Walks with Dogs.
Four Tuesday walks to off leash trails starts March 1. The outings will last around an hour, allowing time for dogs to play.
Start time 11:30 am. Please contact Anita at bluemoose6677@yahoo.com for locations. Happy trails……
The science is clear: we must act, and without delay, to respond to climate change, pollution and to the loss of biodiversity. The environment has become a direct threat to the health and survival of human beings. There is an urgent need to transform our societies so that they contribute to improving the environmental and social conditions on which our health depends.
Where to start? How to take into account social and environmental determinants in an integrated and holistic way in all actions that affect our daily lives?
The concept of planetary health connects the human system and the natural environment on which we depend. Applying this concept in all our actions would allow us to respond to environmental challenges, while improving health, reducing inequalities and social injustices and improving the prosperity of our societies. During this presentation, we will see how the framework for planetary health developed by Brousselle and McDavid (2021) can guide, in a dialogical way, the development and implementation of projects, programs and policies in all areas of application. We will see how this framework can be used by everyone, without the need for particular expertise, thanks to simple tools to support the development of projects, programs and policies. Adopting such an approach would also make it possible to respond in an integrated manner to the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals and to the new Geneva Charter for Well-Being of the WHO.
Professor Brousselle is also the convener of the group UVic in the Anthropocene. She contributes to the analysis and development of theories and methods in evaluation that she applies to various areas of research in public health and health system organization. She is particularly interested in contributing to the eco-social transition for creating more sustainable and healthy societies. During 2011 and 2016, she held the Canada Research Chair in Evaluation and Health System Improvement at the Université de Sherbrooke (Quebec). In her career, she has published over 80 scientific articles and books. In 2017 she received the recognition Mention coup de coeur of the Jean-Pierre-Bélanger Prize from the Quebec Public Health Association (ASPQ) for her public positions defending the public healthcare system.
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A new series of 7 enjoyable walks is planned for 6 Fridays and 1 Thursday, starting on Friday February 4th, 2022. Each walk will take between 60 and 90 minutes. Start time is always 9:30 a.m. Rated ‘easy to moderately easy’ and requiring only a good pair of walking shoes and layered clothing, the walks will deepen our knowledge of parks and trails in the greater Victoria area. You can expect some stops to look at heritage and natural features.
Social time afterwards is not planned in advance but will be decided by the group based on the prevailing Covid rules.
If interested in joining any walk, please email your volunteer leader Juliet during the week preceding each walk to receive details of the meeting place. Looking forward to seeing you on the walks!
jhsimon@shaw.ca
February 4: West Bay Walkway, Songhees
February 18: Fairfield & Rockland
March 4: Tod Inlet: Place of the Blue Grouse
March 18: Gorge Waterway
April 1: Elk/Beaver Lake Provincial Park
Thursday April 14: Hatley Park, Royal Roads U.
April 29: Gordon Head, Tyndall Pk. to Mount Douglas Pk.
“The Nesting Dolls is a vividly rendered, sweeping historical novel. Alina Adams deftly portrays three generations of women, beautifully weaving their coming of age stories about love, sacrifice, family, and ultimately survival. I absolutely devoured this compulsively readable gem of a novel.” (Jillan Cantor, USA Today bestselling author of The Lost Letter and In Another Time).
“A moving saga of three generations of women determined to triumph over the forces of history no matter the cost. The Nesting Dolls is memorable story of courage that is both inspiring and bittersweet.” (David R. Gillham, New York Times bestselling author of City of Women and Annelies).
“The author’s wry Soviet-Jewish humor enlivens the well-developed characters, who make fatal mistakes as well as selfless sacrifices. This is a satisfying, life-affirming saga.” – Publisher’s Weekly.
New York Times best-selling author, soap opera insider, and pioneer in online storytelling, Alina Adams, was born in the Soviet Union and immigrated with her parents to the U.S. at age seven, where she learned English by watching American soap operas at their home in San Francisco. Alina lives in New York City with her husband and their three children (ages 4, 8, 12). She has written about her interracial, interfaith and intercultural family for Interfaith Family Magazine and The Forward and has written columns and articles for dozens of publications. Her full biography can be found on Alina Adams Media.
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Professor Ferguson will describe the nature and forms of money laundering, its extent in Canada and the reasons for that. He will then describe the very adverse consequences that flow from money laundering and he will make some suggestions for reform of the law and its enforcement.
Gerry Ferguson is a professor of law and also a University Distinguished Professor. He is the author of the open access book Global Corruption: Law, Theory and Practice (2018). He is currently a Senior Associate of the International Centre for Criminal Law and a Member of a United Nations Expert Group working on Anti-Corruption Academic materials. He is a former member of the National Advisory Council of the Law Commission of Canada, the Board of Directors of the International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, and an active participant in the Canadian Bar Association, Law Society, and Continuing Legal Education Society activities. He is married, has two daughters and three granddaughters.
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The JCCV Gift Shop is now open and well stocked with all your Chanukah shopping needs; chanukiahs (traditional and LED), candles (traditional and fancy), dreidels (wooden, plastic and fillable), chocolate gelt, cards, gift tags, wrapping paper, kids games, crafts, toys, books, and lots, lots more.
Open Tuesdays to Fridays from 11:00 am to 1:30 pm. Contact Nanci at (250) 812-6551 to arrange an appointment outside of the above hours.
Chanukah 2021 begins on the evening of Sunday, November 28th with the lighting of the first candle, and ends on Monday, December 6th. Best wishes for a Happy Chanukah.
Mark your calendars, Latke Mania by Take Out Only starts on Tuesday, November 30th and runs until Friday, December 17th.
3 Large Potato Latkes with sour cream and apple sauce $12.00.
Large Potato Latkes without sour cream and apple sauce (**Order at least 48 hours in advance**) $36.00/dozen, $20.00/half dozen.
This presentation will cover how memory works and develops through life and what happens to memory as we age. Basic information such as anatomy of memory will be covered, theories surrounding memory development, as well as memory loss and decline in late life.
Jamie Knight is a PhD student in the Department of Psychology. Her research focuses on neuropsychological and olfactory functioning across the lifespan in the context of cognitive decline and neurodegenerative diseases. She has been awarded the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Graduate Scholarship, the AGE-WELL Graduate Student Award in Technology and Aging, and the Ferguson Award in Digital Health and Innovation for her research examining olfactory functioning as one of the earliest markers for dementia.
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Rhea Tregebov is the author of two award-winning novels, Rue des Rosiers and The Knife-Sharpener’s Bell. She has published seven critically acclaimed books of poetry, most recently All Souls’. Her poems have earned the Pat Lowther Award, Prairie Schooner Readers’ Choice Award, and the Malahat Review Long Poem Award. She is also a celebrated author of children’s picture books. Born in Saskatoon and raised in Winnipeg, Tregebov worked for many years as a freelance writer and editor in Toronto. From 2004 to 2017 she was a professor in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. Now an Associate Professor Emerita at UBC, Tregebov continues to live and write in Vancouver.
Rhea Tregebov’s 2019 novel, Rue des Rosiers, won the Western Canada Jewish Book Awards’ Nancy Richler Memorial Prize for Fiction. Rue des Rosiers was also short-listed for the BC/Yukon Book Prize and has received critical acclaim from its reviewers: “Rue des Rosiers is not just an exemplary novel, it’s also an important book that examines anti-Semitism and empathetically puts faces on the victims and aggressors…. [a] richly-layered story.” Rue des Rosiers is an engrossing historical coming-of-age story with a timely examination of hatred’s long consequences. The novel is set in Toronto, Winnipeg and Paris in the spring and summer of 1982. Tregebov offers a moving interrogation of how we find our own and others’ humanity – even when confronted with prejudice and terror. Rue des Rosiers is filled with rich resonances to modern discord, offering insights on how to live courageously in the face of today’s growing levels of hatred.
The novel contains a fictionalized account of an historical terrorist event, the August 9, 1982 attack on the Goldenberg Deli on rue des Rosiers in Paris, in which 26 innocent civilians were killed. This long-ago attack has chillingly current repercussions, with new arrests made in the fall of 2020, and revelations over the past months into the complicity of the French government of the time in not pursuing the investigation.
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Enjoyable social walks starting from different spots in and around Victoria are offered this fall on alternate Sundays at 10:00 a.m. beginning on September 26th.
Less challenging than the previous years Lively Walks, and with opportunities to take in views, local history, architecture and nature, they will be limited to the first 10 to RSVP each time.
As before, no need to commit to the whole series, but because of Covid-19, there can be no last-minute drop-ins. Participants are kindly requested to be fully vaccinated.
The general area will be advertised ahead of time, but the precise meeting place will be given only to those who RSVP. Invitations will go out 1 week beforehand. RSVP is requested by the Friday before each walk.
If you’d like to be on the list, please send your name and phone number to Juliet at jhsimon@shaw.ca.
It will be great to get out on the trails again!
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