Reaching New Heights

Reaching New Heights

Imagine a solitary person walking out onto a soft, padded, stage in front of thousands of people. The crowd is oddly silent, even tense. He turns his back on the audience and looks up at the back wall, covered in pieces of plastic—some small, some large and oddly...

Victoria encourages emergency planning

Fire. Flood. Earthquake. Disaster. Are you ready? Do you have an emergency kit with food, water, spare clothes, a flashlight, whistle and first aid kit handy? The Victoria Emergency Management Agency is holding a series of information sessions this year to make sure...

Urban search and rescue looking for new volunteers

Search and rescue — it is a matter of finding people in the wilderness, pulling them off sinking ships and rescuing injured mountain climbers, right? Wrong. Search and rescue can happen in a city, too, and not just for a missing person. How about when a building —...

B.C.’s climate action agenda threatened

B.C. Transit will likely fail to meet its provincial ridership targets by 2020 according to a new report by John Doyle, B.C.’s auditor general, issued in early December. This report covered five areas the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) investigated in 2012 and...

The evolution of cartography

Romans were known for their roads, but have you ever seen their road map? The Royal B.C. Museum (RBCM) is displaying a printed copy from 1624 — called the Peutinger Table — but the original was from the fifth century. It shows roads from England to Sri Lanka,...