Occupy Victoria
As the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement shifts across borders, grows and develops, a group in Victoria has been working toward its own Occupation. (The two folks to the right Continue Reading →
Category Archives: VictoriaBC
One Local’s Heresy
Full disclosure, that local is me. What’s my heresy? That I am not all that sad about the decline in tourism in recent years. I am a little sad that Continue Reading →
Best Art Class Ever
In grade 10, my friend Anna and I approached our art teacher with an idea: we didn’t want to do the same art everyone else was doing. We were both Continue Reading →
Disaster Planning
Last night, I was online when the quake hit Japan. I got the notice through Facebook and immediately switched to Twitter for real-time updates. We turned on TV for coverage Continue Reading →
Freedom to Snow Day
While I did make an effort to get to work, there was ongoing trouble with transit buses all over the region including 4 tangled at the foot of the next Continue Reading →
New Seeds!
The garden planning and preparation has begun in earnest now — much earlier than last year in the hopes that we can get some early crops in and get some Continue Reading →
Of Blizzards Past
OK, really just one, and it wasn’t exactly a blizzard as much as a record-breaking dump of snow. The winter of 1996 was remembered for one thing, snow that totally Continue Reading →
Flakes
Victorians are routinely mocked by the rest of Canada for our collective inability to deal with below-zero precipitation. My only comment on that is that we seldom get the chance Continue Reading →