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"Half of park, street trees at end of cycle" by Bill Cleverley (Times-Colonist)

City of Victoria has a couple of parks master plan workshops coming up this month, January 09 (tomorrow & on 1/24) to figure out how to manage continuation and replacement of current "urban forest." (See city website for "Urban Forest Master Plan".)

[Note that the statistics given in this article apply to the City of Victoria (which is downtown core and core neighbourhoods, ~80K pop.), NOT the Greater Victoria area nor the CRD (Capital Regional District), which is 13 municipalities. CRD/ Greater Victoria municipal politics is screwy - we badly need amalgamation of the core municipalities (Victoria, Oak Bay, Saanich, Esquimalt, View Royal).]

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More than half the 40,000 trees in Victoria's parks and boulevards are reaching the end of their life cycle.
"It's not until you start looking up [that] you see what's there and the impact it has on the city. It's a key part of what makes Victoria the great place it is."
Managing trees is not as simple as replacing old and rotting trees, Speed said.
Take, for example, the chestnut trees along Cook Street, many of which are 70 or 80 years old and nearing the end of their lives. "People are pretty attached to them, so cutting them down is a pretty challenging thing for residents and for the businesses there," Speed said.
The trees are also difficult to remove and affect infrastructure such as water, gas and sewer lines. Then there's the question of what to plant in their place.
But the chestnuts have to be dealt with. During last winter's severe windstorms, three came down -- one taking out the side of an apartment building.
Coun. Chris Coleman hopes work now being undertaken will result in a funding strategy for tree replacement.
He notes the city is responsible for about 40,000 trees, about half of which are boulevard trees.
"Two thousand of those at the moment are holes," and need to be replaced, Coleman said. More important, however, is developing a series of succession plans for the long term, he said. "A lot of the trees we have were planted in a short period of time. They then all grow up and they all start dying."
The value of the city's trees is estimated at more than $80 million, a figure that would be significantly higher if trees on private land -- which represent 30 to 40 per cent of Victoria's tree canopy -- were factored into the equation.
The city has hired Gye and Associates Urban Forestry Consultants Ltd. to review the urban forest and develop the master plan. Key issues to be addressed include:
- Balancing urban development with tree conservation.
- Protecting significant treed areas and increasing biodiversity.
- Creating strategies for communities to best influence the treed character of their neighbourhoods.
- Determining if the city should be planting more trees and if so, where and what kind.
- Minimizing negative impacts of existing and new trees.
- Planning for the effects of climate change on the urban forest.

"Financial 9-1-1: Implications of the Economic Crisis - The UVic President's Panel on the Economy"

Podcast of the panel/symposium hosted by University of Victoria on 11/18/08 re. "Financial 9-1-1: Implications of the Economic Crisis - The UVic President's Panel on the Economy"
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How might the current economic crisis affect your house, your job, your future? Gain insight and a fresh perspective on the global financial crisis from this panel discussion featuring business, economic, and financial experts from UVic and the community.

Speakers: Graham Voss, UVic, Associate Professor, Department of Economics
Basma Majerbi, UVic, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Business
Tom Siemens, RBC, Vice President Commercial Banking
Robert Jawl, Jawl Properties, Principal
Tony Gage, Head, JEA Pension System Solutions
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Local perspective.

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Google Transit Partner Program

Tell me again why Victoria is not yet hooked into this? Vancouver transit did it - why not BC Transit in Victoria?

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Stop Global Warming: Questions for Candidates in Victoria Municipal Election ('08)

These are questions put together by UUs in James Bay, the first part directed at municipal candidates. They're excellent and to the point, and give a concrete point-of-reference for how even municipal politicians might address the global climate issue without resorting to pie-in-the-sky or motherhood statements.

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The Future is Now (Joseph Boutilier): Google Maps

This is a very cool implementation of Google maps, built by Joseph Boutilier (at 18 the youngest candidate in the current Victoria municipal election). He took a map of Victoria and added geo-links to connect specific sites with specific issues (and his proposed policies/ approaches). Very nice work.

Tags: maps, victoria, politics, apps, municipal_elections on 2008-11-12 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Victoria Earthquake Maps

Earthquake hazards mapping for Greater Victoria, including amplification, liquifaction, and other risks, relative to one another for the region.

Basically, if I can just make sure I'm at home (in Rockland -- *rock* land, see?) when the big one strikes, I could be alright. Small comfort, though...

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"Waste not; Making the most of our sewage" 2007-waste-not.pdf (application/pdf Object)

one-page PDF, "Waste not; Making the most of our sewage"

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Capital Regional District's Annual Reports Garner Top Honours for Fourth Year Running - CivicInfo BC - News

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Gawker and the Rage of the Creative Underclass -- New York Magazine

References to a "creative underclass" and "roiling Schadenfreude" of course set off bells for anyone familiar with the Victoria BC scene, which has long sustained itself on highly creative (often volatile) people living on substandard wages. True, that might be the only thing Victoria and NYC have in common, but the socially determined psychology suggested by the author's intro makes me want to read this with an eye on our local scene. We have in this city "a huge cheering section for failure," as a local commentator once put it, and maybe Grigoriadis's article will shed light on how that happens.

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Vancouver Island History - historian Maureen Duffus

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YATES EAST OF DOUGLAS; BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA AT LEFT - B.C. Archives

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LOOKING NORTH UP DOUGLAS - B.C. Archives

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Cruise-ship business booming

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CNW Group: CAJ welcomes reinstatement of CanWest columnist

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more fromwww.newswire.ca

news release from CanWest Global Communications Corporation reporting on the Canadian Association of Journalists' relief over the rehiring of Vivian Smith (see Public Eye Online, http://www.publiceyeonline.com/archives/001652.html and other entries from earlier in the July archive).
post by lampertina on 2006-07-25

whose contract was terminated earlier this month after
advertisers expressed concerns to the paper's publisher about one of her
stories.
the CAJ had expressed its concerns about what it sees
as the increasingly pervasive blurring of the line between news coverage and
advertising in markets across the country, citing Smith's case as one example.
the occasional slip-ups
rapid response of the Times Colonist and CanWest
with the good
people
The CAJ remains concerned that some media outlets view tying news
coverage to advertising as an acceptable practice. One such example is the
Alberta Fairview Post, part of the Bowes Publishers Ltd. chain. Its publisher
last week verified a reader's suspicions that a large local event was not
covered because its organizers hadn't purchased advertising, but maintains
editorial space is not for sale.

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"Half of park, street trees at end of cycle" by Bill Cleverley (Times-Colonist)

"Financial 9-1-1: Implications of the Economic Crisis - The UVic President's Panel on the Economy"

Google Transit Partner Program

Stop Global Warming: Questions for Candidates in Victoria Municipal Election ('08)

The Future is Now (Joseph Boutilier): Google Maps

Victoria Earthquake Maps

"Waste not; Making the most of our sewage" 2007-waste-not.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Capital Regional District's Annual Reports Garner Top Honours for Fourth Year Running - CivicInfo BC - News

Gawker and the Rage of the Creative Underclass -- New York Magazine

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