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We are longtime subscribers, and I was delighted this morning to see that venerable and well-liked Stephen Hume is back writing the six-part series on BC@150: Essays in Confederation. He has done well in this initial column on unraveling some of the complexity of the past related to B.C. history, and indeed all of Canada. The mists of the past First Nations, the hint of a reflection of all of Canada written poignantly and more balanced on the historical perspectives.
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I was pleased to read about this deal as it indicates a clear desire and intent to do something important that is long overdue. However, promising and achieving are two very different things, and I believe the governments will find it very difficult to make these promises a reality. Providing subsidies to parents is only a mater of money, and is fairly easy to accomplish. The problems occur when efforts are made to increase the number of child-care spaces available.
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One is that Canada’s climate-change policies focus too much on prevention and too little on adaptation. This is doubly sad when you consider that Canada has absolutely no control over the path of climate change. We emit only 1 1/2 per cent of global greenhouse gases (World Resources Institute, 2021, Climate Watch Country Historical Greenhouse Gas Emissions), and many of our expensive climate change policies only nibble at the edges of this amount and do little to prevent the loss of Canadian lives and property.
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