Recovery from disaster is a long process, as this Museum of Anthropology exhibition demonstrates. Open until Sept. 19.
“This has all the hallmarks of a SLAPP suit,” said Ezra Morse, a 41-year-old software engineer and defendant in the case. “Developers only have to throw a few thousand dollars at trying to get advocates to shut up.”
SLAPP suits Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation are what the new legislation aims to prevent. Often, they’re filed by large groups with deep financial pockets and a wealth of legal resources against engaged citizens and activists who lack both.
Morse and the Qualicum Nature Preservation Society, a 148-member organization he co-founded in 2020 and serves as president of, are named in a civil claim filed in May by Richard Todsen, Linda Todsen and Todsen Design & Construction Ltd.