For a long time now, I’ve known that I am a hobbit . . . without the furry feet, of course. My Shire is the Bulkley Valley, specifically Quick, B.C., which isn’t a place at all if you’re reading road signs. But it provides me with a simple life and simple pleasures. If the doctor…
“That pipeline has to happen for our country.” Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston delivered this statement during a CBC interview on January 28. Houston said that a bitumen pipeline from Alberta to the north coast of B.C. is key to national unity. He was commenting on a memorandum of understanding signed between the government of…
Looking back at 2025, there was both good and bad news about how we are caring for the world that our Lord has entrusted to us. First, the good news: this past year, for the first time, power generated by solar and wind exceeded coal-generated power. Energy from environmentally friendly sources is now the cheapest…
In an attempt to secure economic sovereignty in Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberal Party say they are focused on “nation-building” that will establish long-term prosperity for the country. Bill C-5, passed by parliament on June 26, gives unprecedented power to the Canadian government to implement projects they believe are in Canada’s national…
Back in the 1970s and 1980s, when I was reporting on all things agriculture around the Annapolis Valley, I heard farmers bragging that, unlike in the Okanagan, we didn’t have to irrigate our crops. Well, that was then. Now, climate change is imposing a very different scene. In the summer of 2025, the rain just…
On more than one occasion I have remarked to my students, “the hardest part about preaching heaven in Vancouver, is that most people think they are already there!” As we move further into a North American culture where fewer people are born nominally Christian, many are finding their expression of transcendence, beauty and longing in…
Earlier this year, the United Nations issued a warning that humanity has two years left to take urgent action on addressing climate change. The historic heat waves, ravaging wildfires and surprise floods of Summer 2024 underscored this warning. The Insurance Bureau of Canada reports that Summer 2024 was the costliest on record, with seven billion…
In 1939, Paul Müller discovered that DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) was a very effective insecticide. It became widely used to kill mosquitoes and reduce the incidence of malaria and other insect-spread diseases. In 1948, Müller received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on the effects of DDT and how it aided the fight against disease….
I grew up as a farm kid who helped milk cows and feed chickens before catching the bus to school. It was on the farm that I learned many of the core values that still drive my work in the city, such as no waste, work hard, care for creation. In my parenting years I…
Almost 40 years ago, by accident or by the hand of God (these can look remarkably similar) we bought a decrepit old house in a very tiny rural town. We bought it only because we needed a place to live in that vicinity, it was available, and it was affordable. Oh, and there was a…
From name to business model, New Jubilee in northeast Edmonton exists to share a uniquely situated bit of creation even beyond the 50-year timeframe for redistribution prescribed in the biblical Jubilee. People come to band birds, hold events in the on-site yurt, tour the forest and participate in two thriving U-pick operations: Lady Flower Gardens…
Not too far away from my home, logging companies have plans to log the headwaters and mid-reaches of several small creeks. According to laws, they must do a survey to determine if the creeks and rills are fish-bearing. If there are sections of the creeks that don’t have fish, dry up in summer or are…
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