Articles Submitted from North Island - Powell River Members
Dandelion Remembered: One Small Woman, One Big Heart
By Pat Carl During the fall of 2019, I worked with a group of mostly women manning (an oxymoron that) the Green Party of Canada, North Island-Powell River (NIPR) candidate’s office located near the intersection of Anderton and Comox Avenue in Comox. One of those women...
Federal Council Election: Organizational Failure or Voter Apathy?
by Pat Carl We cast our votes. The votes were counted. The Green Party of Canada announced the results on May 8. GPC has a partially new Federal Council and Young Greens Council. That’s because elections are held every year but only for a portion of the seats on the...
Refuse to Play the Consumerist Game in a Post-COVID World
by Pat Carl Pre-virus, pre-social distancing, we – the consumers – were tempted to buy products we didn’t need and probably didn’t want. We were hooked on all the latest big-ticket items: devices, clothing, cars, boats, RVs. You name it. Advertising firms and their...
An Invitation to connect more deeply with Mother Earth
By Beverley Howden, EarthCare Team member “The Spirit-that-moves-in-all-things” is a beautiful indigenous description of the oneness, unity of which we are a part. And from Naturalist John Muir (1869), “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to...