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Jung Society Explores Shadow Jan. 11
In the middle of the muddle of wrapping up Christmas/Solstice celebrations, reflecting on our...
Read MoreResisting the Heat
I was on the Island this August. The haze that dimmed noon to dusk and that drove Air Quality off scale – the worst on the planet for a time – was a shock, as it must have been for many. I have been working on and around...
Read MoreOn The Line
After finish reading Rod Mickleburgh’s new history of the BC Labour movement ‘On the Line’, the first emotion I feel is anger. Anger at how the apparatus of the State, through the decades and at the behest of robber barons,...
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Election 2018
All candidates were sent four questions from the Island WORD: 1. Do you support the Regional...
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CURTAIN CALL
By Martin Crilly It starts, most often, in the summer doldrums. In the kitchen. Up on the bluffs,...
Read MoreCrossroads Part II
by Danny Zanbilowicz This fall represents a turning point. In October there will be a provincial referendum on whether or not we switch our electoral system from “first past the post” to “proportional representation”. The WORD...
Read More3L at Crossroads
by Danny Zanbilowicz The issue right now concerns the two processes for dealing with a proposed amendment to the Regional Growth Strategy- “standard” or “minor”. An amendment is by default considered “standard”, unless it is...
Read MoreEmerging into Lyme
Emerging into Lyme Lyme disease is now the most common vector-borne disease in Canada and the USA. Caused by the bacterium Borellia burgdorferi and transmitted by the bite of an Ixodes tick, Lyme disease is increasing rapidly in...
Read MoreInclusive liberation
Inclusive Liberation May 5 is Bevrijdingsdag – Liberation Day – in the Netherlands. The festivities are concentrated here in Wageningen because this is where the Canadian General Charles Foulkes took the German army’s surrender...
Read MoreColonialism: over there or underfoot
It’s not a word the Dutch have much trouble with. “Yes, of course we had colonies and got rich from them.” Most would likely be able to say this without a shudder. Many live in fine houses, some more than a century old, built...
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News from the Comox Valley Hospital
by Barb Biley For over five years all the events leading up to the opening of the new Comox Valley...
Read MorePolitical Cultures
by Michael Loevinsohn That’s 130 degrees east of Cumberland, and many meters lower. That’s where I’m writing from: a town called Wageningen in the middle of the Netherlands on one of the branches of the Rhine. A university town,...
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