Adams River Salute to the Sockeye 2018

We spent a few days up at the Salute to the Sockeye festival the last few days at the former Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park.

The park was recently officially, and rightfully, renamed Tsútswecw Provincial Park. (I’ve read news reports that family of the late Haig-Brown — one of Canada’s most famous environmentalists and nature writers — supports the renaming).

This year is a dominant run, and though it’s been slow shaping up, it was still awesome. I think this is the third or fourth dominant run that we’ve taken in — they happen every four years, with slower runs in between.

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There’s No Defence For Rape

This needs repeating.

I shared this in a FB post earlier, but it really needs to sink in and be widely shared. Dunno who Prokopetz is, or if the source was quoted correctly, but the message matters.

“Rape is the only crime on the books for which arguing that the temptation to commit it was too clear and obvious to resist, is treated as a defence. For every other crime, we call that a confession.” Prokopetz.

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