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upcoming campaign. “People feel the increasing income inequality in our society,” Rankin said. Also last weekend, the Liberal Party named lone nominee Paul Summerville its candidate by acclamation. Speaking to supporters at St. Matthias Anglican Church Hall on Saturday, Summerville targeted a secondary sewage treatment facility as a plant “we don’t need and don’t want.”
Despite repeated media campaigns and shocking images of devastation from other parts of the world, the vast majority of B.C. residents are stubbornly unprepared for the day an earthquake strikes. Emergency officials estimate only 14 per cent of British Columbians are prepared for the inevitable big one. Last October, 470,000 people registered in The Great British Columbia Shake Out, a provincewide earthquake drill aimed at preparing everyone in B.C. This year, organizers hope to see that number increase. But despite the co-ordinated education effort, many people living in the high-risk coastal earthquake zone choose to ignore the warnings – a choice largely determined by factors known to University of Victoria environmental psychologist Robert Gifford as “dragons of inaction.” “Although it seems obvious, maybe it’s not that obvious,” he said of the first dragon. “If you haven’t heard of (the need to prepare), you’re not going to do it.” For those who are aware, they often have other things to do, or conflicting goals which stand in the way of planning for disaster. Sometimes people who are closest to a risk actually perceive it as being a smaller risk, Gifford said, perhaps because they don’t want to face the danger or perhaps because it’s easier to suppress it.
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Rankin sweeps NDP nomination race
New to political campaigning, Murray Rankin said he’s been drinking too much coffee and losing weight cycling around Victoria’s neighbourhoods.
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Greater Victoria residents remain largely unprepared for disaster
Elizabeth Buckley School student Jayden Dean watches his balloon expand during an attempt to stage the world’s largest practical science lesson happening simultaneously in multiple locations. Last Friday’s record attempt, which saw students from the independent school conduct several experiments, marked the official launch of National Science and Technology Week and involved roughly 150 schools across Canada. It won’t be known for a while whether the combined effort qualifies for a Guinness World Record.
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“I took nothing for granted – I was running scared the whole election,” he said Monday, after winning a first-ballot vote by NDP members to represent the party in the upcoming federal byelection for Victoria. All his “good old-fashioned” door knocking paid off, as Rankin earned 352 votes at Sunday’s nomination meeting at the University of Victoria. His total was well ahead of runner-up Elizabeth Cull (96 votes), Charley Beresford (51) and Ben Isitt (36). The new candidate said Stephen Harper’s leadership will be the main issue in the
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