Mapping the Mountain Ranges of Vancouver Island
There was no clean map of Vancouver Island’s mountain ranges, so I drew one.
May 14, 2026 ◦ 14 minute ◦
View by: Tags 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. One bluff here above a marsh, one there in the Ogilvies. Carrying both in the same chest. Whose bluff, whose marsh, whose watershed. A question set down for the length of an afternoon. The Kettle Valley's Lesson: Trails Don't Survive Without Rails Beneath Them
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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 ◦Two Bluffs
April 11, 2026 ◦ 2 minute ◦The Rule, and What Exceeds It
April 08, 2026 ◦ 1 minute ◦