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Adapting, Innovating, and other Dynamic Revisioning Sites

4 Hopeful Lessons from WW2 to Confront Climate Change – YouTube (6 minutes 22 seconds, narrated by Seth Klein)

100% green power by 2035 – high hopes for Germany's next renewables reform | Clean Energy Wire ("Clean Energy Wire CLEW produces and facilitates top-quality journalism about the energy transition in Germany and beyond, and fosters cross-border cooperation among reporters covering the move towards a climate-friendly society." March 1, 2022)

2021 Animal Advocacy Year in Review (The British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals)

2021 A Year in Numbers (HABITAT ACQUISITION TRUST)

2021 Year in Review – The Fur-Bearers

2022 New Year's Resolutions (100 things you can do to help in the climate crisis)

A 10-Point Plan to Cut Oil Use — Analysis – IEA (International Energy Agency)

Addressing Climate Damages: A Call to Action from the IPCC Report | World Resources Institute (March 8, 2022 webinar, "Any further delay is untenable.")

Adapting customer experience in the time of coronavirus (McKinsey & Company)

Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival (see Master Apprenticeship Program MAP)

An Open Letter from Academics Regarding the Invasion of Wet'suwet'en Territory (CUI, Canadian Urban Institute)

Anti-Trans Hate in Canada: Green Party Raises Concerns (CPAC.ca | Headline Politics, 17 minutes, 8 seconds, May 17, 2022)

Appeal to Womanhood Throughout the World: A Mothers' Day Proclamation (Julia Ward Howe, Boston, 1870, read on Youtube, News conference, 2 minutes 48 seconds)

BC Coastal Marine Strategy – Blueprint for the Coast (CUI)

BC First Nations Climate Strategy and Action Plan (Final Draft, April 22, 2022)

B.C. Securing Watersheds for a Stronger Future (by Jonathan O'Riordan, January 25, 2022)

British Columbia Urban, Rural, and Northern Indigenous Housing Strategy, January 2022 (Aboriginal Housing Management Association)

CAJ calls for immediate release of arrested journalists reporting from Wet'suwet'en (Posted on November 20, 2021) (The Canadian Association of Journalists)

Canada Greener Homes Grant

Canada's communications future: Time to act – Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review (Letter to the Honourable Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry and the Honourable Minister of Canadian Heritage, Final report, January 29, 2020)

Canada's Supreme Court recognizes Wet’suwet’en law. So how is Coastal GasLink moving ahead? (Canada's National Observer, December 2, 2021)

Canada's Voting Age Should Be Lowered | The Tyee ("Here are four good reasons why")

Canadian Freshwater Alliance

Canadian Urban Institute (CUI)

Celebrate Winter Solstice ~ a gift through Sierra Club BC ("Rich oral tradition shared by kQwa’st’not (charlene george), cultural voice for SCBC" and much more)

Celebrating Victories in 2021 – RAVEN Trust

Cherokee Nation and Global Indigenous Languages Caucus Host International Decade of Indigenous Languages Launch Event | Cultural Survival (includes links to the recorded three days of this conference)

Christiana Figueres: The case for stubborn optimism on climate – Climage Champions (October 23, 2020, This talk was presented at an official TED conference, 7 minutes 57 seconds)

CityHive

Climate and the ocean: How to combat ocean acidification (West Coast Environmental Law)

Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (IPPC Sixth Assessment Report released February 28, 2022)

Climate Change Adaptation: A Priorities Plan for Canada ("This seminal report, in partnership with the University of Waterloo, was prepared in 2000 as a contribution to understanding what a national adaptation plan for Canada might look like")

Climate Change Adaptation Program - YouTube

Climate Emergency Unit

COP26 CodeBlue BC (see short 1 minute 23 second video)

COP26 Coalition (Conferences of Parties)

COP27 (November 6 to 18, 2022, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt)

Creatively United: Sharing Solutions for a Healthier Community

CUIx Victoria – Canadian Urban Institute

Don't Choose Extinction (YouTube, 2 minutes 26 seconds)

Drawdown BC | Climate Change | Sustainable World Pachamama Alliance

Elizabeth May responds to President Zelensky's address to the Canadian Parliament | Elizabeth May (video 5 minutes 42 seconds, March 15, 2022, House of Commons give her a standing ovation)

Elizabeth May: The elements of the big stall, carefully disguised as climate action (November 3, 2021, Georgia Straight)

Elizabeth May: We face multiple existential threats, and we must confront them all together (March 3, 2022, YouTube, 1 minute 10 seconds)

Elizabeth May: We must work together to create a national strategy to address environmental racism (March 2, 2022, YouTube, 1 minute 19 seconds)

Engagement on Canada's 2030 Emission Reduction Plan – Public Submission Portal (Deadline: Note, it was "by January 14, 2022" meaning the deadline was actually 11:59 p.m. PST on the 13th. It has now been extended to January 21, 2022. See toolkit link below)

EN-Urban-Youth-Impact-Report.pdf

Find Ethical & Sustainable Banks in Your Area – Bank.green (Is your money being used to fund climate chaos?)

Food Eco District | Victoria

Free Grassy (Support Grassy Narrows First Nation)

Garden Sharing – Toronto Urban Growers (Garden sharing tools and network project details included)

Get involved in Your Neighbourhood | Victoria

Getting off gas: A how-to guide to get fossil fuels out of your home | Canada's National Observer (By Seth Klein | Opinion)

Gidimt'en Checkpoint (@yintah_access) Instagram photos and videos

Green Interim Leader on Latest UN Climate Change Report - March 1, 2022 (Amita Kuttner, the interim leader of the Green Party, holds a news conference on Parliament Hill to address the latest report from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). They are joined by Green Party MPs Elizabeth May and Mike Morrice. CPAC – For the Record, 50 minutes)

GreenPAC endorsees fill key environmental roles in 44th Parliament (Canada's federal election results in 2021)

Green Party statement on the Emergencies Act (February 22, 2022)

Greta Thunberg Talks Animals, the Environment, and More (Mercy for Animals, #ForNature, 5 minutes 18 seconds)

have you been to Fairy Creek? (YouTube, 3 minutes 48 seconds)

Have your say! Toolkit for the Environment Minister's Public Consultation [about Canada's 2030 Emission Reduction Plan] (Deadline: January 21, 2022; See above link)

HOME | Cities at COP26

How Big Oil Rigs the System to Keep Winning

ICLR – The Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR) ("ICLR is a world-class centre for multidisciplinary disaster preventation research and communication. ICLR is an independent, not-for-profit research institute founded by the insurance industry and affiliated with Western University. Institute staff and research associates are international leaders in wind and seismic engineering, atmospheric science, risk perception, hydrology, economics, geography, health sciences, public policy and a number of other disciplines")

Indigenous Clean Energy Network – Clean Energy as a Restorative Force

Indigenous Climate Action

Indigenous Languages Decade

Infiltration Manual — YOUTH CLIMATE LAB

IPCC adaptation report ‘a damning indictment of failed global leadership on climate’ (UN News, February 28, 2022)

In Search of a Perfect World ("In Search of a Perfect World is a documentary marking the 70th anniversary of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at a moment when the very idea seems in peril", 44 minutes, with Peter Mansbridge, 2018)

Island Food Hubs

John Horgan's NDP government rolls the dice by refusing public meeting with hunger strikers about forest policies (The Georgia Straight, by Charlie Smith, April 15, 2022)

Legal definition of ecocide — Stop Ecocide International

Local Government – West Coast Climate Action Network (Local Election Resources, Register as a Climate Champion)

March 25 – Fridays For Future (FFF Global Climate Strike, 3/25/22)

MILITARIZATION OF WET’SUWET’EN LANDS AND CANADA’S ONGOING VIOLATIONS (Submission to the Expert mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, United Nations Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner, on February 7, 2022)

Moving Beyond Pledges | Cities at COP26

NDP Grassroots Wet'suewt'en Statement ("As New Democrats, we are angered by the BC NDP government’s actions in Wet’suwet’en territory and distressed by the Federal NDP's response....")

No Mow May ("a very easy thing you can do in your garden to help wild flowers and struggling pollinators too. Join legions of gardeners [like those in the UK] who are saying 'no' to the mow this May to help our bees, butterflies, wildlife and us!")

Nuchatlaht Land Back! Webinar recording [March 3, 2022, 1 hour 16 minutes] (The Nuchatlaht Nation are fighting in the supreme court to get their land back through a groundbreaking title case starting on March 21!)

Oaklands Rise Woonerf (A COMMUNITY LED, PEOPLE-PRIORITY PLACEMAKING PILOT IN VICTORIA, BC, CANADA)

Oaklands Rise Woonerf – A People Priority Place of Community (YouTube, November 4, 2021, 6 minutes, 10 seconds)

Official Response from the Green Party of Canada to The Hon. Steven Guilbeault re: Net-Zero Emissions by 2050, dated January 20, 2022 (see Net-Zero Emissions by 2050)

One Planet Saanich Stakeholders

OnePlanet – Sustainability as a Solution

Open Letter: Investment in the TMX Poses Significant Financial Risks for First Nations – UBCIC (Union of BC Indian Chiefs, March 15, 2022)

Opinion: The American polity is cracked, and might collapse. Canada must prepare – The Globe and Mail (by Homer Dixon, Special to the Globe and Mail, Published December 31, 2021, updated January 2, 2022)

Organizing: People, Power, Change – The Commons

Our Demands – COP 26 Coalition

Pacific Wild Journal 2021: Dispatches from a Northern Rainforest

Plant Milks Help Our Planet (A Fridays for Future primer about switching to vegan milks made from seeds, nuts, and plants. "Switching to plant milks helps preserve our environment and stops cruelty to cows"

Pope Francis apologizes for residential schools at Vatican: ‘I ask for God’s forgiveness’ (April 1, 2022, video 7 minutes 18 seconds, with Global News article by Elizabeth McSheffrey)

Pope Francis apologizes to Indigenous delegates for 'deplorable' abuses at residential schools | CBC News (April 1, 2022, video 13 minutes 41 seconds, plus other videos with CBC News article by Olivia Stefanovich)

Prairie Climate Centre (The Climate Atlas of Canada)

Red Women Rising – Downtown Eastside Women's Centre

Resilience BC Anti-Racism Network (3 short YouTube videos)

Respect Indigenous rights on Wet'suwet'en territory | Amnesty International Canada (petition)

Sacred Earth Solar

Salmon Nation

Seed the City Youth Program | LifeCycles Project – Victoria, BC

Settlers get 35% bump in property values. Indigeous Peoples? Not so much.

Switch Off Putin

Some Northern residents vow to oppose federal regulations to release treated oilsands tailing water (CBC North News, December 15, 2021)

Speech: Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbado at the Opening of the #COP26 World Leaders Summit (YouTube, 8 minutes 20 seconds, November 1, 2021)

Statement by the Prime Minister on the 40th anniversary of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (April 17, 2022)

States Fail to Adequately Address Climate Change: An Indigenous Peoples' Analysis of COP 26 Decisions | Cultural Survival

Stop Site C Dam – RAVEN Trust

Storylines for 2022: Where Does Climate Journalism Hit the Wall? (via The Energy Mix, webinar recorded on March 24, 2022, 1 hour 2 minutes)

Tactical Urbanism: An Adaptive Tool for Safe Distancing (The City Fix)

The Book – A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency by Seth Kein

The Case for the Core: Provocations for the Future of Canada's Downtowns (Canadian Urban Institute)

The Energy Mix (includes options to subscribe to the latest climate news and analysis direct to your inbox or to view latest digests online)

The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty

The Future is Disabled: Planning for Climate Change Must Include People with Disabilities (350.org, December 3, 2020, by Marlena Chertock)

The language of climate change and environmental sustainability: The OED October 2021 update | Oxford English Dictionary

The last of the untamed: Wedzin Kwa and the Wet'suwet'en fight to save her | Ricochet ("please help us")

The Starfish Canada (The Starfish Canada celebrates young environmental leaders by connecting them with a platform for storytelling and a community of change-makers)

The Summit on the City: Recovering Canada's Downtowns (find out about this January 25 to 26, 2022 event)

Thirty days milestone shows B.C.'s old growth intentions require immediate funding (Press Release, December 1, 2021)

This is how we defeat Putin and other petrostate autocrats | Bill McKibben | The Guardian (February 25, 2022)

Threading Change

Truth and Reconciliation: My Action Plan

This Day in Quotes: "We have met the enemy and he is us"

Tzeporah Berman | Speaker | TED (The global treaty to phase out fossil fuels, 13:34 minutes, October 2021)

UNFCCC (United Nations Climate Change site)

Urbanarium | For Smart Cities

Victoria BC is 50th city in world to back the Fossil Fuel Treaty (Press release, May 12, 2022)

Victoria Nurtures | Vital Conversations for Our Shared Future (A Canadian Urban Institute Collaboration, April 2022)

Virtual Public Meeting: Vancouver Island – BC Electoral Boundaries Commission (Zoom event date: Tuesday March 29, 2022 5:00pm PST, "This virtual public meeting is intended for residents of the Vancouver Island region to provide input on the electoral districts in their communities, but input from any British Columbian on any electoral district will be accepted.")

Want to Pitch a Piece to The Tyee?

We must addresss environmental racism in Canada: Support Bill C-266 | West Coast Environmental Law (April 19, 2022. If you agree, send a message to your MP, as well as Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, urging them to pass Bill C-226)

West Coast Climate Action Network

West Coast's 2021 Year in Review | West Coast Environmental Law

Why ajuinata is the Inuktitut word we could all use right now | CBC News (April 16, 2022, by Alistair Steele)

Why B.C. needs to move Beyond Gas (May 2, 2022 .pdf handout from Dogwood)

Why we need a law to keep oil and gas emissions from wrecking Canadian climate targets | West Coast Environmental Law (March 23, 2022. If you agree, use the website tool to send an email to your MP and the Ministers of Natural Resources and Environment and Climate Change.)

Wind Power on the Prairies (YouTube, 2 minutes 45 seconds)

World Kindness Day. What is it exactly? How is it observed? (An international holiday observed annually on November 13th)

World Resources Institute | Making Big Ideas Happen

Youthful Cities

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Canadian and International Arts and Culture Support Sites

Access Copyright

Arts BC (was Assembly of British Columbia Arts Councils)

Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity

BC Alliance for Arts + Culture

BC BookWorld

Bill Good Award (Award criteria for journalism)

British Columbia Arts Council

Canadian Arts Coalition / Canadienne des Arts

Canadian Authors Association

Canada Council for the Arts

Canada Council for the Arts: Strategic Plan 2016-21

Canadian Intellectual Property Office

Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE)

Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE): Censorship

Crimson Coast Dance

Federation of BC Writers

Freedom to Read

FRIENDS of Canadian Broadcasting

ICORN International Cities of Refuge Network

Island Writers' Society

Juan de Fuca Performing Arts Centre Society

National Film Board of Canada

Open Media

PEN Canada

PEN International—The PEN International Women's Manifesto

Public Lending Right Program

Puente Theatre

Reporting in Indigenous Communities | Decolonize Your Journalism

Sources

Speaking Truth to Power (CJFE, YouTube, 1 hour, February 23, 2021)

The Arts and Canada's Cultural Policy (93-3e)

The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP)

The Dalton Camp Award | Friends of Canadian Broadcasting

The Writers' Trust of Canada

The Writers' Union of Canada

Toronto International Festival of Authors (October 21–31, 2021)

Victoria Children's Literature Roundtable

Westshore Arts Council

Wordfest

Wordfest – Wikipedia

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Canadian Literary Journals and Publishers

Association of Canadian Publishers (ACP)

CBC Books: A Guide to Canadian literary magazines and journals open to submissions

Orca Book Publishers

Epoch

Prairie Fire

The Antigonish Review

The Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia (ABPBC)

The Fiddlehead

The Literary Review of Canada

The Malahat Review

The New Quarterly

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Christian Science Nursing Training and Career Information Sites

Albert Baker Fund (ABF) Career Alliance

Arden Wood

Association of Organizations for Christian Science Nursing (AOCSN)

BC Committee on Publication | Christian Science in BC

Chestnut Hill Benevolent Association

Christian Science Committee on Publication

Christian Science in British Columbia

Christian Science nursing

Christian Science Nursing in Canada

Christian Science Nursing Network (CSNN)

Christian Science Practitioners

Le Verger: Christian Science Nursing Facility, Rolle (Switzerland)

Le Verger: AOCSN (Association of Organizations for Christian Science Nursing

Lynn House (Alexandria, Virginia)

Sharon House (Toronto, Ontario)

Sunrise Haven (Kent, Washington)

Vancouver Christian Science Nursing Service

Wayside House (Victoria, British Columbia)

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Emergencies, Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Volunteer Community Emergency Team Sites

Air Quality Health Index – Province of British Columbia

Alertable – Emergency Alerts

Alert Ready Emergency Alert System

Amazonia for Life: 80x2025 Initiative (YouTube)

Austrian World Summit 2021 – Greta Thunberg Speech (On July, 2, 2021, Greta Thunberg speaks to the point at the Austrian Climate Summit) (YouTube, 7 minutes, 17 seconds)

CAPE (Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment)

Climate Action Tracker

Climate stability becomes a relic of the past in B.C. due to loss of hydrologic stationarity (December 1, 2021, an article from The Georgia Straight what Canadian water-policy expert, Robert Sandford says)

CODE RED Joint Coverage Week Oct 31 – Nov 6 (Covering Climate Now, United Nations COP26 global climate conference, 2021)

Emergency Management BC (EMBC)

Emergency Preparedness, Response & Recovery

Emergency Preparedness Week (Always the first full week of May)

Fairy Creek: The Last Stand (YouTube, 1 hour 40 minutes)

Fire and Emergency Programs | CRD

FireSmart Manual | Protect your home from wildfire

Fracking BC: Reports from the People Webinar Series | Whatshed Sentinel (4 webinars recorded on YouTube between November 25, 2020 to October 25, 2021)

Gidimt'en Yintah Access (WET'SUWET'EN BLOCKADES ERECTED TO STOP COASTAL GASLINK DRILLING UNDER SACRED HEADWATERS) (plus link to September 27, 2021 press release)

Government of British Columbia Emergency Social Services (ESS)

Government of Canada: Get Prepared, The 72 Hours...Is Your Family Prepared? campaign

Greta Thunberg delivers speech at Montreal climate change rally (September 27, 2019) (YouTube, 16 minutes, 8 seconds)

Greta Thunberg leads 500,000 people at Montreal climate rally ("In the Fridays for Future weekly protest, the Canadian city of Montreal led the way, with half a million children and adults taking part. Millions more across the globe joined in." September 27, 2019)

Greta Thunberg's Full Keynote Speech at Youth4Climate Pre-COP26 | Doha Debates (On September 28, 2021, Greta Thunberg took the stage in Milan at Pre-COP26, the Youth4Climate conference, and speaks about all the "blah, blah, blah...") (YouTube, 7 minutes, 35 seconds)

Hazards and Emergencies

Langford Emergency Social Services (ESS)

Letter to Prime Minister Trudeau, urging him to reject the Trans Mountain Kinder Morgan Expansion Project, November 18, 2016, by Andrew Weaver, OBC, FRSC, FAGU, FAMS, FAAAS, FCMOS; MLA Oak Bay-Gordon Head; Leader, BC Green Party

Nathan E. Stewart Oil Spill – Heiltsuk Nation (YouTube, 3 minutes)

On Fossil Fuel Subsidies, the Facts Matter (The Tyee, December 3, 2021)

Past Last Call: G20 public finance institutions are still bankrolling fossil Fuels – Oil Change International (October 28, 2021 report)

Pipeline Map: Pipeline safety incidents (interactive map)

Preparedness Now TV Documentary: Simulation on what can happen if a 9.0 earthquake hit BC and tips to survive from survivors

Prepare Yourself | CRD (includes links to municipalities and electoral areas in the Victoria Capital Regional District)

Preparing for Climate Change: An Implementation Guide for Local Governments in British Columbia

Public Alert Notification System |CRD (PANS)

RCMP Responds to XRTV / Elders Arrested / Dr. Peter Carter on UN Report (S1E100) (YouTube, 37 minutes)

Rebellion | The Nature of Things (2020) CBC Gem, 44 minutes 8 seconds)

RSOE EDIS–Emergency and Disaster Information Service

Six safety and survival tips from Mi'kmaw survival expert Sakej Ward (APTN, November 27, 2021)

Stop government funding climate polluters – BC Green Party ("BC needs to stop funding a dying industry. It’s time to invest in British Columbians")

The Great British Columbia ShakeOut (Always the third Thursday in October, worldwide) (Note: On 10/18/19 it was at 10:18 a.m., on 10/15/20 at 10:15 a.m., on 10/21/21 at 10:21 a.m., and so on)

The IPCC Report and Our Code Red Summer (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)

UNIST'OT'EN | Unist'ot'en Do Not Consent To Man Camps Increasing Violence Against Our Women

Uranium and nuclear energy in New Brunswick and beyond ("This post includes files related to the zoom panel event held on Dec. 10, 2021 with speakers Gordon Edwards, Lorraine Rekmans, Tracy Glynn")

Vic-Alert Emergency Notification Service

We Backed BC's Climate Plan. Now We See It's Not Enough

Who Says It's a Climate Emergency?—Covering Climate Now

Wildfire Fact Sheet | Portable Air Cleaners for Wildfire Smoke (BC Centre for Disease Control)

Wildfire Service – Province of British Columbia

Wildfire Smoke (BC Centre for Disease Control)

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Environment, Food, Naturescaping, and Wildlife Support Sites

#InDeepTrouble: An Overview of Bottom Trawling in Canada

2021 Forward, For Everyone. | Liberal Party of Canada (Liberal Party of Canada Platform 2021

2015 Green Party Platform Reflects Leap Manifesto Policy

2019 Green Party of Canada Election Platform

2021 Green Party of Canada Election Platform 2021

All About Birds, The Cornell Lab of Ornithology

An Audit of Carbon Neutral Government | Auditor General of British Columbia (March 2013)

Ancient Forest Alliance

Avaaz.ca Canada in Action

BC SPCA (British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals)

BC SPCA Pet Search

BC Sustainable Energy Association | Building a Sustainable Energy Future of British Columbians

Behind the scenes of a Canadian sow farm

Being a voice for the forest: A forest action guide – Sierra Club BC

BlackOutSpeakOut

British Columbia Government Water Planning & Strategies

Butterflies and Moths of North America

Canada's action on climate change

Canada's Lost Species (Canadian Wildlife Federation)

Canadian Wildlife Federation

CPAWS | Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society

Climate Atlas of Canada (also see Indigenous Climate Atlas Demo, 5 minutes 35 seconds)

CRFAIR (Capital Region Food and Agriculture Initiatives Roundtable)

David Suzuki Foundation

Dene K’éh Kusan

Defend Our Coast

Dogwood

Earth Hour

Ecojustice

Eco Learning Hive

E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Plants of British Columbia

Environmental Defence Canada

Environmental Law Centre Clinic, University of Victoria

Environmental Laws Matter

European Greens

Fairtrade Canada

Fish Feel Pain | PETA

Food Day Canada: Putting Canada on the Menu!

Food labeling 101: GMO, organic, and other common grocery labels decoded

Fractured Land

Friends of Clayoquot Sound

Garry Oak Ecosystems Recovery Team (GOERT)

Georgia Strait Alliance

Global Fossil Fuel Divestment Commitment Database

Global Greens

Global Network – Global Greens

Global Witness

Green Langford

GreenPAC | Canada's Non-Profit for the Environment

Green Party of British Columbia

Green Party of Canada

Greenpeace Canada

Green Values | Green Party of Canada

Habitat Acquisition Trust (HAT)

Health Canada's Radiation Monitoring Data and the Nuclear Emergency in Japan

Hinterland Who's Who

HomeGrow.ca

Idle No More

International Congress on Vegetarian Nutrition

Is Your Favorite Lake or River Protected?

Land Protection

Last Stand for Forests – Dedicated to Non-violent Direct Action to Protect the Last Ancient Temperate Rainforests (The Rainforest Flying Squad)

LifeCycles Project Society

LIFEFORCE

Metchosin Biodiversity Project / Metchosin Bioblitz

Mining Watch Canada

Nanaimo Woman Mauled by Wolfdogs Speaks Out for the First Time (The Tyee, October 13, 2021)

Native Plant Society of British Columbia

Native Plant Study Group (NPSG)

Nature Canada

NatureWatch

One Less Meadow (full video)

One Ocean

Orca Network

Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions

Pacific Wild

Pembina Institute

POLIS Project on Ecological Governance (University of Victoria, Centre for Global Studies)

Pull Together

Raincoast Conservation Foundation

Race Rocks Ecological Reserve

RAVEN Trust (Respecting Aboriginal Values and Environmental Needs)

Recycle BC

Recycle Small Appliances and Power Tools in BC – ElectroRecyle

Repair Cafe

Return-It.ca | Encorp Pacific (Canada)

Rocky Point Bird Observatory (RPBO)

Saanich Climate Plan

Save the Fraser

Sierra Club BC

Sierra Club BC's EcoMap

Sierra Club of Canada Foundation

Solutions For A Warming World (CBC Ideas radio program, 9/22/16)

STAND.earth

Stop Ecocide International — Canada (Stop Ecocide International)

Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary

Take it Taller: Save the Great Bear Rain Forest

The Climate Challenge: 101 Solutions to Global Warming

The Ethics of Plant Rescue (by Moralea Milne, 2004)

The Good Food Network | Sustainable Food Systems | Capital Region

The Green Diary, aka Guy Dauncy's The Practical Utopian (ended October 1, 2018)

The Land Conservancy

The Leap Manifesto

The Narwhal

There's No Tomorrow (limits to growth & the future) Animation

Under siege, B.C.'s forests have started emitting CO2. Lots of it. | Canada's National Observer: News & Analysis

Vancouver Island Birds

Vancouver Island – Climate & Agriculture Initiative BC

Vancouver Island Water Watch Coalition

Victoria Animal Control Services (Pound & Adoption Centre)

Victoria Humane Society

Victoria Natural History Society

Welcome to High Seas Alliance

West Coast Environmental Law Association

Wild Arc (Wild Animal Rehabilitation Centre)

Wilderness Committee (WCWC)

World Wildlife Fund Canada

Young Greens of Canada

350.org

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Fact Checkers

Calls to Action Accountability: A 2020 Status Update on Reconciliation – Yellowhead Institute ("December 15, 2020, marks a full five years since the release of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada." The analysis reveals that just 8 of 94 Calls to Action have been implemented, this is down from 9 in 2019. "Ultimately, we find that Canada is failing residential school Survivors and their families")

FactCheck.org (A Project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center)

Hoax-Slayer (Latest Email and Social Media Hoaxes, Current Internet Scams)

Opinion vs. Analysis – Editor's Blog (CBC News)

PolitiFact (Pulitzer Prize winner)

Snopes

TruthOrFiction.com

Urban Legends

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Foster Parent and Related Support Service Associations

Aboriginal Coalition to End Homelessness Society

Aboriginal Legal Aid in BC

Accessible Learning | University of Victoria

ACT – Autism Community Training (Autism videos)

African Cultural Centre | Issamba Centre | Victoria

Aged Out | Empowering youth

BC211 (Information and Referral in BC)

BCANDS – British Columbia Aboriginal Network on Disability Society

BC Civil Resolution Tribunal

BC Seniors' Guide (BC Government)

Beacon Community Services

BLACK LIVES MATTER VANCOUVER

Boys & Girls Club of Victoria

British Columbia Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres

British Columbia Federation of Foster Parent Associations (BCFFP)

British Columbia Foster Care Education Program | Foster Parent Support Services Society

Broadcasting Accessibility Fund

Canadian Foster Family Association / Association des Familles d'Accueil du Canada (CFFA / AFAC)

CanAssist

CBC's The Current launches pilot project for deaf, hearing-impaired audiences

CFB The Canadian Federation of the Blind

Child protection matters | Legal Aid BC

Community Living BC (CLBC)

Community Living Victora: Community Living Links

Consent for kids (YouTube, 2 minutes 42 seconds)

Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD)

Determining the Boundaries of Common Property: Implications for Repairs, Maintanance and Alterations

Digital Jumpstart | Neil Squire Society ("a free online program that helps people with disabilities improve their digital literacy so they have the confidence to take their next steps – join a job placement or readiness program, return to school, join the workforce, or simply become more confident using a computer")

Doctors of BC | Find a Doctor

E.R.A.S.E. Bullying

Federation of Aboriginal Foster Parents (FAFP)

Federation of BC Youth in Care Networks

Find recalls, advisories and safety alerts

Find recalls, advisories and safety alerts—Subscribe

First Nations Child & Family Caring Society of Canada (the Caring Society)

Foster Care Payments in BC

Foster Parent Support Services Society (FPSSS)

Getting legal advice on stratas – Province of British Columbia

Generation Squeeze

HealthLink BC

ICANBESAFEONLINE.COM

Indigenous Disability Canada's (IDC)Support for Indigenous Student Learning Program

Inter-cultural Association of Greater Victoria   Help for Immigrants & Refugees | Settlement Services

International Foster Care Organization (IFCO)

Island Food Hubs

LifeStreams ("An online hub of resources, learning and creativity and connection for adults with diverse abilities")

Living Edge (Living Edge demonstrates compassion for the needs of food insecure families in Greater Victoria)

Ministry of Children & Family Development (MCFD)

Neil Squire Society (using technology, knowledge and passion to empower Canadians with disabilities)

Know Your Rights | Kamloops Pride 2020 (A Toolkit for 2SLGBTQIA+ Folks in Navigating Youth, Healthcare and Criminal Justice Issues)

OHCHR | Committee on the Rights of the Child (United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner)

Phoenix Human Services Association

Programs and Services for Seniors (Government of Canada)

Recreation Integration Victoria: Key Links

Society for Students with a Disability (SSD) | University of Victoria Students' Society (UVSS)

Songhees Wellnesss Centre

Support Network for Indigenous Women and Women of Color

Support Worker Central

Teen Art, Design & Media Programs | Emily Carr University of Art & Design

The Cridge Centre for the Family

The Pacific Training Centre for the Blind

The Politics of Blindness

Zajac Ranch for Children

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Global, Local, National, Provincial, and Territorial Education Sites

2008 Chinese milk scandal – Wikipedia (chemical melamine added to give appearance of higher protein content in infant formula and other products)

"(Indigenous) Language as a Human Right" by Kristen Carpenter and Alexey Tsykarev (Abstract: The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed 2022-2032 as the International Decade of Indigenous Languages)

'Everything is Burning and Your House is Gone' | The Tyee

2017 Confidence and Supply Agreement between the BC Green Caucus and the BC New Democrat Caucus [pdf]

ABC: A Brief Curated guide to LGBTQ2+ terminology to create safe and inclusive spaces

ABC Life Literacy Canada | A National Literacy Organization

Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN)

About CBC News (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)

About Center for Media Literacy (CML)

About — Covering Climate Now

About Elections BC

About FRIENDS | Standing up for Canadian Voices – I Am Canadian Content

About Ideas (CBC Radio program)

About | Oxford English Dictionary

About Robogate

About Rogers Canada

About Shaw Canada

About | The Canadian Encyclopedia

About Us | The Associated Press (AP)

About Us | The Japan Times Online

About us | The Guardian

About Victoria Times Colonist (See Times Colonist – Wikipedia, re: Owner(s): TC Publication Limited Partnership of Glacier Media)

Agreement Between the Government of Canada and the Government of the People's Republic of China for the Promotion and Reciprocal Protection of Investments

A History of Royal Commissions

Alden E. Habacon

A Municipal Comparison of Affordable Housing and Homelessness Delivery: Profiles across 11 Canadian city regions (Canadian Urban Institute, October 1, 2021)

Andrew Weaver, MLA, Green Party of BC (MLA: 2013-2020, archived page)

A New High Seas Treaty: How Youth Can Help Protect Half the Planet – Youth Webinar (YouTube, 1 hour)

Angus Reid Institute | Canadian Opinion Research

Apathy is Boring

BBC | About the BBC

Atkinson Lecture 2020 | Objectivity: Trust and Truth In An Age of Disinformation – School of Journalism – Ryerson University (YouTube, 1 hour 13 minutes)

BC Black History Awareness Society

BC Black History Timeline

BCCIC (The British Columbia Council for International Cooperation)

B.C. greenlit more Mounties on Wet’suwet’en territory before 3rd raid (APTN National News, December 2, 2021)

BC on the Move: A 10-Year Transportation Plan

Black Press Media

Black Press Media – Wikipedia

British Columbia Electoral Boundaries Commission

British Columbia Teachers' Federation

British Columbia Registry Services | British Columbia Ministry of Citizens' Services

Canada-China Investment Treaty

Canada in a Changing Climate: National Issues Report (This report provides a national perspective on how climate change is impacting our communities, environment and economy, and how we are adapting. Led by Natural Resources Canada, this report was released in June 2021)

Canada Revenue Agency Charities Listings | Government of Canada / Gouvernement du Canada

Canada.ca

Canada's 100 Debates on the Environment

Canada-Saudia Arabia Relations

Canada's communications future: Time to act – Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review (Final Report, January 2020)

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives / Centre Canadien de Politiques Alternatives (CCPA)

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms | TVO.org (Civics 101 Animations, 2 minute video)

Canadian Content – Wikipedia (abbreviated CanCon, cancon or can-con; French: contenu canadien)

Canadian Foreign Policy Institute (CFPI is a non-partisan organization)

Canadian Great War Project

Canadian Indian Residential School System (Wikipedia)

Canadian International Council

Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission

Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission | CRTC ("We are an administrative tribunal that operates at arm’s length from the federal government.")

CBC Journalistic Standards and Practices

CBC/Radio-Canada – Mandate

CBC/Radio-Canada – OUR CULTURE, OUR DEMOCRACY: CANADA IN THE DIGITAL WORLD (CBC/Radio-Canada submission to the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review Panel, January 2019)

CBC/Radio-Canada Who We Are, What We Do

Challenging Racist British Columbia

CHEK TV | About CHEK

Citizens for a Canadian Republic

Civics 101 Animations | TVO.org

Civil disobedience (Wikipedia)

College and University in Canada: What Is the Difference?

Colonialism (Wikipedia)

Common cold (Wikipedia)

Constructive dismissal (Wikipedia)

Corrections and clarifications | CBC News

Critical Race Theory (wikipedia)

Cuban Missile Crisis – Causes, Timeline & Significance – HISTORY

Declaration Act Action Plan | Released March 30, 2022 (The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Declaration Act) became law in B.C. on November 28, 2019)

Delgamuukw: A Lay Person's Guide to DELGAMUUKW (BC Treaty Commission)

Delgamuukw v. British Columbia (Supreme Court of Canada)

Delgamuukw v British Columbia (Wikipedia)

Democracy Watch

Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship Study Guide

Elections Canada

Elizabeth May, MP

Emily Carr University of Art & Design

Entering Ethical Space: Land-based reconciliation in the Kootenay-Columbia – Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative (site includes several YouTube workshop recordings, plus educational resources)

Equal Voice

Fair Vote Canada

First Nations Court (YouTube, 53 minutes)

First Peoples Law

Five Eyes (FVEY)

Focus on Geography Series, 2011 Census, Census subdivision of Langford, CY, British Columbia

Foreign Investments Are Driving Human Rights Abuses, Pollution, and Biodiversity Loss in Honduras | Cultural Survival (about Mimosa, a subsiduary of Canadian-owned Aura Minerals mining operations, posted April 30, 2022)

Free music education offered to all Canadians as Calgary Philharmonic teams up with online platform Meludia (to celebrate Canada's 150th birthday, starting December 6, 2017)

Fridays for Future

Gathering Our Voices: Indigenous Youth Leadership Training

Glacier Media | Glacier Media

Glacier Media – Wikipedia

Government Announces Next Steps on Trans Mountain Expansion Project – Canada.ca (News Release, "Reaffirms commitment to complete the pipeline project," February 22, 2022)

Government of Canada / Gouvernement du Canada

Government of Nunavut

Government of Nunavut Department of Education

Hansard Services / Legislative Assembly of British Columbia

Hansard / The Debates of the House of Commons

Ha-Silth-Sa Newspaper (Canada's Oldest First Nation's Newspaper)

Hippopotamus in Cree: Solomon Ratt (y-dialect) (Cree Literacy Network)

History of the Acadians – Wikipedia

House of Commons Procedure and Practice, Second Edition, 2009

How the Iroquois Great Law of Peace Shaped U.S. Democracy | Native America (PBS)

Hul'qumi'num Treaty Group | BC Treaty Commission

Immigration and citizenship (Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada)

Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada

Indian Act (R.S.C., c. 1-5)

Indigenous Corporate Training, Inc.: 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act

Indigenous Corporate Training, Inc.: 23 Tips On What Not to Say or Do [free e-book]

Indigenous Corporate Training, Inc.: 27 Tips on What to Say and Do to get Working Effectively with Indigenous Peoples© [free e-book]

Indigenous Corporate Training, Inc.: Indigenous Peoples: A Guide to Terminology

Indigenous Corporate Training, Inc.: Your Guide to Indigenous Relations

Indigenous Languages Decade (UNESCO, 2022 to 2023)

Indigenous Veterans – Veteran Affairs Canada

IndigiNews | Indigenous News

IndigiNews sets storytelling intentions for 2022

Information Commissioner of Canada: 2020-2021 Annual Report

In Plain Sight: Addressing Indigenous-specific Racism and Discrimination in B.C. Health Care (Addressing Racism Review Summary Report, November 2020)

International Monetary Fund

Inuit Circumpolar Council – United Voice of the Arctic Founded in 1977 by the late Eben Hopson of Barrow, Alaska, the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) has flourished and grown into a major international non-government organization representing approximately 180,000 Inuit of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Chukotka (Russia)

IPCC | AR6 Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis

IPCC | Climate change widespread, rapid, and intensifying – IPCC

IPCC | The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (“The IPCC is the UN body for assessing the science related to climate change”)

Is the "Common Cold" Our Greatest Ally in the Battle Against SARS-Co2?

John Horgan | The Canadian Encyclopedia

Journalists are not the enemy (by the Boston Globe Editorial Board, August 16, 2018, plus more than 400 news outlets)

Kaska Language Website (The University of British Columbia)

Language Planning (Endangered Languages / Language Planning / Theory Defense of the Mother Tongue)

lek'wungen Traditional Territory — Songhees Nation

MediaSmarts: Canada's Centre for Digital and Media Literacy

MILITARIZATION OF WET’SUWET’EN LANDS AND CANADA’S ONGOING VIOLATIONS (Submission to the Expert mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, United Nations Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner, on February 7, 2022)

Ministry of Education | Province of British Columbia

Munk School of Global Affairs

National Energy Board

National Household Survey (NHS) for Langford, CY, British Columbia, 2011

National Newswatch

National Newswatch | News Sources

National Strategy on Countering Radicalization to Violence (Government of Canada)

Native-Land.ca | Our home on native land

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

NATO – Wikipedia (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

Noblesse oblige (from wikipedia.org)

North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD)

North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) (from wikipedia.org)

Noteworthy historical figures – Canada.ca ("Read the biographies of some notable Black Canadians who have helped shape Canadian heritage and identity, and who have made and continue to make enormous contributions to the wellbeing, and prosperity of our country.")

Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for B.C.

Oka Crisis – Wikipedia (also known as the Kanesatake Resistance)

Ombudsman – CBC/Radio-Canada

Our Common Agenda | United Nations ("The Secretary-General presented [t]his report to the General Assembly in September 2021 before the end of the 75th session of the General Assembly")

Parliament of Canada

PBS Editorial Standards and Policies

People's Climate Plan

Philpot Education, 2.1 Analysing visual texts; 2.1.4 Understanding comics

Policy Magazine (Canadian Politics and Public Policy)

Policy Magazine (articles authored by Elizabeth May)

Policynote: About this blog

Policynote: Electoral Reform in BC

Posing As Canadian: How Big Foreign Oil captures Canadian energy and climate policy | The Council of Canadians (Report by Gordon Laxer was co-published by Council of Canadians, CCPA BC, and CCPA Saskatchewan on December 2021)

Postmedia Network Inc.

Privy Council Office (PCO): Government of Canada / Gouvernement du Canada

ProQuest | British Columbia Historical Newspapers (The archived contents of the Vancouver Sun, The Province and the Times Colonist are now free to browse and search online, from each paper’s inception to 2010)

Quebec Referendum (1995) | The Canadian Encylopedia

Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture (RFCDC) (The Council of Europe)

Royal BC Museum: A Focus for Change

Royal BC Museum: Indigenous Collections and Repatriation department

Royal BC Museum: Learning Portal

SECWEPEMC FREE PRIOR AND INFORMED CONSENT PROTOCOL

Shell corporation – Wikipedia (aka shell companies)

Slow Factory (Slow Factory's mission is to restore balance for humans and nature through design, education and narrative change)

SNC-Lavalin — Wikipedia

Songhees Nation

Statistics Canada: Canada's national statistical agency

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

Stranded asset – Wikipedia

Study Guide–Discover Canada–The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

Support Tools (Trans Care BC)

SYILX LANGUAGE HOUSE

Syilx-Okanagan-Language-Declaration

Te'mexw Treaty Association | Proudly serving our Nations (formed of five Coast Salish Nations – Beecher Bay, Malahat, Snaw-Naw-As, Songhees and T'Sou-ke)

The British Colonist 1858–1970

The Canadian Press | About Us

The Canadian Press – Wikipedia

The City Talks

The Crazy Wisdom Interview with Jim Robert of Pioneer High School by Maureen McMahon: An Inspired Teacher's Use of Socrates' Call to Action: "The Unexamined Life is not Worth Living"

The Creation of Nunavut – Canada's History

The Discourse

The Discourse — Our 10 Principles

The elements of journalism – American Press Institute ("Here are 10 elements common to good journalism, drawn from the book.")

The Energy Mix – What We Do

The Fraser Institute

The most damaging things happening to Canada are the things you cannot see

The New York Times

The New York Times – Wikipedia

The Oil Blotter: Postmedia & Big Oil's symbiosis (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' The Monitor, May 1, 2021)

The Power of Big Oil | Frontline | PBS (A three-part series, April 19, April 26, and May 3, 2022: "Denial", 85 minutes, "Doubt", 54 minutes, and "Delay", 54 minutes)

The Province of British Columbia

The Scow Institute

The story of Africville | CMHR (Canadian Museum for Human Rights)

The Supreme Court of Canada

The Tyee | About Us

The World's Richest and Poorest Countries

Thomson Reuters | About Us

Time in Ukraine (EET: Eastern European Standard Time and MSK: Moscow Standard Time)

To understand B.C.'s push for the Coastal GasLink pipeline, think fracking, LNG Canada and the Site C Dam | The Narwal

Trevor Hancock – Wikipedia (He was the first leader of the Green Party of Canada)

Trevor Hancock: B.C. government's LNG infatuation makes it dangerously radical – Victoria Times Colonist (published Sunday, April 24, 2022, page 13, in the Times Colonist's Islander section)

Tsilhqot'in Nation v. British Columbia (Supreme Court of Canada)

UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification

United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect (Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes, and Ethnic Cleansing)

UN Web TV (United Nations)

UVic Libraries

Vision Green 2020 (Green Party of Canada)

Volodymyr Zelenskyy – Wikipedia (6th President of Ukraine)

War Crime – Wikipedia

Welcome to Nunavut.com

Welcome to the Jack Webster Foundation – Jack Webster Foundation (about the sponsors and winners of the Webster Awards for journalism in BC)

Welcome to the City of Victoria Archives' Online Search

Welcome to the T'Sou-ke Nation

Welcome to the United Nations

What Does "Two-Spirit" Mean? | InQueery | them (YouTube 6 minutes 16 seconds)

What Is Climate Change? | United Nations

What is The Christian Science Monitor?

What's a heat pump and how does it work? (BC Hydro)

Why BC's protected and conserved areas aren't equal – CPAWS British Columbia

Winter Solstice Educational Packet – Sierra Club BC

Working with central agencies - Canada.ca (There are three central agencies in the Government of Canada: the Privy Council Office (PCO), the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS), and the Department of Finance Canada (FIN).)

Yellowhead Institute (a First Nation-led research centre based in the Faculty of Arts at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario)

Yellow journalism – Wikipedia

Your privacy rights | Office of the Privy Commissioner of Canada

Yukon Native Language Centre (Yukon College)

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Humanitarian Sites

About Reaching Home: Canada's Homelessness Strategy

Alliance Against Displacement

Amnesty International Canada

Anti-Slavery International – Let's End Modern Slavery Together

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) | United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women

Correctional Service of Canada | About Us

Cultural Survival

Employment Equity Act (Canada)

Equal Voice

Final Report | MMIWG (Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls)

FRACKINGDANGERS.pdf

Free Grassy

Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC)

Friendship Force International

Game Changer | Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (Will provinces and territories meet the new federal child care fee targets? Canadian child care fees 2021, posted May 10, 2022)

Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness

Help Ukraine Vancouver Island (Connecting people and organizations on Vancouver Island to help the people of Ukraine)

How U.S gun ownership became a 'right,' and why it isn't (by Doug Saunders, The Globe and Mail)

Human Rights Watch

Human Trafficking Indicators (UNODC, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime)

Indigenous Community Media Fund

Indigenous Nationhood Movement

Indigenous Rights Radio

Interactive Game Changer | The Monitor (Child care fees in Canada: The federal government has set a 50% fee reduction target. Are provincial and territorial plans up to the task? posted May 22, 2022)

Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria

Man Camps Fact Sheet – Honor The Earth

Mother's Day Proclamation – Wikipedia (the "Appeal to womanhood throughout the world" by Julia Ward Howe)

Native Women's Association of Canada

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Oxfam International

Random Act of Kindness Day

Regional Housing First Program

Right Livelihood

SumOfUs

The Council of Canadians

The Mustard Seed

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC)

UNDESA Division For Inclusive Social Development Ageing | United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Turns 14 | Cultural Survival (UNDRIP timeline)

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)

United Nations Human Rights | Office of the High Commissioner

United Way Centraide Canada

United Way Greater Victoria

UniversalGiving: About

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Victoria Foundation

War Child | Helping War-Affected Children Reclaim Their Childhood

What Are Man Camps? | secwepemculecw

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Job Search Sites

BC Care / EngAge BC Careers & Training: HaIL is Home and Independent Living [HaIL Training Program]

ECO Canada | Environmental Jobs, Certification, and Training

Employment and Social Development Canada

"HOME TO ME", N'we Jinan Artists (Grassy Narrows First Nation – YouTube, 5 minutes, 13 seconds)

Jabless Jobs Inc.–Non-discriminatory Employment Service

Job Bank

Langford Job Bank

Welcome to the National Occupational Classification 2016

Yellow Pages for MyTELUS | Canada's Business Directory

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My Favorites [sic]

#StandingWomen (Sharon Mehdi's story, The Great Silent Grandmother Gathering, in the language of your choice)

3 qualities of successful Ph.D. students: Perseverance, tenacity and cogency

AccuRadio, Native American: Wide Playlist

A Faithful Election Conversation 2021 (YouTube, 1 hour 25 minutes)

BC Transit Schedules and Maps

CBC Music Playlists

danah michele boyd (what's in a name?)

Dogpatch

eBiblelesson

Elementary algebra – Wikipedia (secondary school level)

Ending Sentences With Prepositions: Is it Allowed?

Good Sunday Morning (weekly newsletters from Elizabeth May)

Greeting Cards & Animated Ecards | Jacquie Lawson Cards

Heavenly Hymns

Honest Government Ad | Carbon Capture and Storage (YouTube, 4 minutes 44 seconds)

Hymnstream

Hymnstream – Christmas Light

L'il Abner

OneLook Dictionary Search

Pogo (comic strip) – Wikipedia

Qallunaat! Why White People Are Funny (National Film Board documentary)

Quote Investigator

SELF Nutrition Data | Food Facts, Information & Calorie Counter

StartPage Search Engine

The 24 Greek Alphabet Letters in Uppercase

The Church, punctuated.

The Emphasis element

The lonely death of Chanie Wenjack, by Ian Adams, Feb. 1, 1967

The Secret Path, by Gord Downie (YouTube) (about Chanie Wenjack)

The UVic Writer's Guide: The Complete Table of Contents

The Wilds

Word Reference (multilingual translations)

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Storytelling Sites

Around Town Tellers

Eth-Noh-Tec: Asian American Kinetic Storytelling Theater!

Four Stories Of How Things Came To BE – WSANEC Leadership Council

Grimms' Fairy Tales

'I Was Alone in a Canoe. But It Was a Magic Canoe' | The Tyee

Magic Canoe

"Mo Yan–Nobel Lecture: Storytellers". Nobelprize.org. 13 Dec 2012

Pandemic prompts Sncewips Heritage Museum workers to share captikw (stories) through funny videos

Phyllis' Story: the original orange shirt

Phyllis Webstad – On Orange Shirt Day (YouTube, 7 minutes)

Red Internacional de Cuentacuentos (RIC) International Storytelling Network

Roy Henry Vickers

SOS: Searching Out Stories Archive | Story Lovers World

Storytellers of Canada / Conteurs du Canada (SC/CC)

Storytell List

Storytime with Sncewips – Sncewips Heritage Museum (all videos)

Telling Our Twisted Histories | CBC Podcasts

The Story of Stuff (video)

Tim Sheppard's Storytelling Resources for Storytellers

Tommy Douglas's story of Mouseland: A political allegory (from the CBC Digital archives, broadcast on January 1, 1961)

Vancouver Society of Storytelling Facebook site (Note: Society dissolved April 22, 2018)

Victoria Storytellers' Guild

Wild Genius | Journeys | Storycarrier (mentorship/training program)

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Technology Sites

Building Global Community (Mark Zuckerberg's February 16, 2017 letter, "To our community, ....")

Change history for Microsoft Privacy Statement (updated changes in policies and practice, started July 2015)

Deb Roy: The birth of a word Video on TED.com

Debt, The First 5000 Years, by David Graeber (2011)

Delivering Community Power: How Canada Post can be the hub of our Next Economy

Dr. Amit Goswami, Ph.D.: Theoretical Quantum Physicist (The Quantum Activist documentary)

Flu deaths reality check | CBC News (Health – Analysis, by Kelly Crowe, November 25, 2012, "last updated November 12, 2020")

Founder's Letter, 2021 | Meta (Mark Zuckerberg, October 28, 2021)

Greens Connect (Green Party of Canada)

Here's how I used to edit my selfies to look pretty—and why I won't do it anymore (Green Party of Canada)

How Machines Learn (YouTube)

Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, by Alanis Obomsawin (National Film Board, 2 hours)

Keeping tabs on Canada's Parliament | openparliament.ca (to receive e-mail alerts about what your representatives in Ottawa are saying, etc.)

Kids ToDo List: A To-Do App for Children | AT HelpDesk (A Neil Squire Program)

Letter and signatories calling for the protection of British Columbia’s iconic old-growth forests (October 8, 2021)

Manufacturing Consent–Noam Chomsky and the Media (movie)

Marc's Letter from 2040 | CCPA Policy Note

Michael Geist – Wikipedia

MONEY, by Mildred L. LeBlond, C.S.B.

'Network Propoganda' explored (a Harvard University Gazette synopsis of the book)

Network Propoganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics (free online access to this hardcopy book)

On COVID restrictions, our governments keep firing up the gaslights and shifting the goalposts (CBC, December 3, 2021)

Plugin BC: your hub to find out the latest on EVs in BC

PressReader

Raven People Rising (Raven Trust’s award-winning short documentary, 30 minutes)

RHC's FAQs & Self-help Resources to Resolve Computer & Internet Issues

Signatories | Climate Actions (An urgent call to the BC Government, September 2021)

Technologies of Consciousness, Creating Peace Through Consciousness-Based Solution brochure (a February 25, 2022 PowerPoint presentation about benefits of Transcendental Meditation, from Creatively United site)

The Corporation | YouTube

The Facebook Company Is Now Meta | Meta (October 28, 2021)

The New Corporation | The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel

The One Percent | YouTube

The planet is changing. So will our journalism | CBC News (October 18, 2021)

The Vaccine – The Fifth Estate (October 14, 2021, CBC Gem, 45 minutes)

The World is Watching: Protect Old Growth Forests in B.C. ("Indigenous leaders, celebrities and scientists are coming together to demand [British Columbia, Canada] Premier John Horgan take urgent action to protect the last old growth forests in British Columbia"), (June 17, 2021, YouTube, 1 minute)

Unicode | Overview

Victoria Grant and Public Banking | YouTube

Visual Carbon: Frontpage (Visual carbon charts)

Welcome to Meta (was Facebook)

Who Killed the Electric Car? – Wikipedia

Wikipedia's List of Longevity claims

Wikipedia's List of oldest living people

Wikipedia's List of oldest people

Wikipedia's List of the verified oldest people

World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) International Cloud Atlas

World Population Clock: 7.9 Billion People (2022)