If you've been listening long, you know it's CFUV's Victoria Day special, an homage to the 'Garden City,' Victoria, namesake of Her Royal Highness Princess Victoria of Kent, Her Majesty the Queen of England, Imperial Majesty Queen-Empress of India, Defender of the Faith, Princess of Hanover and Duchess of Brunswick and Lunenburg, Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duchess in Saxony etc., etc. et cetera.
Thankfully, we do this only once a year, on that day dedicated to celebrating the Queen's memory across the realm - save Quebec. For our part, here at CFUV, we spend the entire day looking at the past, present, and possible futures our fair burg has to offer.
Leading us first through that wild and winding history up to the present day, and looking forward too is award-winning journalist, editor, author, civic activist and co-founder of the watchdog website, JohnsonStreetBridge.org, Ross Crockford.
Ross was a long-time contributor to, and editor for, the city's iconic weekly, Monday Magazine. He currently freelances for Western Living, Adbusters, Explore, and the Globe and Mail among other publications. Crockford is too the recipient of a Western Magazine Award for business writing, the Jack Webster Award of Distinction for investigative reporting, and a National Magazine Award for sports writing. His book, Victoria: The Unknown City is an alt. guidebook for both the seemly and lesser so sides of town, covering the city's shining and seedy past and present.
Ross Crockford in the first half.
And; Victoria is changing fast, but nowhere are those changes more keenly felt than in the city's first residential neighbourhood, the sequestered corner of James Bay. There, densification, gentrification, and the exploding popularity of Victoria as a cruise ship destination conspire with a conspicuous lack of considered planning to create over-crowded, chaotic and dangerous conditions for residents and visitors alike. Marg Gardiner is president of the James Bay Neighbourhood Association. The JBNA is a non-profit society that has, since 1993, served as a conduit and link for residents to ensure quality of life and the preservation of neighbourhood values; values threatened today like never before.
Marg Gardiner and James Bay weathering a storm of popularity along Victoria's waterfront in the second half.
And, Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV Radio broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with some of the latest goings on going on on our city's streets, and beyond. But first, Ross Crockford and getting to know our largely unknown city, Victoria.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.ca/
Welcome to GR, etc. With BC's provincial election less than 24 hours away, there's one issue that we can cover without fear of trespassing on media elections gag orders. Neither of the two parties likely to lead the next government oppose open-pen fish farming in the province.
Despite mountains of evidence suggesting the folly of concentrated feed lots for fish; the obvious ill effects on the fish bred in cramped captivity; dubious health benefit claims of a human diet including these drugged and unnaturally sustained creatures; proven dangers pathogens from these operations pose to wild fish; the standing on its head of the precautionary principle required to keep this industry afloat, with the many known and suspected negative effects it represents, the BC Liberals and BC New Democratic Party both essentially support business as usual.
It's all so much of more of the same for BC-based scientist and wild salmon crusader Alexandra Morton, who last week, along with Ecojustice filed a best practices law suit against salmon farming giant Marine Harvest and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, (DFO) for the alleged "transfer of diseased farmed Atlantic salmon into waters shared by wild fish." As disturbing as the ramifications of Marine Harvest's willful, and possibly illegal, endangering of wild salmon in this manner are, (not to mention the apparent lackadaisical policing of its own policies by the Department of Oceans and Fisheries appear to be in this case, and others) more so is what this case reveals about another frightening virus, joining the already devastating and universally feared ISA virus afflicting farmed salmon stock, and its possible release into the wild.
Alexandra Morton back in court in the first half.
And; this May 15th marks Nakba Day for those within occupied Palestine, and the millions more comprising the Palestinian diaspora. Nakba Day's modern manifestation commemorates the day after Israel's 1948 declaration of independence.
Jon Elmer is a Canadian writer and photojournalist specializing in the Middle East and Canadian foreign and military policy. He has lived in and reported from Occupied Palestine for the better part of the last decade, based primarily in Jenin, Bethlehem and Gaza City. Jon's also reported from more than a dozen countries from the middle east, to Nepal, Western Sahara, the Basque country and right here in Canada. His articles and photographs are featured in the Journal of Palestine Studies, Le Monde diplomatique, The Progressive, Al Jazeera English among others. He is also a contributor, with Anthony Fenton to the book, 'Empire's Ally: Canada in Afghanistan.'
Jon Elmer and marking time passed in Occupied Palestine in the second half.
And, Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV Radio broadcaster Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with some of what's good to do in and around our city in the coming week. But first, Alexandra Morton and keeping PRV in its cage.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.ca/
Went down to the 32nd annual Earth Walk in Victoria today (April 20). I buttonholed a few local notables along the way. It was different from all the other walks, in that local organizers had abandoned the concept. Last year, corporate involvement soured the usual suspect toilers who'd put the show together with shoe-strings; this year they didn't show up. It was left for the sophomore Creatively United for the Planet, a trades fair and paid showcase for green-minded companies, artisans, and musicians to pick up the slack. Rather than culminate at the BC Legislature buildings for political posturing and speechifying, the marchers were ushered into the grounds of St. Ann's Academy, where vendors and paid stage shows awaited.
Monsanto's GM alfalfa is poised to be released in Ontario. It will only be a matter of time before it is released across Canada. It must be stopped. The National Farmers Union-Ontario has called for consumers to support farmers in a Day of Action to Stop GM Alfalfa .This Day of Action will be across the country on April 9 Ontario farmers have organized protest
rallies in 12 communities, in Ontario including in Ottawa here a final rubber-stamp to release Roundup Ready alfalfa is expected any day. On There are also 11 rallies confirmed in support of Ontario farmers happening in towns in BC, Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan (at the office of the Minister
of Agriculture), Quebec, and Nova Scotia.
Every year, a group of stalwarts stand at the statue, 'Spirit of the Republic' to honour the memory of those Canadians who faced the Fascist threat in Spain. It is in the spirit of peace and hope for the end of militarism the commemorators brave the chill winds of November and give speeches remembering their, and their family's experiences of war.
G-Radio is dedicated to social justice, the environment, community, and providing a forum for people and issues not covered in corporate and state media. Gorilla Radio airs live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 102FM, 104.3 cable, and on t
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