} December 12, 2024
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,...Our Digital Print Issue
