By Don White. Maybe it was the August break. At their first regular meeting on August 31, members of Nanaimo Council were sufficiently relaxed to let show their willingness to take personal responsibility for moving our city forward. In fact,… Continue Reading →
The Tyee. Although the focus on beach tourism may not closely fit Nanaimo, the concept of rising local sea levels in the coming 50 years certainly does. We will experience the same higher levels as Vancouver. Consequently, Nanaimo Council may… Continue Reading →
CBC. This initiative seems also of benefit to other towns and cities like Nanaimo. Not just for identifying local hot and cool zones, but for informing official community plans and remedial action on the need to include cooling tree canopies… Continue Reading →
By Don White. My previous article drew parallels between global and Canadian responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and the looming environmental crises. But similarities are not the only distinctive aspects; there are also important differences. One difference is that Canadian… Continue Reading →
By Don White. Two recent articles on COVID-19 give spot-on assessments of mistakes we made in dealing with the virus and the opportunity this same crisis gives us for dealing with even larger problems. The first is a review of… Continue Reading →
By Don White. With a year and a half of the current Council’s four year term completed, it’s time for Nanaimo voters to begin a review of how things have been going. By now, those elected to the Council should… Continue Reading →
The Tyee. If you are looking for some thinking on how best to move forward in Nanaimo – or anywhere else, for that matter – you won’t go wrong by including this in your background reading. [ARTICLE LINK]
The Tyee. Issues and decisions all of us will face, in cities big and small. The big question is whether we will attend to them. [ARTICLE LINK]
The Tyee. This review is definitely worth reading, not only because it is of a novel about another plague in another place and time written by one of the significant thinkers of the 20th century , but because the review… Continue Reading →
By Don White. If you think there is nothing you can do individually to help speed us through the COVID-19 pandemic, no way you can help us arrive at our hoped-for economic recovery – just stay home, wash your hands… Continue Reading →
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