Optimism: Numbers show potential big growth in Port Alberni population.

I’m a geek, as you already know from posts like this, and I also like numbers and spreadsheets, as you know from posts like this. 🙂

So of course I perked up when I saw this tweet from the CivicInfo feed at @BCHeadlines.

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Yup, First Nations should have a veto.

There has to be a ‘Get to No’.

Addendum: A day later I read this piece in Maclean’s. I highly recommended reading it…. before or after you read my opinion, of course. 🙂

As the protests and blockades in support of the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs opposed to the TC Energy Coastal Gas Link pipeline have escalated across the country I’ve watched as people become more entrenched in their positions, myself included.

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On Wet’suwet’en: The Deafening Silence of Cowardice.

I seem to write about this kind of thing a lot. I have always been disappointed by the cowardice of politicians and there is unfortunately no lack of examples today in Canada or around the world.

The Wet’suwet’en and Coastal Gas Link pipeline issue rolls on as the RCMP remove indigenous people from their territory, and dozens of protests happen in solidarity all over the country blocking railways, roads, highways and ports.

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