and services available
both on individual islands and those offered by
broader-based organizations. Look for it at
Island medical clinics and other locations.
Will The Eagles Be
Coming Back?
in to the world around me. I too eat wild salmon
when it comes my way. In my freezer, I still
have two big salmon caught in Camano Sound
two years ago. Eating them looms larger and
larger in my mind.
One March we counted 33 eagles in the
branches of the surrounding alders and the
cedar snags that poke out of the pond on our
farm. As our Saturna Ecological Education
Centre has a new campsite to the west of this
pond, principal-teacher Steve Dunsmuir and I
are charting when eagle activity is high and
when are they nesting and needing quiet.
When can the students build a blind without
disturbing the parents who use the nest in the
big fir beside the pond and when should they
stay away or watch from a quiet distance? What
human behavior is conducive to coexisting with
eagles given all of the other potential calamities
You have probably noticed a distinct lack of
eagles on our Islands recently. Soaring about
chirping or screaming with their big white
heads they, like the whales, are always thrilling
to watch. The sky is empty without them.
So, where are those eagles right now? They
have piloted themselves over to mainland or
Vancouver Island estuaries and are eating the
salmon who have come home to spawn in their
home rivers and are dying and washing up on
the shores. This rich eating provided by the
salmon cycle occurrs just when eagles are
getting ready to be fertile and just before the
colder temperatures of winter.
So right now, they’ve mostly ‘gone fishing,’
just like humans. Like the eagles, I eat to live; to
keep my heart beating, brain robust and clued
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In the House of Commons last Friday, the federal Liberal
party stated that they had no confidence in the minority
Conservative government, and initiated a vote with the avowed
intention to defeat the government and to force a general
election.
Their motion lost, 144 to 117. As one would expect, the
Conservatives voted against it. The Liberals and the Bloc
Quebecois voted for it; the NDP effectively supported the
government by abstaining altogether.
While it has been said that ‘politics makes strange
bedfellows’, this is one of the strangest pairings. Liberals and the
Bloc, bitter rivals in Quebec, share one bed; Conservatives and
NDP, ideologically poles apart, share another. It is hard to
imagine that loving intercourse took place in either; political
promiscuity is more like it.
It is also, of course, hard to believe that such combative,
partisan unanimity exists within each of the parties; it is
particularly unusual for all the NDP MPs to find themselves
totally unable to express an opinion.
Some will say that the price for this astonishing silence is the
introduction by the government of changes to Employment
Insurance; some will also say that this horse-trading is how a
minority government works. Some will say that the media is
ignoring the really useful work that is being done.
Nonsense. This has not even the appearance of government;
it is irrelevant bedroom farce. It is a waste of the nation’s valuable
time.
Canadians, disgusted, can only say ‘a pox on all your houses’.
It is time that they not only said so, but expressed their real needs
loudly and forcefully. Their continued silence just encourages
these parliamentary shenanigans. 0
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The following letter was sent to the BC Ministry of Housing and
Social Development on September 14.
Dear Minister Coleman:
The Land Trust Alliance of BC has more than 90 members
groups, including 30 land trusts and another 23 associated
stewardship and land management non-profit organizations
throughout the province. Each have hundreds to thousands of
members in their organizations across many BC communities.
Over 500,000 acres of land throughout the province is currently
protected by land trusts. These areas include lands that are used
for public education, recreational access, protection of
biodiversity and species at risk, and also include farms, ranches
and other private lands with significant environmental features:
riparian areas, species at risk, areas of high biodiversity, and
those maintaining essential ecosystem services—conserved
through conservation covenants or through outright ownership.
We are encouraging your ministry to re-consider the
elimination or cut back to environmental organizations of BC
Gaming funding for the following reasons:
1) the environment is the foundation of human health and
well-being—the more we protect it, the cheaper it is to provide
the ecosystem services that humans require for life—fresh water,
healthy food, healthy climate and air, pollution clean-up and all
the other Ecosystem Services that the International Millennium
Ecosystem Assessment authors have estimated is currently
below 40% stable.
2) It has been demonstrated by economists that engineering
projects to restoring degraded areas can cost up to 100 times
what it would cost to have conserved the area.
3) There is considerable employment in the environmental
sector: as funding is cut back to these organizations, layoffs will
increase costs to BC in terms of social services, housing, and
other loss of employment consequences
4) According to ‘Taking Nature’s Pulse’, the scientific report
on the Status of BC’s ecosystems, the need to protect habitats and
biodiversity is urgent in BC (more than 42% of identified species
are listed as of provincial conservation concern in addition to
likely reductions of ecological services .
5) As reported in our 2008 report ‘Mitigating and Adapting
to Climate Change through the Conservation of Nature’, by
economist Sara J Wilson, and ecologist Richard J Hebda,
protecting intact ecosystems, is the highest priority in terms of
shielding us from climate change.
6) Protecting, restoring, and promoting natural ecosystems
is a cost-effective method to achieve significant health and
education goals. In education, research has shown the students
with access to natural areas have tested higher in sciences, math,
and social studies (American Institutes for Research, 2005) and
are more aware of nutrition, more civil to one another, and
played more cooperatively (Bell & Dyment, 2006).
As climate change and other impacts from the degradation
and over-use of BC resources is a prime concern at this time, we
encourage the Minister to reconsider the priority areas—as
outlined in the letter of August 27, 2009. In order to maintain
and sustain the province’s communities and quality of life, it is
essential that environmental organizations be put on the priority
list for groups to be funded through the Gaming Commission.
Land Trust organizations provide direct stewardship on
lands, public education about stewardship and environmental
protection, and legal protection of lands through conservation
covenants and acquisition. The link between outdoor activity,
improved health, and resulting health care savings is well
known.
Our members protect and promote the natural areas that will
help control the Province’s health care costs in the future. Other
environmental programs such as recycling, waste reduction, and
greening our economy also need to be able to continue their
programs, through funding from the BC Gaming Commission,
including sustaining the staff and organizational capacities they
Please move environmental organizations to the priority list,
so that they may continue their important programs of benefit to
the entire BC public.
Sheila Harrington & Kathy Dunster, Land Trust Alliance of BC
Keep Our Lighthouses
Dear Editor:
Nearly a hundred years ago four men were swept to their deaths
off surf-pounded rocks in the Hecate Straits, risking their lives to
build a lighthouse. They are among many in a life-saving
tradition on the BC coast. They built this lighthouse with cement
walls 18 inches thick, intending for it to last forever. It likely
won’t if you don't write to your government representatives
demanding that lighthouses continue to be staffed.
This is being proposed to cut costs. To put the cost issue in
perspective, lighthouse keepers are among the lowest paid
federal employees. It costs less for the government to keep a
single prisoner in jail than it does to pay a lighthouse keeper. Full
time lightkeepers give an unbelievable portion of their lives to
their work, they are on duty 24/7 watching for mariners in
distress, monitering radios, and providing weather reports,
including special ones. They have been designated as an essential
service by the federal government, the same government who is
proposing to destaff four stations in the next two months, and
continue with a de-staffing program for all the remaining light
stations.
The last time de-staffing of Canadian west coast lighthouses
was announced to the world, four freighters full of smuggled
illegal migrants attempted to land in isolated areas of the west
coast of Vancouver Island. On this coast, where many areas are
uninhabited, it is in the best interests of national security to have
a significant non-military government presence such as that
which lightkeepers can provide.
If tanker traffic should ever be allowed in the inside waters,
such as your federal and provincial government is planning to
allow in the near future, along with tankers carrying natural gas,
such as what is being proposed for Texada Island, every possible
precaution must be taken to avoid irreparable damage to our
coast, such as oil spills and mega-ton natural gas explosions
could cause.
In this time of a changing climate, weather patterns have
been erratic and less predictable, therefore, current observation
and special reports are often needed. Lightkeepers are an
important source of accurate, scientific, daily records of weather
collected along the BC coast for Environment Canada,
something needed when everything depends on understanding
the effects of climate change.
Reports of localized conditions, such as the tide rips around
Cape Mudge, are an essential service. Every place that has a
lighthouse has its own special hazard that much be watched for,
and many mariners are uninformed of.
It is said, by proponents of the de-staffing program that the
lighthouses are automated with the latest technology. This is
misleading. For example, many of the stations are currently
without operating foghorns. Mariners and aviators must rely on
calling the keepers of these lightstations to ask about fog.
Equipment has already been cut back, is mostly antique, and
people using these lights rely on their keepers more than ever.
So, it is important to all people living on the BC coast that the 27
remaining staffed lighthouses remain in operation.
Greg Hewett, Quadra Island
Exporting Power to California
Dear Editor:
Last time I checked, which was about six months ago,
California has still not paid British Columbia for BC Hydro
power already supplied. This is from a few years ago now. As
well, the state is bankrupt. How are they going to pay?
Eventually they won’t.
I do not believe in allowing private companies to have our
rivers to generate hydro-power and then export it to the US.
Steph McDowall, Nanaimo
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4th Annual Stewardship Day Fair—‘Supernatural Natural
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‘Western Painted Turtles’ by Chris Engelstoft, displays, info,
gardening with native plants, book give-away • Community Hall •
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Thanksgiving Weekend Family Fun Swims—enjoy the
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Jones & Maruri Cello & Guitar Duo—Galiano Concert
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Sat, Oct 10 & Thurs, Oct 15 & 22
Tuesday, October 27
Pender Film Group Screenings—SAT OCT 10: Waterlife
(2008)—following Great Lakes cascade from Lake Superior to the
Atlantic, the last huge supply of fresh water on earth; THU OCT
15: O Horten (2007)—the life-changing retirement of 67-year-old
train engineer Odd Horten; THU OCT 22: Mad City Chickens
(2008)—a look into raising chickens in the city • 7:30pm unless
otherwise noted • Community Hall • Admission by donation •
Info: www.penderislands.org • ON PENDER ISLAND
Viola’s Golden Girls—fun & free workshops
designed especially for women as an opportunity
to learn about managing money in a relaxed,
neighbourly setting and complimentary tea;
October Topic: ‘Protecting Your Money - What Are
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Fri & Sat, October 16 & 17
Balkan Babes Island Hopping!—lively
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with the haunting harmonies of Eastern Europe;
recent winners of the pan-traditional category of
CBC’s national choral competition • SALTSPRING:
Fri, Oct 16: United Church; PENDER: Sat, Oct
17: Community Hall • Doors 7pm, show 7:30pm
• Tickets: $15/$12 available at the door • ON
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Rowed Trip: From Scotland to Syria by Oar—Canadian
adventurers and bestselling authors, Colin and Julie Angus show
their newest film and book Rowed Trip: From Scotland to Syria
by Oar, based on their oar and bicycle trip; 7 months, 7,200 km,
13 countries • Nanaimo Museum, 100 Museum Way • 7:309:30pm, doors 7pm • Tickets: advance $14, student/senior $12 at
Nanaimo Museum & Valhalla Pure Outfitters; at the door $16,
student/senior $14 • Info: wwwangusadventures.com • IN NANAIMO
Wed thru Sun, Oct 21 to 25
Oona and Dream Deep—’Honey and Holy Water’ CD release
tour marking International Week of Climate
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Climate Change, Resilient Islands’ Gathering Of, By, For
Islanders—16 Gulf Islands community projects plus Guy
Dauncey, Neil Dawe, Karen Lanphear (Idaho ‘transition’
communities), Sheila Malcolmson, Briony Penn • GISS, Ganges •
8:30am-5:30pm • $30 includes lunch • Info & registration: Dave
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LETTERS from previous page
Waking Up To The HST
Dear Editor:
I am surprised and ashamed of us which probably just makes me
naive. What was I thinking?
I thought that casting votes was important but over 50% of
the BC voting population obviously didn’t think it was worth
doing. Stupid me.
I thought that the killing-off of the salmon was a crime of such
gross negligence that the BC people would rise from their couches
and demand a change to DFO, the provincial government and the
fish farm industry. Barely a whisper. I was convinced that the
wholesale sell-out of our natural resources (Bute and Toba IPP
projects) to the cronies of General Electric—including the water—
would put most Canadians on full rebellious alert! Not so.
The silence is numbing. I thought that the proven lies and
criminal prosecutions of our elected officials and their friends
would disgust and revolt us. It didn’t. We are too used to that kind
of political shenanigan. And, I realize that I am a fool.
But then they made their big mistake. The politicians pushed
us too far. They attached our wallets and this time, not in the
hidden ways they currently employ (carbon tax, raised gasoline
and liquor prices, hidden transit taxes, cutbacks to services).
This time it was blatant. They wanted to harmonize another
penny or two from the citizen’s beleaguered dollar. Our
restaurant bills would go up! Whoa, Nellie!
They can exploit and destroy our environment and we’ll roll
over. They can lie and steal and interfere with the courts and we’ll
watch TV. They can mismanage everything they touch (P3s,
Convention Centre, Olympics) and we accept it.
But take another penny from our dollar and watch out! We
taxpayers have our limits and they aren’t moral or ethical or even
Thurs, Oct 29 thru Mon, Nov 9
Crystal Journey Presents—a musical, vibrational and colour
journey through our solar system with 10 Paiste Planet Gongs,
Quartz Crystal Bowls and Vibraphone; CAMPBELL RIVER: Oct 29:
Ocean Resort; COURTENAY: Oct 30:
Old Church Theatre; QUADRA: Nov 1:
Cape Mudge United Church; SALT
SPRING: Nov 2: Salt Spring Centre of
Yoga; MAYNE: Nov 3: Community
Centre; VICTORIA: Nov 6 & 7: Victoria
Conservatory of Music; NANAIMO:
Nov 8: Unity of Nanamio at Ecole
Oceane School, 12:30pm; GABRIOLA: Nov 9: Community Hall,
7pm • All shows 7:30pm unless otherwise noted • Info:
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Friday, October 30
Delhi 2 Dublin Halloween Dance Party—5-piece band fuses
tabla, electric sitar, fiddle, dhol, and Punjabi vocals with
scorching electronic beats of Bhangra, Celtic and dub flavors •
South Galiano Community Hall • Doors 8:30pm • Tickets $15 at
Daystar Market • Info: 604-767-9269 • ON GALIANO ISLAND
Round The Islands
from page 3
Dream Deep for Climate
Change
In support of the International Week of Action on Global Climate
Change and various grassroots environmental programs, Salt
Spring Island singer-songwriter and Celtic harpist Oona McOuat
and her band Dream Deep are presenting a series of concerts
which will also introduce their new CD, Honey and Holy Water
(see ‘What’s On?’, page 5 for details).
Concerts on Mayne, Pender, Salt Spring and in Victoria and
Duncan will feature special guests, include Patrick Smith and
Bryce Woolcombe of Pender’s Calliope, international marine
ecologist Jeff Ardron, Zimbabwean singer James Mujuru and
Island schoolchildren performing pieces learned at the music
and nature workshops being lead by musicians throughout the
week.
A part of the proceeds from the event on Mayne Island will go
to the Gulf Islands Centre for Ecological Learning. On Pender
Island, the concert will be a fundraiser for the Parent Advisory
Council, with some of the proceeds dedicated to green school
projects such as the new learning garden.
350-International Day of Climate Action
350—as in parts per million—is the level scientists have
identified as the safe upper limit for CO2 emissions in our
atmosphere. 350 is a symbol where we must stop to preserve a
habitable planet.
In Demember world leaders meet in Copenhagen to construct
a new global treaty on cutting emissions. The expiring Kyoto
treaty does not meet the severity of the climate crisis—it doesn’t
pass the 350 test.
October 24 a planetary day of action on aims to unite the
global community and demand that political leaders are held
accountable to achieving the 350 goal. Around the globe and
around the westcoast, people are gathering in a grassroots
campaign dedicated to building a movement to unite the world
around solutions to the climate crisis. Visit www.350.org to see
the global events being planned.
On Hornby Island, friends and neighbours will gather by the
tennis courts at Tribune Bay beach. They will form a human line
illustrating the 40ft contour, the level to which sea level will
eventually rise if global warming continues unabated. Ecological
disruption, reduced ecological diversity, ground water pollution
through salt water intrusion, and increased weather disruption
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Fri to Sun, November 6, 7 & 8
20th Annual Nanaimo Professional Craft Fair—62 crafters
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Nintendo Wii Family Fun and Fitness System, wheelchair
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Unbelievable! We finally woke up collectively over the HST.
If it weren’t so grotesque and embarrassing, it would be funny.
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BC Arts Council In Good Shape
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Dear Editor:
These are challenging times for BC’s arts and cultural
community. As Chair of the BC Arts Council, I’m writing to
assure you that all the members of Council are committed to
working with the arts community during this period of
unprecedented uncertainty.
Council recognizes that the future of the arts community
depends even more on creativity and innovation. To that end,
Council will strive to identify new ways to support the vital arts
and cultural sector, which plays such an integral role in BC’s
social and economic development.
In the last six months, the Province has demonstrated its
commitment to Council and its clients through two
extraordinary measures.
First, in March 2009, the Province provided $7 million in
supplemental funding to provide stability during the economic
downturn. Council distributed this funding to 250 operating
clients throughout BC.
Last month, the Province elected to use gaming revenues to
provide support to Council programs. As a result, the 2009/10
Budget Estimates do not include an appropriation from general
revenues. With resources from Gaming, Council will operate as
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Island life can become burdensome at times, and a post-partum
depression after the Labor Day Jazz Dance at Saturna was dealt
with at Hermann’s Jazz Club on Victoria’s View Street on the last
Sunday in September. Classic jazz at its considerable best was
offered by one of the finest bands in North America, and
accepted by those who knew how good it is. Appreciation isn’t
rocket science.
Jazz fans use the term ‘dixieland’ as a generic style which, in
infancy, blossomed in New Orleans to scatter seeds all over the
world in the first quarter of the 20th century. People with
passion for jazz resent the word somewhat. Not because of the
word itself but because of the casual attitude which has it applied
to any quality of syncopation in collective play and improvisation
by soloists, without respect to musical ability—which may range
from ridiculous to sublime. Guitarist and impresario Eddie
Condon had it right when he wrote a book titled We Called It
Music!
A Victoria band which hits classic jazz bang-on calls itself
Dixieland Express and plays at least once a month at Hermann’s.
It’s a tight working band of able players who won the Canadian
Collector’s Congress award for Canada’s best classic jazz
performance recording this year. The band transcends its
name—and should be heard.
The Jazz Age which heralded the American art form may
never regain craze status, but small bands of conventional
lineups—six or seven players with a front line of trumpet, reeds
and trombone backed by piano, drums, string bass and banjo or
guitar—will keep the music in the forefront of entertainment
despite the fickleness of commercial music.
On the Sunday cited, the able leader Norrie MacFarlane
(trumpet) led the group with his fine tone and melody
treatments of some jazz standards, including lesser known
staples. ‘Some Day, You’ll be Sorry!’, ’Wonderful World’, ‘Swing
that Music’ reminded the faithful audience of the wonder of Mr
Louis Armsrong, and the rest of the waterfront was visited, if not
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tone and intonation .
Banjoist Borgy Borgerson, trombone master Bob
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Arntzen each had turns at bat and hit pitches out of the vocal
park. Their instrumental work is masterful and satisfying, and
when interspersed with individual vocals, is as entertaining as
popular music gets.
The rhythm section was led by by Borgy’s chordal string
mastery over Tom Vickery’s grand piano—which (facetiously)
has progressed from ‘flailer’ to very fine ‘articulator’ over
decades. Don Cox, a retired (regrettably) military band player
provided a bass line with string bass, and I missed the fun of his
tuba which Hermann’s bandstand spatial configuration doesn’t
accomodate. An appropriate substitute drummer replaced
master regular Lou Williamson who recuperates from
inconvenience. Sooner is better than later.
In its earliest years, jazz was played for dancing, and
Hermann’s has a dance floor on which the lightfooted can prance
while the band plays on. Fast, slow and medium tempos varied
the program’s contents, and nothing prohibited dancing and
some did inobtrusively and well while most people listened
attentively. Food and drink are available and it may be a slight
exaggeration but, recalling words of a university math professor,
‘It’s got the world’s physical pleasures beat all to hell.’
A common phrase of this decade is—‘You had to be there!’
May I suggest that one should be there for any Dixieland Express
performance. You won’t be sorry, not some day or any day. 0
SATURNA from page 3
that can face a breeding pair of predators? We are helped by the
work of David Manning from Pender Island, who has gotten
some small grants for locating and charting all of the eagle nests
on the Outer Gulf Islands.
By the end of October, early November the mature adults
start coming back to their nesting areas, hanging out together
and working at rebuilding nests—they often have several. The
juveniles—those under four or five years old—disperse farther
and for longer. They don’t have territories, yet, or partners.
Locally, the native, non-migrating herring population up by
Denman and Hornby Islands is still an important food source for
our eagles after the salmon runs finishes.
In late January or February, eagles are mating and by March
they start to lay eggs—usually two—until about mid-April and a
34–35 day incubation period begins. Every hour, the eggs are
turned and the nester on duty may stretch and fly for a minute or
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are coastal global warming effects that must
stop. Mansons Landing, on Cortes, will host an event
on climate change awareness including a focus on local food, film
screening, and guest speakers. On Salt Spring Island the Gulf
Islands Alliance is presenting a day long event of speakers and
presentations (see ‘What’s On?’ page 5).
Carrot Mob - Not Local Food!
Photo: Christa Grace-Warrick
Pigeon greets the morning sun on a piling at Hope Bay, Pender Island.
Victoria, is planning a Carrot Mob Day for the International Day
of Climate Action. A Carrot Mob is a form of urban activism that
leverages consumer power to encourage businesses to adopt
socially-responsible practices.
Victoria’s Carrot Mob is looking for the city’s greenest coffee
shop. The organizers of the mob have asked coffee shops to make
bids promising to use a percentage of their Carrot Mob Day
profits to make their business greener through environmentally
friendlier operations, recycling, donations, etc. The winning bid
then receives the benefit of the Carrot Mob (hundreds or even
thousands of consumers) making purchases at their store on
October 24, the International Day of Climate Action. Profits in a
few hours can be double or triple that of a good day of business
not to mention the increased media and internet coverage
produced by the event.
The extra profits that the business makes from the Carrot
Mob will pay for the improvements promised. All of this is
accomplished through the power of social networking on the
internet.
See http://carrotmob.org/about/ for details about the Carrot
Mob concept and http://smallfeetinc.wordpress.com for more
info on the Victoria event.
Australian Politicians Still Playing Politics On Global
Warming ~ Richard Curchin
While the G20 met in New York and the world prepares for the
Copenhagen climate change meeting, Australian politicians are
still playing party politics on climate change.
Malcolm Turnbull, the leader of the Australian Liberal Party,
says that Kevin Rudd, the Australian Prime Minister, is more
interested in playing politics with the proposed emissions
trading scheme (ETS), than saving the ‘polar bears or the barrier
reef.’ Mr Rudd has said that if the Liberals block the ETS bill Mr
Rudd will use it as a trigger for a general election.
Unfortunately Mr Turnbull thinks that the Great Barrier Reef
and the survival of polar bears is what global warming is all
about. He just hasn’t ‘got’ global warming. As the world draws
nearer to climate disaster, drought, flood, famine and energy
shortage, a lot of Australia’s elected representatives and most of
the electorate still thinks that global warming means that they
could keep our current way of life at the expense of isolated
environmental losses like polar bears and the Great Barrier Reef.
Luckily the world’s top investors are better informed. They
realise that global warming will affect the survival of the whole
human population as well as polar bears and coral polyps. They
also realise that the changes that will be forced upon us all by
climate change are an opportunity to improve technologies, our
economies and even our way of life.
Now it’s up to the electorate to ensure that our elected
representatives understand the consequences of climate change
and the consequences of government inaction. It may well be too
late for the polar bears and the coral polyps but it isn’t too late for
us or our children providing we act now. We have to have elected
representatives that understand the seriousness of the situation
and that acceptable and exciting solutions are available. We have
to have elected representatives who understand the problem and
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ARTS AND LETTERS — HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR ANNUAL SURVEY OF DOCUMENTARIES CONVEYING THE POWER OF THE ARTS IN ASTONISHING WAYS
Trimpin: The Sound of Invention
(USA, 77 min.)
Peter Esmonde’s enchanting documentary profiles Trimpin, a singular artist
who’s been called “a magician, a mad
scientist and everything in between.”
Rebuilding salvaged “junk” into fantastical musical instruments and ingenious
installations, the gregarious composer/
inventor has dedicated his life to sonic
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experimentation.
Tibet in Song (USA/Tibet, 82 min.)
Under siege by Chinese pop culture,
traditional Tibetan music is fighting an
increasingly desperate battle simply to
stay alive. Director Ngawang Choephel
brings a deeply personal passion to
depicting this struggle. Winner, World
Cinema Special Jury Prize, Sundance
<TIBET>
2009.
Oct 11, Oct 12.
Argippo Resurrected
(Czech Republic, 65 min.)
Antonio Vivaldi’s opera Argippo was
lost for centuries and rediscovered in
2006. The glory of this film is not only
this story and the music; it’s the amazing baroque theatre where it’s staged.
Co-featured with Jan Klusák—Axis
Temporum (Czech Republic, 57 min.) <ARGIP>
Oct 9, Oct 11.
Oct 9, 10.
Porgy and Me: In the World of
Porgy and Bess (Germany, 86 min.)
In the (white) world of opera, Gershwin’s
alternately celebrated and controversial
piece it is one of the very few works
that takes people of colour as its subject.
Susanna Boehm’s film captures “the
passionate battle of African-American
artists for recognition, self realization
and equality” in glorious song. <PORGY>
Rocaterrania (USA, 74 min.)
A truly fabulous discovery! Ronald
Kuhler turned a scaring, deeply traumatic childhood into a fantasy world he
called “Rocaterrania” and, as an artist,
created a body of work—including a
language—that is both striking and
utterly unique. Brett Ingram leads us
through Kuhler’s astonishingly inven<ROCAT>
tive artistic landscape.
Oct 11, Oct 12.
Oct 10, Oct 12.
MONEY AND NATURE — DOCUMENTARIES OFFERING SHOCKING NEWS OF OUR TREATMENT OF THE PLANET, AND POSSIBLE REDEMPTION IN THE REDISCOVERY OF NATURE
H2Oil (Canada, 81 min.)
“An eye-popping exploration into [the
Athabasca oil sand’s] impact on local
water ecology and people’s health”—
CBC Online. Shannon Walsh’s stunning
documentary demonstrates that oil and
water are not only mutually incompatible, but that we eventually have to
choose one over the other.
<H2OIL>
Sweetgrass (USA/UK/France, 105 min.)
We All Fall Down (USA, 65 min.)
Finding Farley (Canada, 62 min.)
The annual journey of sheep from their
wintering grounds to summer pastures high
in the Beartooth Mountains of Montana
serves as the subject of Lucien CastaingTaylor and Ilisa Barbash’s hypnotizing
work. Panoramic and magisterial, the film
possesses a quotidian grandeur rarely witnessed in the modern world.
<SWGRA>
As the house of cards that was the US
mortgage system collapses from bad
debt and predatory lending practices,
the American dream of a house, a yard
and white picket fence has been foreclosed upon. Kevin Stocklin’s timely
and informative documentary looks at
how it all went so wrong...
<WEALL>
Leanne Allison’s documentary compares two views of Canada—that of
iconic Canadian author Farley Mowat,
and that of her adventuring family told
by walking and paddling in his footsteps.
<FINDI>
Oct 11, Oct 12.
Oct 13, Oct 15.
Oct 12.
Oct 13, Oct 15.
Sweet Crude (USA, 90 min.)
Projected to supply a quarter of the US oil
imports by 2015, the Niger Delta occupies an increasingly fraught position. The
conflict between local militants and big
oil interests has the potential to destabilize
the global economy. Captivating drama
ensues when director Sandy Cioffi becomes
immersed in volatile local politics. <SWCRU>
Oct 8, Oct 9, Oct 13.
Oldest landtrust turns twenty
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aliano Conservancy is the oldest land trust in BC. Over
the last two decades, it has been instrumental in
protecting over 500 acres of land on Galiano Island and
has inspired the formation and success of dozens of similar
community-based conservancies. So its 20th anniversary is a
milestone for community-based conservation, and it was
celebrated from September 17 to the 19 with a weekend full of
activities.
Velcro Ripper’s inspiring film, Fierce Light: When Spirit
Meets Action, shown at the Galiano community hall on
Thursday, September 17, was a wonderful kick-off for the
weekend. The film’s premise that a blend of creativity, activism
and spirituality in its many forms can bring about the change so
needed in today’s world set a theme that was reiterated over the
next two days.
At the wine and cheese reception at the Galiano Community
Hall, hosted by volunteers on Friday evening, Orissa Forest and
Karolle Wall’s presentations of underwater life bore witness to
the sensitivity of the marine environment surrounding the
island. Karolle’s videos, taken in Retreat Cove’s eelgrass beds,
focused on the incredible beauty, diversity and fragility of life
there. In one video, an opalescent nudibranch swam in perfect
time to the drumming and singing of a traditional
Hul’q’umi’num song by elder Florence James. Orissa’s
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off Galiano’s rocky shore featured swimming nudibranch,
octopus, crabs and fish in the kelp beds.
Christine Hawes presented a slide show of her remarkable
kayak trip from Galiano Island’s sheltered shores to Alaska’s
glaciers, powered only by human energy. Her trip took her from
the tiny creatures of Galiano’s sheltered shoreline to the bears
and whales that inhabit the northern reaches. Together, the work
of these three women enriched the audience’s sense of the
diversity of our coast.
In the Saturday morning sunshine, eighteen people—as many
as Loren Wilkinson’s beautiful ship Nina can hold—rowed
around Retreat Island and then enjoyed a tour of the island, half
of which is now a protected area owned by the Galiano
Conservancy.
The weekend culminated in a feast on Saturday evening. The
Community Hall was again full of Conservancy members and
friends who enjoyed Galiano-grown turkey, squash, salad, and
apple tart prepared by Martine Paulin and a host of volunteers.
Entertainment included an original tribute written and sung
by the inimitable Sandy Pottle, and a wonderful new puppet
show written by Carolyn Canfield and performed by Galiano
Conservancy staff members Patti Pringle and Pauline Brest van
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declared the cod ‘commercially extinct’ and ordered the
moratorium, which is in place to this day.
The crisis in BC salmon management is not new. Reports,
reviews, and studies on the state of the fishery by commissions
and international panels would fill a small library. What is new
is the startling failure of the Fraser River sockeye after scientists
had so confidently predicted record returns for 2009 based on
counting at least 130 million sockeye smolts in tributaries to the
Fraser River in 2007. Negotiations for quotas were based on the
scientific estimates for 10.5 million returning salmon. Lobbying
to have BC sockeye labelled as sustainable by the Marine
Stewardship Council was based on the estimates of 10.5 million
returning sockeye. It now appears the return will be fewer than
two million fish.
What Happened?
As in any engrossing mystery, we have a long list of suspects.
The advent of intensive salmon aquaculture has created several
threats to the wild fishery. (2009 marks the first time in human
history that more fish protein was consumed from aquaculture
than from wild fisheries.) The escapement of salmon, especially
of Atlantic salmon which is entirely foreign to this ecosystem,
sets up dangerous competition with the wild salmon. Salmon
farms create anoxic (de-oxygenated) areas due to over
fertilization, destroying benthic communities, while, at the same
time the intensive penning of animals has promoted the problem
of sea lice.
Another suspect is climate change. BC rivers are running
warmer and salmon are very sensitive to even slight changes in
temperature. At sea the impacts of climate change are also a
threat. According to Alanna Mitchell’s new book, Sea Sick, the
threats to our oceans due to the climate crisis dwarf its terrestrial
impacts. Then there are the threats from polluted waters, both
marine and land-based sources, loss of habitat due to logging to
the banks of streams and physical destruction of salmon habitat,
and over-fishing.
Given all this, the mystery is undeniably deeper, and the
science more complex, than in the case of Atlantic cod.
Are there any similarities? Are there any lessons to be
learned?
Sadly, yes. We have not ever really addressed the
dysfunctionality that is the federal Department of Fisheries and
Oceans. As the story of this year’s millions of missing fish was
unfolding it turned out that DFO scientists had the data in 2007
that the 2009 returns would be stunningly low. While the
Quesnel and Chilko Lakes and other tributaries had their
sockeye smolts counted, there was a later count in the Strait of
Georgia. It revealed that those teeming millions of juvenile
salmon had never made it that far. DFO scientists reported in
2007 than 2009 returns ‘may be extremely poor.’ This scientific
assessment was ignored.
I have seen this movie before. Ignoring worrying science,
allowing the DFO managerial class to set the policy and draft the
agreed upon script serves no one’s interests. On behalf of the
gillnetters, the group that have requested the judicial inquiry,
Bob McKamey stated, ‘This is the third year of disastrous
sockeye returns.’ (Vancouver Sun, Sept 19, 2009)
I could almost hear echoes of the voices of the Newfoundland
fishermen with whom I worked two decades ago in Mr
McKamey words accusing DFO of ‘epic mismanagement of
Fraser River sockeye, which has been regularly covered up. It is
long past time we got some honest answers. We don’t have time
to watch four more years of compromise and ass-covering from
here to Ottawa.’
The BC government has supported the call for a judicial
inquiry. Back in the 2006 election, Stephen Harper promised
such an inquiry. That promise is as hard to track as the millions
of missing sockeye.
We need an urgent inquiry into the state of the BC wild
salmon, and not just sockeye. We need answers to the obvious
questions: why was the more realistic appraisal of 2009 returns
buried while the anticipated 10.5 million prediction trumpeted?
We need a complete forensic review of decision-making in DFO.
We need more authority exercised in regional decision-making,
guided by science, and reduce the role of remote decisionmakers in Ottawa. We need more local engagement working
nation to nation with First Nations, while seeking the advice of
all fishermen regardless of gear type. Local and traditional
knowledge was accurate in Atlantic Canada, while the official
science was dead wrong.
If we act now, we may be able to ensure that BC wild salmon
do not go the way of the North Atlantic cod.
Elizabeth E. May is the leader of the Green Party of Canada,
candidate in Saanich–Gulf Islands and Officer of the Order of
Canada. She will be writing a regular column for Island
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Moratorium on HST, say Greens
The Green Party believes that provincial and
federal governments are dead wrong on
implementation of the Harmonized Sales Tax
(HST). The HST is a good idea being used in the
wrong way, it states. Simplifying taxation and
making tax collection more efficient benefits
Canadians. Using HST as an opportunity to
hide an increase overall retail sales tax is
dishonest, the party declares.
Erich Jacoby-Hawkins, Green Party
Ecological Fiscal Reform Critic comments, ‘We
support the simplification of taxes to reduce
costs of red tape, but do not support increasing
the total amount of sales tax revenue. The
government’s HST proposal simplifies taxes
but also raises them. We believe the HST rate
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SATURNA from page 6
eagles start incubating after laying their first
egg. The second, later-hatching chick only
survives if the food is abundant enough to
satiate the larger, senior chick—with left-overs
for the smaller one.
Ground-nesting birds are off and running in
the first day of their lives; many of their
behaviors are programmed in. Predator chicks
learn most of their behavior from their parents
and, like us humans are slower to mature! By
contrast to ground birds, eaglets spend up to
three months before they are fledged in midAugust. By September, the surviving newfledged young, the juveniles from other years,
and the adult parents are off fishing again.
Local Food Supply
Normally, about 10% of eaglets survive the first
five years. Adults can live up to 25 years in the
wild. However this year is different.
The Fraser River sockeye salmon return has
collapsed this year; 10.6 million sockeye were
expected to return but only 1.3 million did.
Salmon expert Alexandra Morton led a protest
outside the Vancouver Art Gallery on Saturday,
October 3 to call attention to the collapse and
how dangerously close to extinction the salmon
are becoming. Some Saturna folks went to join
in.
Having studied the life cycle of our local
eagles as it interacts with other species, I can
only hope that this year eagles, as they fly across
the Strait of Georgia will find enough salmon to
fuel their cycle of life.
Human Migrations
As it gets darker and wetter, older Outer
Islanders are also considering migrating to
lower than the combined GST and PST rates
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new tax rate. Under the HST some items that
were previously PST exempt will be subject to a
tax increase. We should examine these items on
a case-by-case basis to consider whether they
should also be HST exempt.’
‘As it is, the implementation of the HST will
hurt consumers and business and runs the risk
of deepening the recession. Restaurants and
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community likely to suffer real pain,’ said Green
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governments to step back and take a year to
review the areas of increased taxation, ensure
the economy is prepared and that Canadians
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anywhere in the world for a week, or for
months. Some folks here have several homes.
Unlike eagles, we have lots of stuff and
responsibilities. The logistics of leaving must be
like commanding an army. Do you have pets, a
job, a business, are you a chair of any
organization—and what about the begonias?
The trick must be to be as free as the birds—
have nothing you can’t leave; nothing that you
can’t find someone to care for. There is a
charmed period when your kids are grown and
footloose and fancy free. You can generally
entice or demand they come back and take care
of the homefront. But later their lives begin to
resemble yours with their own kids—your
grandchildren—and that option disappears!
Many of us face the same problem, so Island
resourcefulness takes over and each set of
travellers cobbles together a set of ‘replacement’
people willing to fill in their Island lives for an
interval.
Talent Night
Due to popular demand, we did have a
September Talent Night instead of the former
June show. After all of the years of community
talent nights, it looked as if it just wasn’t going
to happen. There wasn’t enough enthusiasm to
get it organized. Like our Fall Fair it would
become an event we used to do.
And then it did: eleven local acts, emceed by
Shawn FitzGerald, fully entertained a packed,
enthusiastic audience at the Community Hall.
It was a fast-paced mix of poetry, duets,
Saturna’s first band ‘Lyall Harbour and the
Plumper Sound Experience,’ authors reading
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from page 7
law and punishable by a fine.
The Ultimate Rowed Trip
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A old Island tradition has met
modern day reality. In the past two years more
than 15 cars on Bowen Island were easily stolen
because the keys were left in the igntion, on the
dash or in the sun visor. Because it is an island
and there’s no great escape beyond the ferry
terminal cars are stolen not stolen for long. Just
for joyriding, an easy ride home or for making a
quick getaway after a break and enter.
Leaving your keys in your car is against the
Colin and Julie Angus are the ultimate
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Individually Colin completed the first humanpowered circumnavigation of the world in 2006
and Julie is the first and only woman to row
across the Atlantic Ocean from mainland to
mainland. Together, the Comox couple have
completed a rowboat and bicycle trip from
Scotland to Syria and they will take their film
and book chronicling this adventure on a
‘Rowed Trip’ to 20 communities across Canada
including Nanaimo (see What’s On page 5).
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Notice of Application to
Volunteer as a Scrutineer & Voter Registration
North Pender Island Referendum
Magic Lake Estates Water Local Service Area Water Treatment & Water Systems Upgrades
Take notice that the assent of the electors is required with regard to Bylaw No. 3633,
"Magic Lake Estates Water System Loan Authorization Bylaw No. 1, 2009". Qualified electors of
the Magic Lake Estates Water Local Service Area, located on North Pender Island within the
Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area, will be asked to vote on the following question on
Saturday, November 14, 2009:
"Are you in favour of the Capital Regional District Board adopting Bylaw No. 3633,
"Magic Lake Estates Water System Loan Authorization Bylaw No. 1, 2009" to authorize
the borrowing of up to $2,560,000 for upgrading water treatment and water systems for
the Magic Lake Estates Water Local Service.
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be received at the offices of the Capital Regional District (CRD), P. O. Box 1000, 625 Fisgard
Street, Victoria, B.C. V8W 2S6 between 8:30 am and 4:30 pm from Wednesday, October 21,
2009 until Friday, October 30, 2009. Application forms and information on the requirements
and procedures for making an application are available at the CRD by telephoning toll free
1.800.663.4425 local 3129 or 250.360.3129 or at the address noted above.
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List of Registered Electors for North Pender Island will be available, upon signature, for public
inspection at the CRD offices listed below. You may also call the following offices to enquire
whether your name is on the List:
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Electors for North Pender Island. Voter qualifications are set out below. You may also register
on voting day if you meet these qualifications:
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RECIPES from page 2
Deep Fried Pears
This recipe goes back about seven hundred years is probably
French in origin and is ideal if you have a fist-full of left-over
pastry from making pies.
Prep time about 30 minutes
Frying time 10 minutes
Serves 4
A large fist-full of short pastry. Flaky pastry also does very well
1 large ripe pear
4 Tbls Seville orange marmalade
Granulated sugar & cinnamon
Preheat a fryer or place about 2 inches of clean oil in a skillet
and heat to medium hotness. Peel and chop the pear and mix
with the marmalade in a bowl. Pull the pastry into four portions
about the size of golf balls. Roll into circles and place a couple of
spoonfuls of the mix on each round. Wet the edges of the circle
and draw the sides into the centre. Pinch together to make a
pouch. Or, fold in half and crimp the edges together to make a
‘pasty.’ The pastries can be set aside on a floured board until
needed. When your company is seated and the oil is hot, gently
drop each pastry into the oil and deep fry, or fry on each side until
golden. Remove, drain and dust with sugar and cinnamon to
taste. These are really tasty but beware the fruit inside will
remain very hot for some time. Serve with a glass of cider (cyder),
hot or cold. 0
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of Democracy by starting to create a YouTube video about
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Youngsters can still get in on the contest which runs till
November 15. It is co-sponsored by Elections BC and the Public
Education and Outreach office of the Legislative Assembly, the
‘Democracy on Location’ contest invites students to create a twominute video about democracy in their lives at school, home or
with their friends. Student videos are to encourage youth
participation in democracy and illustrate the values and
principles of democracy.
The winning video will be chosen by Chief Electoral Officer
Harry Neufeld and the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, the
Honourable Bill Barisoff. The creator(s) of the winning video will
travel to Victoria to be interviewed for Hansard TV, tour the
Parliament Buildings and learn more about professional video
production and broadcasting.
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route of rivers, canals, ancient transportation corridors, oceans
and coastlines. including the Caledonian Canal, the Thames, the
English Channel, the Rhine, the Danube, the Black Sea and
stretches such as the worryingly named ‘Death Canal’. Over the
course of seven months the couple row, and occasionally towed
their boats by bicycle, through thirteen countries and explore their
ancestral homelands. Their film is Beyond the Horizon and the
book describing the same adventure is Rowed Trip.
Their goal is to promote human-powered transportation,
healthy living and environmental stewardship. All royalties for
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Kempen. The evening concluded with a panel on the past,
present and future of community-based conservation. Ken
Millard, coordinator of the Galiano Conservancy’s board of
directors for all of its twenty years, outlined the association’s
accomplishments. In his talk on community conservation today,
long-time director, Loren Wilkinson, returned to the theme of
combining spirituality, creativity and activity. Kate Emmings
concluded with an inspiring look at a future in which the work of
the conservancy will continue and be strengthened. Thanks to
Barbara Moore, Akasha Forest, Cheryl Bastedo, and all the
volunteers for their hard work. We look forward to the next
twenty years! 0
SATURNA from page 9
from the books they are writing, plus singers and guitars.
Jane Dixon Warren has put together Talent Night for years
and received a big round of applause as did also Robert
Montgomery, soundman extraordinaire. The sponsoring
Saturna Arts and Concert Society was delighted with the turnout
for the fundraiser. 0
OPEN FIRES from page 1
can spread sparks.
• Make sure there are enough people, water, and hand tools
ready to prevent the fire from escaping.
• Never leave the fire unattended and make sure it is
completely out before leaving the area.
• Be advised that, if the fire escapes, you may be liable for fire
suppression costs and damages.
The Coastal Fire Centre covers all the area west of the height
of land on the Coast Mountain range from the US/Canada
border at Manning Park to Tweedsmuir Park in the north, the
Sunshine Coast, the lower mainland, all Vancouver Island and
the Gulf Islands.
For more information on open fire restrictions or for updates
on current wildfire activity, visit www.bcwildfire.ca. 0
LETTERS from page 5
usual through the 2009/10 fiscal year with a budget of
approximately $11 million. All of Council’s decisions on grants
will be based on the independent peer review process with the
funds paid via the Community Gaming Grants program.
Council members regret that the recent funding
announcements created confusion within the arts community.
Council will work with staff and its colleagues in government to
ensure that future communication is clear and timely.
Council does recognize that due to the loss of direct access
support from Gaming, many artists and arts organizations face
difficult decisions. Council will continue to consult with the arts
community, staff and the Province to explore all avenues to
augment the grants budget.
In addition, the arts community should be assured that Council
will vigorously represent BC's artists and cultural organizations
during the budget process for 2010/11 and beyond.
Jane Danzo, Chair BC Arts Council
Dear Editor:
The single biggest threat to the economic security of Canada is
our focus on ‘curing’ disease rather than preventing it. We, like the
USA, are following a downward spiral, not because of our public
versus private models for protecting human health, but because we
have yet to realize that, like the railroads of yesteryear, we are not
in the sickness business, we are in the wellness business. (The
railroads survived when they discovered that it was not the railway
business but the transportation business that they were in.)
Mr Obama will surely prevail with his health care policies, but
to be affordable, as with governments elsewhere, the policy must
shift to prevention and cure of ‘root causes of disease.’ The
hospital, medical and pharmaceutical businesses must shift their
attention in these new directions also if they are to continue to be
relevant in a post-industrial society. The fundamentals of this
policy shift are available from The Green Party in the USA,
Canada and around the world.
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Wrong Health Care Model
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Good Life ~ Brian Crumblehulme
The Cutting Edge
A
couple of firs have been lying in the bush now for a yearand-a-half; drying and waiting to be removed to the
wood-shed. This past few days have been warm and
sunny but the mornings are misty and in a few weeks there will
be a light frost on the roof-tops, time to light a fire.
The stove was cleaned last week and even the kindle boxed
and sorted. Two days ago I waded into the bush and bucked most
of the logs into rounds before rolling them down the slope where
they could be more easily retrieved. Today is sunny again, the
frogs are ribbiting and the ground is damp but firm underfoot,
perfect for splitting.
I warm up with a few of the smaller ones first; just a single
split into two pieces, the splitting axe is almost too heavy for
them. Ten minutes is enough, it’s time to work on the larger
rounds, the ones that will make eight or ten billets. They are all
piled into a jumble so I have to check each one to determine
which way up they go, always split with the grain, not the other
way. I place the round up-side-down on the block and look for
knots. One strike and the round falls neatly in half.
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There are many ways to split
a log round but only one way
works best. If you tap the top of
the round as though hammering
in nails, it will take a few good
swipes before the wood gives
way. If you take the heaviest mall
and swing at it like Thor you will
split the wood and maybe the
chopping block too, and that also
is a waste of energy.
I like the Japanese way
approach best. The Zen of wood
splitting begins by focusing on
the centre of the log round,
where you imagine the axe head
should be. Then carefully
choosing the right spot, take aim
at the centre of the wood, not the
top and not the bottom, and with
exactly the right force, the steel
will cleave the wood leaving the
axe head resting gently on the
block. Not enough force and
wood will not split; too much
and axe head is buried in the
block.
I begin selecting and splitting
rounds. This is relatively easy;
the fir grew in a thick patch of
bush so there was no
opportunity for it to branch out
making great knots in the side. It
grew up into a straight pole fifty
feet high with a cluster of
branches near the top. After each
couple of swings I lay down the
axe and pick up the billets to
Photo: Janet Moore
throw to one side, partly out of a
A late summer hike on Brown Ridge, Saturna island
sense of tidiness, partly safety so
trees all striving to inch ahead of its neighbour and gain a little bit
I do not trip over them, but also to vary my exercise.
Without too much exertion and with frequent changes of more light to surge ahead. There are times when a little forest
rhythm, I can keep this up all day without overtiring. Throw from management can help sustain a better growth pattern, and there
the left, then sometimes from the right, sometimes with the right are times when it’s better just to leave them alone.
My pile of split billets is larger than the rounds so now I’m
shoulder, and again with the left. I don’t like to make a
methodical machine-like action out the work, but I do like to over half-way. A cackling laugh announces a couple of
woodpeckers overhead. A resident pair, they live here too. Just
achieve a sense of balance.
Suddenly I hit a knot and the axe bounces off the log round; think what they could do with a steel-tipped beak, the forest
not paying enough attention. I look at the round again and select would be reduced in no time, maybe. Well, for every tree I take I
another spot to aim for. The edge of the axe should miss the knot plant two more and leave a dead one for the woodpeckers, then
by a few millimetres and gently press into the centre of the wood perhaps they’ll leave my apples alone.
Finally, a note of caution: Airtight wood stoves are wonderful
with a satisfying crack.
I pay more attention to the next one; thirty five rings plus a inventions for efficient heating, but they can create a lot of
pith; that was the year we were married. Maybe that seed creosote in the chimney. If you haven’t done it yet, get it checked.
germinated when we were on our honeymoon. There’s nothing
The chimney all sooty, would now be made clean,
symbolic about it, just curious that’s all.
for fear of mischances, too oftentimes seen:
I look around at the forest and see a few hundred-year old
Old chimney and sooty, if fier once take,
giants towering eighty feet overhead, many lesser ones like this,
by burning and breaking, some mischief may make.
and around the edges, a thicket of five-to-ten-year-old Christmas
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Construction of the Capital Regional District’s new multi-use
pathway connecting Victoria to the West Shore is slated to begin
in this October. Development of the first phase of the Esquimalt
and Nanaimo (E&N) Rail Trail will entail a 14.3-kilometre
contiguous route from the Johnson Street Bridge in the City of
Victoria to Jacklin Road in the City of Langford.
Phase one of the trail will include construction of 6.6
kilometres of new trail within the E&N corridor and paving 2.5
kilometres of the Galloping Goose Regional Trail. The trail will
also initially connect to existing cycling lanes and sections of
municipal roads in Victoria, View Royal, Colwood and Langford.
‘Our goal is to construct as much of the trail as possible during
this first phase to ensure that we offer increased cycling
opportunities to commuters sooner rather than later,’ said
Christopher Causton, Chair of the CRD Parks Committee.
‘However, we are maintaining our original vision for the E&N
Rail Trail. CRD will continue to work towards a paved multi-use
pathway built entirely within the E&N right of way as funding
becomes available. Like development of the Galloping Goose and
Lochside regional trails, it will take time.’
Phase one consists of five construction projects:
· Paving 2.5 kilometres of Galloping Goose Regional Trail
from Atkins Avenue to Wale Road (October 2009). The
Galloping Goose will be closed at this section throughout
October
· 1.8 kilometres of trail construction from Jacklin Road to
Selwyn Road/Atkins Avenue intersection with connection to
Savory Elementary School (October–December, 2009)
· Bridge construction at Hereward Road and Old Island
Highway at Four-Mile Hill (2010)
· 2.5 kilometres of trail construction from Esquimalt Road to
Colville Road /Admirals Road intersection (2010)
· 2.3 kilometres of trail construction from the Colville Road
and Admirals Road intersection to Four-Mile Bridge (2010)
The development cost for phase one is estimated at
$11,860,000. It is anticipated that this portion of the rail trail will
be completed by the end of 2010. The estimated cost to construct
the entire trail is $22,700,000.
The completed E&N rail trail will be a cycling and walking
pathway built within the rail corridor from the Johnson Street
bridge in Victoria to Humpback Road in Langford. The Rail Trail
will provide a multi-use transportation link between Victoria and
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