Over the months, the list of people signing up to receive an email notification of my morning posts has been growing. There are a few more of you each day. In most cases, I have no idea who you are. It’s just an email address, many of which are nondescript. You could be here, or there, or anywhere. There is a smaller subset (but also growing) of people who will leave a comment. I appreciate all of your contributions to individual posts. Please keep them coming.
For the most part I have little trouble identifying content topics and with the help of my friend Celia (who edits all of these posts – thank you Celia!), I can stick to the writing and the posting, and it is all quite manageable.
However, I feel it is time to switch it up a little. I would like to hear your ideas for blog topics. So, please leave topics that ideas that you would like me to explore in the comments section below and we’ll see what happens!
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For critical needed Green votes: Please explore how NDP think tax credit that makes “six figure” money for film industry trades, not better used for teachers and nurses? An industry that pays six figures to those with no or little related education, and most often no certification, but lets teachers and nurses both educated and certified be paid so poorly. Couldn’t twelve to sixteen hour days in film be brought down to eight to help employ more young people. I’ve worked in film all across Canada from Trailer Park Boys to artistically critical “Terminal City” shot in Victoria and can’t believe the crime and corruption in some film unions? Even worked for CBC in Toronto on national political matters. As an added note for Federal Liberals I did mapping of Broadcast footprints with psychographics for Western Canada. So may know more than most could ever imagine.
Hey Adam, love all your work. I would like to hear how your day to day life in the Ledg goes. Do you find it hard to restrain yourself when hearing the same party line rhetoric over and over? Years ago I was in the BC Ledg and was shocked at how little attention the member of the opposition had from the members of the other parties. Again love your work and your podcasts as well.
How do you see the integration of the green parties from civic to international?
You are doing a good job Adam. Here are some ideas for the Provincial Government to pursue:
-Public safety minister should be going after Burnaby tank farm. 30,000 people could be trapped in the event of a fire.
-Minister of Transport should be going after the freighters we have everywhere at anchor.
-Westridge Marina cannot be allowed blasting, drilling, and pile driving.
-The Mining Act needs to be revised in light of climate change.
-Wildlife crossing structures need to be part of the cost of doing business for highway conststruction . We thousands of vehicle kills every year.
-We need a ban on Round-Up (glyphosate).
-Stop site-C. Elizabeth May has a good idea of how to increase power there.
-Public education about not having balloons outside. Remnants are killing birds.
-Stop logging old-growth forests. Help local sawmills retrofit to handle smaller wood.
-Public education on the real facts of TMX: It’s not a “twinning”. It’s not 7-fold increase in tanker traffic (more like 15-fold). There is no market waiting for diluted bitumen. Shipping bitumen solid-form by rail is safe. Easily picked up. You warm the rail car at the end to get it out. Canadian oil should be refined in Canada for Canadian consumption. That’s what’s in the public interest.
So far though I have left a few comments I have no idea if you read them or others as I never receive comments to my email that other people have posted. I hope mine have been getting through to you.
Thank you Dan. I read all the comments. However, I don’t respond to them all! Thank you for engaging here I really do appreciate it!
Adam: I understand your time crunch. In fact you are one of the few bloggers I have experienced who actually blog. Usually days or even weeks go by before the next entry. Anyway somehow I must have clicked the right square ands today I got a whole bunch of comments from other people to this blog. I must have been doing something wrong before.
How about farmworker housing?
(Thanks for coming to Salt Spring to talk and listen on this important topic!)
What is at the heart of the problem of getting BC Ferries to manage the company so they REALLY respond to customer and citizen input about scheduling. There are some serious problems in the Southern Gulf Islands with ship sizes, making connections, overloads, keeping on time that don’t seem to improve year after year after year.