Islander

Imax Corp.’s “go big or go home” philosophy took on a new dimension during the launch of its new dual 4k laser projection system with 3-D at Imax Victoria. Theatre director Paul Wild and his team pulled out all the stops at Royal B.C.

To say a sewage-treatment plant at Clover Point is facing an uphill battle is an understatement. Unlike Esquimalt, this is a waterfront park that, curiously, is zoned residential.

Still in the mix as a fallback is the former B.C. Hydro/Transport Canada property in Rock Bay, which is to be transferred to the Esquimalt and Songhees First Nations. A single plant at Rock Bay, with an estimated cost of $1.

Capital Regional District staff say the land owned by the CRD at Macaulay Point is not large enough to support a wastewater treatment plant.

While Esquimalt’s McLoughlin Point is already zoned for a sewage treatment plant, there’s no guarantee the township will allow one to be built there.

The Capital Regional District is closer to a decision on the sewage-treatment issue. But many hurdles remain.

Laurie Carter, a magazine editor from Kelowna, was roaming around the province looking for travel articles to write when she first became aware of Emily Carr. She was at the village of Skedans in Haida Gwaii.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on March 18, 1939. I wrote last week about the one fine day when I turned my back on all troublesome things and indulged in a fiesta of spring sunshine and budding trees.

You are fed up with the high price of vegetables at the grocery store. And have you seen what they are asking for meat? It’s crazy. It’s time to go back to the land — or at least the backyard — and grow your own food. You can hunt, live off the land.

Evolution can wipe out a species as surely as pollution, says a biologist who has witnessed and documented the phenomenon in a Vancouver Island lake.