u/SamVekemans

I've built the proposed National Cycling Route Network for Canada, my challenge is to make it so that anyone can easily understand what it is and how to use it and who it's for.

It's rather technical, do I want to make it easier so then non-technical people can make use of it for trip planning and during the trip.

There is a lot of information on my website, I just don't know how to simplify it.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

A good TED talk.

In case it missed your newsfeed, and here's the link to the actual Bill.

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https://www.parl.ca/documentviewer/en/45-1/bill/C-25/royal-assent

The Saanich Complainers Society was out in full force.

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Do they even? Nope.

I have use of a balcony that has full sun, and would love to have a bunch of native plants growing. But the problem is that garden centres and anywhere that sells plants don't have a section for 'Native Plants'.

It would be great if Saanich, Victoria, Oak Bay etc, had native plant gardens on all city owned property, so to show by example instead of wasting drinking water for grass and non-native plants.

At Saanich Municipal Hall, in their parking lot curb areas, for example, they have a water sprinkler system which keeps the non-native plants growing and uses lots of drinking water for this. There is no solid reason I can think of for them doing this.

But I can't do anything about that.

I can, however, try to get some native plants for my own balcony. I'm not asking for a PDF, I'm asking for physical plants.

Your local Free Little Library could be a place to put some in a small open container with a label on it, that could help.

Maybe you could share photos of your garden with native plants and share what the names of them are? I think that would help too.

I'm not a plant expert, but if photos are shared along with the locations of where they can be picked up along with labels, then we all can learn to identify native plants. (As maybe garden centres do have these available)

Thank you.