This past week, the Grumpy Taxpayer$ published a blog post and sent out a newsletter with inaccurate information about the…
Read More Reconciliation Grant: The Real Numbers and the Rationale
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This past week, the Grumpy Taxpayer$ published a blog post and sent out a newsletter with inaccurate information about the…
Read More Reconciliation Grant: The Real Numbers and the Rationale
This post will be as much photo essay as written word. I want to show that Missing Middle Housing already…
The apple and the aspen, two very different trees happily co-exist side by side in our backyard. At the beginning…
Read More New Year’s Message: Co-Existence Key to Healthy Democracy, Community in 2022
Samples of Missing Middle Housing proposed for Victoria. These are low-rise, multi-family dwellings that fit into existing neighbourhoods and are…
The majority of the light yellow areas – which comprise a large portion of the city's limited land base –…
Read More Part 1. The Racist and Exclusionary History of Single Family Zoning
Our backyard adjacent to our neighbours. At just about every land use public hearing I've sat through for the last…
This piece was originally published in the Times Colonist here. I’ve been at the Council table for 10 years; this…
Read More Victoria’s 2022 Budget Sets the Table for the Future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPuj3J49dzQ A few weeks ago, the City of Victoria, the Victoria Foundation and the Canadian Urban Institute came together to…
Read More The World Is Coming Apart at the Seams and Why We Should Embrace It
To learn more about the process of developing the Welcoming City Strategy and to meet some members of the Welcoming…
Read More Welcoming Victoria: An Inclusive, Anti-Racist City
I wrote this poem while picking strawberries, a few days before the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation –…
Read More Late September Strawberries, and the Work of Reconciliation