Royal Roads University

Is there such a thing as this kind of voter confusion? Let's explore that a little bit more.

David Black is an associate professor in the School of Communication and Culture at Royal Roads University.

Good morning, David.

Good morning, Sydney.

And I'll read a portion of that email because it directly applies here.

In that email I wrote, on your next visit to Royal Roads University campus in Langford, I encourage you to look across the parking lot to the vacant condo building known as Denver 1 or Ridgeview Place.

And you better act now before it gets demolished.

The natural outcome of Bill M216 is that what happened with Ridgeview Place in Langford will happen again in other jurisdictions and that the checks and balances that a local government could and should put in place to ensure adequate peer review and oversight will be prohibited by law.

And it gave me the opportunity to work with Phil Cady as the postdoctoral fellow doing this work.

And Phil, coincidentally, is the first graduate of the Master of Arts of Leadership and Training at Royal Roads University, which was launched in 1996.

I was his faculty member then.

Oh, wow.

But make no mistake about it, I was drawn to community.

I was drawn to a sense of community.

And I think at Royal Roads University, there is one hallmark of the university, and that is the way that it creates

and sustains community over time.

as economic growth.

You might be familiar that Langford back in 2015 actually had a document that was prepared by a group of Royal Roads University students, used to be hosted on the Langford website, had problems finding it recently, although I do have the Wayback Machine link posted online.

It talks about the Western Painted Turtle management plan that the city had done for it.

This, of course, plan is actually referenced in Later on iterations in 2022 and elsewhere building upon it.

But I just thought that it was a pretty good reflection because I don't remember hardly any outrage in Langford in terms of that.

I know that there were some folks who were concerned.

That's how the turtle management plan got written by the four students at Royal Roads University in the first place.

That's what led.

Count of nine MLAs to have quit for that reason.

Here to help us unpack the mess that is this situation and where the B.C. Conservatives go from here, is David Black, a faculty member in the School of Communication and Culture at Royal Roads University.

Thanks for joining us again, David.

How are you this morning?

And so, you know, we're just looking at a legislature where, in fact, the fiscal conservatives are kind of running the show.

They may not be the official opposition, but they will be the most organized and most vocal, you know, putting the case to the government.

David Black is a faculty member in the School of Communication and Culture at Royal Roads University.

Thanks so much for your time this morning.

Then, with Google caving to Trump to rename Lake Ontario Lake America as Trump leans on Apple to change their maps, we will examine Canadians' attitudes towards the need to defend themselves against a possible aggressor, with those believing an attack on the United States most likely 10 points higher than for either Russia or China.

Joining us is Thomas Homer Dixon, founder and executive director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia.

For nearly two decades, he directed the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto, and until recently was the founding director of the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation at the University of Waterloo.

His books include The Upside of Down, Catastrophe Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization, The Ingenuity Gap, Can We Solve the Problems of the Future?, and Commanding Hope, The Power We Have to Renew a World in Peril.

We're back looking into how Google has caved to Trump to rename Lake Ontario, Lake America, as Trump leans on Apple to change their maps and examine Canadians' attitudes toward the need to defend themselves against a possible aggressor from the South.

Welcome back.

I'm Ian Masters and this is Background Briefing, available 24-7 at backgroundbriefing.org. And joining us now from Canada is Thomas Homer-Dixon, Founder and Executive Director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia.

For nearly two decades, he directed the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto, and until recently was the founding director of the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation at the University of Waterloo.

And I think it's weird for any number of reasons, but I digress.

Text here at 71010 writes, I'm hearing a full on Adventure Park water slides oceanfront pool at Royal Roads.

Exciting or no? Well, maybe.

But again, that doesn't have to be the only outcome in this.