In 1996, I joined the federal treaty negotiation office as a public information and consultation advisor. One of the treaty tables I was working with was a small First Nation near Vancouver. My colleague at the Tsawwassen First Nation was a young communications officer called Kim Baird. Eleven years later, Kim has led her community to approve the first ever treaty negotiated under the BC Treaty Process. It has been a long ride, and Tsawwassen is bucking a lot of currents that suggest that the current treaty process is a hoodwink and a sham. I have my own feelings about …
…as if you haven’t noticed. Ahh…enjoying our summer. Also, I’m blogging a little at a new blog of mine called The Tao of Taekwondo, focusing a little attention on my martial arts practice, so you might be interested to follow there, if that subject grabs you.
“I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul.” — Henry Miller, The Tropic of Cancer He would have loved blogging. [tags]Henry Miller[/tags]