A story about cIt usually makes sense to start a story at the beginning but as of late, my focus has been more off than usual so I think the best thing to…Sep 16, 2023Sep 16, 2023
The Value of Mountain ViewsCleveland and Main, downtown Squamish: Where colourful mountain murals painted on the sides of 6 story condos block real mountain views…Oct 12, 2022Oct 12, 2022
On LandLand, land, land. For the last 500 years pl, the dominant mindset has been trained to see land as something to be bought and sold…Oct 5, 2022Oct 5, 2022
on gentrificationHidden, displaced, moved on, knocked down, painted over, dispossessed, outlawed, yet, still here.… Some of us anyway…. Not all of us have…Oct 3, 2022Oct 3, 2022
Thoughts of food securityAs I harvest the food that remains in my downtown community garden, my thoughts fall to the massive flooding and mudslides that recently…Dec 25, 2021Dec 25, 2021
Rent is Theft“Rent is theft.” Agree or don’t agree? I guess it depends on your position: landlord or mortgage owner or renter. Either way, banks…Nov 13, 2021Nov 13, 2021
Gentrification“Gentrification is a process of neighbourhood change in a historically disinvested neighbourhood by means of real estate investment and new…Oct 14, 2021Oct 14, 2021
private property“The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe…Oct 8, 2021Oct 8, 2021
Chii’wasCh’íiw̓es [Ch’ • í • iw̓es], means “raising paddle” and translates to ‘rock point on the northwest side of Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Harbour’ in…Oct 7, 2021Oct 7, 2021
