The Tyee. Andrew Nikiforuk is almost always a good read, and in today’s column he provides a metaphor that we can adapt and use everywhere we want change to happen. “Salmon Nation” fosters local initiatives that promote “regenerative development” in a bioregion stretching from Alaska to northern California. The name comes from its historic and present day connection to the five species of salmon that knit the region together. In fact, the initiative shows us how to change anything that interferes with the lives we wish to lead in this or any other ecological or political region. Its emphasis on local action is paramount. It is portable to issues from equitable sharing of resources to housing. Nikioruk interviewed Ian Gill, one of the founders of Salmon Nation. “The kind of innovation and risk-taking we really need, says Gill, is ‘not going to happen in the centres of power. Premier John Horgan doesn’t want to change the way of the world,’ he adds. ‘Nor does Justin Trudeau. They are not interested in system change. They are the system.’ In fact history has repeatedly shown that change mostly gallops from the hinterlands; it rarely emerges from a place like Ottawa or Washington, D.C.” A verbal signpost to where we need to focus. [ARTICLE LINK]