Yearly Archives: 2009

Lots of fruit to pick these days. I’ve been blackberrying, of course and then Judy connected me with the owner of a fig tree which was laden with green figs and I joined my first pick with the Fruit Tree … Continue reading →

They’ve really done it this time. A new GM corn variety has been approved for planting in Canada by CFIA without being subjected to any safety testing. CBAN’s campaign asks us to let our government know this is not ok, … Continue reading →

I was by coincidence invited along to the last ever Grapevine event last Thursday. The Grapevine was started five years ago by a group of entrepreneurial women who thought the best thing they could do for small businesses in Victoria … Continue reading →

The blackberries have been calling me and I have been answering by the bucketful. These are, as I have said before, Himalayan blackberries, and they are the ones everyone thinks of when you say ‘blackberry’. They’re big, fat and in … Continue reading →

A second chance this morning to listen to the listenable David Suzuki, whose one hour special The Last Call is, happily, available on podcast. He took a look at our illusions about the immutability of the consumer economy and its … Continue reading →