Webinar recap: How three municipalities are designing for social wellbeing
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The Islands Trust Policy Statement, and how it’s veering off-course
In July 2025, the Islands Trust Council gave the first reading of the draft Trust Policy Statement. This reading was…
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HNC Feature: Building social connections in practice
Hey Neighbour Collective, Happy Cities and SFU Renewable Cities hosted Building social connections in practice, a national training cohort for…
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Living Together 2025 in Action
In early May, we gathered the people and organizations who inspire us, challenge us, and align with our vision, all…
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Living Together 2025 Symposium Wrap-Up
In May 2025, Hey Neighbour Collective gathered over 200 incredible people for two days of learning, connection, and collective action….
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The Weirdness That is Victoria Resident Parking
Donald Shoup, the author of the high cost of free parking and a god-like figure in the urban circles that…
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Brotherless Night – Go Read
I grew up in Chennai in the 80s and got to witness the Sri Lankan civil war from just across…
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59. Reflecting on Lyme disease in Canada with Janet Sperling
Janet Sperling is an entomologist, researcher and president of the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation. During her early years studying entomology,…
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My kid loves statistics and 15 minute cities
We have started this simple diary where my 7 yo tracks each of her trips and categorizes them as car…
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Choices for 2024
I’m not much of a resolver, resolutioner, whatever the word may be. But my phone did show me these very…
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Big Wool and Fast Fashion
Source: Big Wool wants you to believe it’s nice to animals and the environment. It’s not. This is an interesting…
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Leftover milk solids chocolate balls
When you make ghee, and are careful enough not to burn the batch, the milk solids that are filtered out…
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Roasted rutabagas are awesome!
This week unlike other weeks, I picked up that rutabaga I usually avoid at the grocery store and it paid…
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Why Deport Jaskirat Singh Sidhu?
Source: Federal judge dismisses latest bid to stay in Canada by trucker who caused Humboldt Broncos crash | CBC News…
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American Caste and ’90s flashbacks
Always like when I’m validated for something I said 25 years back Source: Isabel Wilkerson I moved to the United…
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To Read! Dark PR by Grant Ennis
I love the War on Cars podcast for its great content detailing how cars and cities aren’t BFFs. And I…
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Stuff I read 04-Sep-2023
An occasional roundup of news I found interesting, with even less occasional commentary! Particularly important due to the enormous climate…
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How BC Could Tax Soaring Property Values for the Public Good | The Tyee
Alex Hemingway has a great post on one part of our housing puzzle, how to fairly tax people on their…
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Research notes on defunding the police, from Halifax
The hard work of an important committee in Halifax has recently come to fruition. The Subcommittee to Define Defunding the…
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Islands 2050: What will the Gulf Islands look like in 25 years?
The preservation and protection of BC’s Gulf Islands “for the benefit of residents of the trust area and of the…
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Adventures with Red River : Part I
I posted this on social media last week and an interesting conversation ensued. I was hoping someone would take the…
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UVic’s Sexualized Violence Policy Review – we want your feedback
Do you want to have your say in what sexualized violence response, prevention education and support services look like on…
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The many boats of climate change
Their (the IPCC’s) dramatic report on keeping that rise under 1.5 degrees C says the world is now completely off…
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Media: HR Reporter on Gender Identity
As a result of our work with BC Transit, Ambit made the pages of the May 2018 issue of the…
