Arts and Culture
By David Suzuki On on Wednesday Jul 15 2020
Diversity is strength. That’s true in nature and human affairs.
But recent painful events have shown society has yet to grasp this. The appalling deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Toronto’s Regis Korchinski-Paquet, Chantel Moore from Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation and many others — all at the hands of those tasked to serve and protect — have ignited awareness of the...
By The Conversation On on Wednesday Jul 08 2020
By Ian Lowe, from The Conversation
Documentary maker Michael Moore’s latest offering, Planet of the Humans, rightly argues that infinite growth on a finite planet is “suicide”. But...
By Contributor On on Monday Jun 29 2020
Bouldering, a popular form of rock climbing, is trending in the West Kootenays like never before, partly thanks to the release of the area’s first Bouldering Guidebook.
Rossland-born and raised filmmaker Liam Barnes films Nelson rock climbers Tosh and Tula Sherkat as they navigate the area’s biggest and most difficult climbs, including several historic first ascents,...
By Contributor On on Monday Jun 29 2020
Many of my friends consider me a cosmopolitan guy, a world traveler, a literary connoisseur.
They’re very misguided.
I’ll admit that during our collective self-isolation I am enjoying a few classic books but I think their perception is based on the fact that I also enjoy critically acclaimed, international, and, yes, even Canadian film. Hardly proof of sophistication. I’m...
By Charles Jeanes On on Tuesday Jun 16 2020
Indigenes and Incomers
What freedom we possess! To live as an individual, with choice to create one’s own singular culture! Where else in the world can people do this? Canada, a land colonized by massive immigration from Europe, is lucky indeed to be one of the few. People like me are unlikely to live anywhere but...
By Charles Jeanes On on Tuesday Jun 09 2020
Part II
Cultural Revolutions and Wars, changing millions in swift strokes
Culture is a small word to cover a phenomenon encompassing just about everything humans do and think and express, all things about us that are not of “nature.” Change culture and you change humans, is pretty much the assumption.
Intellectuals and...
By The Conversation On on Monday May 04 2020
Editor’s Note: This article is just over a year old, thus contains no mention of COVID-19; readers can add our...
By The Conversation On on Monday Mar 16 2020
By Kendra Coulter, for The Conversation
My favourite police officer on television is smart, empathetic, attentive and brave. He’s also incredibly handsome.
I’m talking about Rex, the fictional police canine played by the German shepherd Diesel vom Burgimwald who co-stars on CITY TV’s hit show...
By Sara Golling On on Monday Dec 23 2019
Things to help us feel better are welcome during a season that can be hectic, stressful, demanding – and, for many, isolating and lonely. The demands of holiday entertaining can raise blood pressure levels and jangle nerves.
Soothing music, designed to be calming and healing, might help, and is guaranteed to cause fewer problems than resorting to the anaesthetizing effects of alcohol,...
By Contributor On on Wednesday Nov 27 2019
Scott Fraser, Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation; Regional Chief Terry Teegee, BC Assembly of First Nations; Cheryl Casimer, First Nations Summit; Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, Union of BC Indian Chiefs; and Adam Olsen, MLA for Saanich North and the Islands and member of Tsartlip First Nation, have issued the following statement:
“Today, we have made history. British...
