Visioning Nanaimo

By Don White. Now that the question of Nanaimo city council remuneration is assigned to a special task force reporting back to Council in 2020, a clear understanding of council duties and responsibilities should be high on everyone’s agenda –… Continue Reading →

By Don White. I know my going back to the 2019 motions of Councillors Brown and Hemmens for ensuring gender parity and providing childcare might seem like beating on a long-dead horse. But there are important lessons for going effectively… Continue Reading →

By Don White. Full confession off the top: I found it hard to get here, to work down to – and write about – the core of what disturbed me most about the gender parity, childcare debates in the December… Continue Reading →

By Don White. Just a quick note to let you know that the issue of gender parity on Nanaimo Council and City committees, along with the parallel issue of the City providing childcare, have not been forgotten. It has taken… Continue Reading →

By Don White. Some of the best learning happens serendipitously, and I just had another of those lessons. It came from thinking about the contentiousness of two recent City Council motions to promote gender parity on committees and provide childcare… Continue Reading →

By Don White. Nothing makes me despair more for the future of our species than dogged adherence to traditional, mutually-impoverishing gender roles. Exactly that seems to be the basis of many reactions to two Notices of Motion for the next… Continue Reading →

By Don White. If nothing else, results from the recent federal election reveal pronounced regional disparities across our country. Differences that will, no doubt, be the source of ongoing discord for the next four years. But that’s only to be… Continue Reading →

By Don White. Nanaimo City Council’s rejection of the proposed development for 388 Machleary Street is both a victory and a challenge. It represents a victory for defenders of existing community plans and a crucial, even vital, challenge for our… Continue Reading →