During the final debate of the 2021 BC Liberal leadership race, candidate Ellis Ross was asked how he, a politician from northern BC, could win support in the densely urbanized ridings of B.C.’s Lower Mainland. In response, Ross declared the rural-urban divide a political fiction, and said coming from outside Vancouver was no handicap for […]
Part way up Old Baldy Mountain trail on southern Vancouver Island, Sonia Furstenau paused on a rocky outcrop. The view was stunning. Verdant hills undulated to the skyline, and gleaming cool and blue in the valley below was Shawnigan Lake. B.C.’s Green Party leader considered the scene, contemplating the beauty perhaps, or more likely, looking […]
“There are these characteristics of human beings that are clearly causing enormous trouble — our tendency to discount the future, our tendency to retreat into identity groups, our optimistic bias… our natural biological tendency as top predators. We’ve never had to restrain our appetites before. And now we kind of have to.” ––Thomas Homer-Dixon
