Year: 2019
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Simple Answers to Complex Problems
In today’s political environment we are blessed with leaders who are able to resolve some of the most complicated problems with simple ways out. The expansion of the Trans-Mountain pipeline is a case in point: kill the expansion, save the whales. The first question is are the whales facing a problem? Fisheries and Oceans Canada…
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A Tree, A Blade of Grass by Shinzo Maeda
in: Book Report
Shinzo Maeda (1922 – 1998) was a Japanese photographer known for his landscapes images. The poet Kenkichi Kusumoto introduces the book and the photographer by stating: I am a poet not a photographer, but I feel that photography and haiku have the same origins, and I am deeply touched by each of the photos of…
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Liberty Theatre by Rosalind Fox Solomon
in: Book Report
Presented square, shot in black and white, the physicality of the photographs engender a sense of the past. Although most of the photographs are from the 1970s, 80s, 90s, they have a feel from 1960’s; a sense of that period’s naïveté, but also the presumption, entitlement, and hope are seen in the eyes some; resignation,…