SodaStream: Maybe Green, Definitely Not Clean

Read the french version Story and photos by Theresa Wolfwood It seems like a great idea – to buy a counter top device that converts tap water into sparkling fizzy water. Add a line of 100 flavours of sweet syrups; in the words of the…

Mazin Qumsiyeh in Victoria, BC

Palestine today and in the future Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh, Victoria, BC, Canada, April, 2014 Story and photos by Theresa Wolfwood A self-described “troublemaker”, Qumsiyeh is Professor of Biology (Genetics) at the universities of Bethlehem and Birzeit and Director of the Cytogenetic Laboratory, Palestine Museum of…

Submission To Defense Policy Review, Government of Canada – RESPONSE To: ‘The Main Challenges to Canada’s Security”

Theresa Wolfwood 1022 McGregor Ave. Victoria, BC, V8S 3T9                                     July 2, 2016 To: Hon. Harjit Sajjan. MP Minister of National Defence, House of Commons. Ottawa, ON. K1A 0A6                        E: DND_MND@forces.gc.ca The main challenges to Canada’s security, including our social, economic and environmental security,…

Remembering Hiroshima- Nagasaki, August, 1945- 2016

Read the french version “Nuclear-weapon states have kept the world hostage in fear and anxiety while squandering trillions of dollars away from meeting human needs …an intolerable and unacceptable reality.” Setsuko Thurlow, 2015 “Our technical civilization has just reached its greatest level of savagery. We will have…

Theresa Wolfwood reports on ‘Miner’s Memorial Day’ Cumberland, BC, Canada, June, 2004

“Power concedes nothing without a demand…..The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress.” Fredrick Douglass, quoted on Miners’ Memorial Day programme. My home in Victoria is not far from a massive heap of dark stone known as Craigdarroch Castle…