The Long Way to Bella Coola
A day on the Northern Sea Wolf, up the fjords to Bella Coola, reading the deep past in the rock.
June 01, 2026 ◦ 2 minute ◦
view_by: tags On Peter Beagle’s The Last Unicorn, and what it teaches about beauty, possession, fidelity, and the cost of becoming real. There was no clean map of Vancouver Island’s mountain ranges, so I drew one. The Narwhal’s reporting on the Kettle Valley Rail Trail decommissioning is solid climate journalism. But it sidesteps the political-economy problem at the heart of every rails-to-trails project in this country. A ranked, opinionated, spreadsheet-haunted attempt to understand who holds power in Canada, and what kind of power they hold. Restoring Vancouver Island’s rail corridor is not a regional ask. It is a national infrastructure argument backed by twenty years of deferred political will. On why the sharpest, safest-seeming stance toward the world is also the one most likely to hollow it out. The island as a body, read for its contents. A bluff above a marsh in Nanaimo, and a question that is already a kind of taking. Not remembered. Recycled. The Sublime Cannot Be Stored Like Treasure
May 17, 2026 ◦ 44 minute ◦Mapping the Mountain Ranges of Vancouver Island
May 14, 2026 ◦ 14 minute ◦The Kettle Valley's Lesson: Trails Don't Survive Without Rails Beneath Them
May 11, 2026 ◦ 10 minute ◦The Top 50 Most Powerful People in Canada
May 09, 2026 ◦ 104 minute ◦The Corridor We Already Own
April 17, 2026 ◦ 19 minute ◦The Quiet Cost of Cynicism
April 11, 2026 ◦ 7 minute ◦Extraction
April 11, 2026 ◦ 2 minute ◦How Can It Be
April 11, 2026 ◦ 2 minute ◦Recycled
April 11, 2026 ◦ 1 minute ◦