Frederique and Sinclair Philip of The Sooke Harbour House are hosting an art auction and tea today from 1-4 p.m. to benefit the Women in the Woods. What a great idea: a linkage of sustainable economic and agricultural activity, site-specific tourism (vs. 3rd world-manufactured “disney” style doo-dads flogged downtown to the tourists), local art, and […]
Living north of the 49th parallel means long, long summer days. Come to think of it, I don’t actually live very far north since Victoria must be slightly below the 49th. This is my first full year back here, however, and sometime in June I noticed that I was increasingly out of my mind: buzzy, […]
Warren Kinsella‘s July 30 (make that Aug.1) entry is a biting commentary on fundamentalists’ interpretations of Leviticus and the supposedly unlawful nature of same-sex marriage. Meanwhile, the Vatican is in the news, urging Catholics to oppose same-sex unions. This has one Canadian bishop bugling in the cavalry and proclaiming that Jean Chretien (who is Catholic) […]
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