#waterfowl by Sarah Fowler
Last Updated: June 29, 2026
The Green Antler's waterfowl podcast started as a way to document my journey. Now it's recording episodes for its 5th season.We sometimes have guest's, read poems or bits from books we like, go over policy choices, ask questions and sometimes just listen for the call of the trumpeter swans.Thanks for your time and attention on this wild 😜 ride. Listen to some of the first few
give of yourself
democracy is participation and your input is valuable.
patriotic purchase
FCM convenes to ask what Buy Canadian policy for local procurement means to municipalities?
the longest episode yet
today we feature 3 webinars. the first talked about environmental sacrifice zones with Dr Laurence Buteh-Roch called " I wish these were trees." secondly we listen to housing corporations and rural solutions "expanding access presented by the AVICC. " and last up understanding EDI reversals with the JEDDI seminar, which stands for Justice Equity Diversity Decolonization and Inclusion.
continuity
Insurance, plans and contacting a business practitioner who can help.
race to the bottom
information about the SPF fellow and the application to be considered as a CBSR of technical influence social impact procurement.
Inequity for diabetes patients across Canada
thanks to UBCM group benefits for this informative talk.
judicial review
with Mayor Tobias of view royal
UBC and DIBS
how much is to much? carbon budget math & beware of deadends; climate increments that don't work towards developing new industries.
e-bikes, treaties and derelict vessels
3 webinars in one morning
forestry
Townhall
anti racism
equity and inclusion webinar
inclusive policy
this webinar was recorded on February 3, 2026
equity
a FCM webinar
inclusive and reciprocal
part 2 from the webinar recorded on February 2 2026 thanks for your time.
engagement workshop part 1
climate adaptation with the center for dialogue and green municipal fund.
veni, vidi, vici; I came, I saw, I concured.
from risk measurement to climate budget we want a clear line of sight to prevent emergency 🦺 while being prepared for the severity of potential impacts
why the YMCA?
this webinar is a FCM presentation from January 28, 2026 and features panelists from Calgary, Moncton and Ontario.
side of your desk
part 2 of advocacy against child abuse.
we are not looking away
advocate against the abuse of children
a big day with the hat-Trick of webinars
1.BCEDA - understanding & accessing support business support program. 2 .Oceans Protection Plan- virtual initiative spotlight 3. Cowichan Tribes Case Commentary with AVICC.
Justin Sovoie
behavioral insight, BC Sauder school and the Big light touch deep work that explores mis- information, social science and public service.
Complex systems & trust
burnout & Behavioral insights
Youth
climate corp and your community!
run like a girl with Catherine McKenna
thanks to climate caucus and Ms McKenna for this episode.
the road 🛣️ to everywhere else. ( stuck in gold, unable to get home)
CBC radio 📻 with Jason DeSouza talking about the road to the village of tahsis and how it's now open to alternate traffic (🚦 one lane )according to the alertable app.
Guy Felicella's Hustle and the power of connection
with talk about drug use, harm reduction community safety 🛟 thanks for sharing, subscribing and listening 🎧
the provincial Infrastructure Projects Act
🎊 questions ⁉️ & answers 🕛
thanks to everyone who has subscribed to the waterfowl podcast and has been listening over this media infrastructure landscape. or maybe 💭 it could be a seascape?🤔 thoughts...
food for emergencies
how many litres of water do you need to have on hand in case of emergency? how long does it keep? when should your supplies be restocked? find out these things and more!
Pacific marine
dialogue forum of 🪸 ocean 🌊 protections plan 🍁 fall 🍂 2005
climate equity
with municipal leadership and Tamarack community tools.
social policy resolutions
centre for civic governance presents a discussion with some of my favorite people, around progressive provincial advocacy.
double time
interdisciplinary and trails convergence
A 📖 book report written by Elizabeth May called Paradise 🏆 won
This waterfowl podcast episode is part of the book report series and was also a Facebook live recorded in May 2024 and the green antler's 🎙 studio.
🏕Day 1 virtual🧱 climate 🌏 summit
🏛Recording in the⛰️ green antler's waterfowl 🎙 studio for🏗 Vancouver Island 🏖and Coastal Communities🛝 climate leadership plan. 👌
critical node
when we are placed based no one is disposable
POLIS water
6th annual roundup of water research
leadership studies
essential certificate at SFU
Ha'00m
knowledge sharing celebration 2025
the third installment
legislative review of the local government act.
legislative review part 2
this episode was recorded in February 2025 and the joint area association legislative reform discussion & advocacy session hosted by the AVICC
a tale of leg. reform
part one of the joint legislation review hosted by AVICC president Ben an featuring Don Lidstone
climate & hope
mayor Blackwell of Clearwater hosts a panel from Berkley to London and Princeton, thanks to climate caucus and Columbus institute.
food systems management
thanks to thom for the presentation to Strathcona food security meeting
advisory & recovery
OPP ( 🌊 0cean🪸 protection plan)South coast framework
sustain social
lifecycle of active culture
Mayor Davis on the radio
Speaking to Gregor Craigie with CBC's on the island.
district heat in small towns
FCM'S green municipal fund and the way waste heat can be better used to keep folks farm.
finance climate initiatives
FCM's green municipal fund and Peterborough's natural asset management and climate capital
an unanswered question ocean 🌊 protection plan pacific
this is our sixth season producing 😉 the green antler 🫎 #waterfowl podcast and we hope to share our love of learning with all our listeners. Thanks for your valuable time, it's worth an 🌊 to us.🪸
cross border network
with Chris Brown
youth mental
well being promoted by local government
low carbon energy & mines innovation & lifestyle.
recording audio at the green antler 🫎 home studio of September 9 2024 BCLC or Municipal climate leaders council and community energy association or CEA.
Community gaming grants help deliver services in a variety of ways 😀
Featuring Ryan 🎨 Painter. Thank you to all of you who came out to our Community Gaming Grant Webinar today. It was great to see so many people join us today and have such good questions following the presentation.
😎 101 and emergency management 😭making order out of chaos🌪proactive & prepared.🌡
Two webinars 🧭for the price of one. 🗺don't forget your map you can be a ♻️recycle hero.🧱intersectional disadvantage, power imbalance & cultural safety.🏩self- finance 🎢 response and recovery. 🏗 royal assent this fall.🌋resonablkle efforts 👌 and policy reputations.
🏗Building economic🏛 resiliency🏞 and recovery🏥UBCM Convention 👯♀️2023 🎟balancing act 🎬
This session was recorded on Monday , September 18, from 10:30- 11-30 in ballroom C, Waterfront Hotel Vancouver BC. Special thanks to Dale Wheeldon, Mayor Maureen Pinkney, Mayor Spencer Coyne, Anthony Haddad, Jessie Olson, Barclay Pitkethly, Darrel McKamey & Jikke Gyorki.
climate impacts
circle of remote land is medicine and stories of how to share power.
🌡People /🪂 freight🤑/food🚀 /systems🎪equity/🗺 safety/ 🧭watershed 😇
🤩Day 2 on 😎the Vancouver🤲 Island coastal🦻 communities 🦾Climate leaders🍄 plan virtual 🦿summit recorded🫀 on May 13th, 🧠 2024🫠
🥩Strathcona🍟 regional 🍕district🍓 poverty🥑 study🫘
🍑This is the 🍇waterfowl podcasts 229🌶 episode 👏 over 5 seasons. 🙌 still learning 🧆every day as this 🍳recording had me taking 📝 notes that include the phrases "women lead🍞 households"🥓 and "room for🍜 a rider. " The second one refers to a🦪 transportation initiative🍭 on a gulf island 🏝 that is like 👍 thumbing a ride but in reverse whereby🎂 the driver hands a 🪞 mirror doodad🥠 that let's pedestrians 🍤know there is room 🍹on board. 🍻Aren't small towns in rural BC with 🫖an island life vibe🍽 friendly🧊 and creative? 🍯
one road in
food costs learning
🚲Ebikes, 🛴rebates 🛹& who 🛼wants🏍 some? 🛵
The 🎪hub and🚖 spoke are 🚝nothing without each other. 🚔Thanks to Carly at CEA ⛽️for the 🎢invite, 🛣the panel 🙌 speaking to e-bikes and🛑 rebates, free riders🚦 and marginal 🚏active transportation 🛞users, the ones with 🚨questions about 🚒infrastructure and uncertainty 🦽and all the 🦼dedicated green 🛺antler's waterfowl 🎡podcast listeners. 👌 you are the 🚎best & I appreciate 🚜it all!
#AVICC2024 was us celebrating the 75th anniversary with Victoria's #timebenders at the banquet.
This episode was recorded at the victoria convention centre for the Association of Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities convention in April 2024. It features the housing and inclusive governance panels. Thanks for listening 🎶 and sharing.🙏
Zoning and planing to get bigger from Edmonton is extraordinary 👌
This climate caucus electeds webinar is recorded at thd green antler's waterfowl podcast desk on April 4th, 2024.
🦺This waterfowl podcast episode was recorded on 🥼international women's day at the green antler 🧤
⛑️Description: 🥿Join us on 🎓International Women's Day, 💄as we bring together a 🪖small group of leaders in local📿 government 💍to discuss🧢 their experience in gender inclusion.🪮
Climate 🌍caucus 📢national call 📞 with 📯Vancouver 🪭economic⛑ commission's 🎙George & Vanessa🤔
Electeds Call - The Intersectionality Between Climate Change and Local Economic Development
Tiny and proud ten years 💪 and going strong! Thank you, climate caucus participants, Adrienne & Pam
Tinyhomebuildersassosciaton@gmail.com 🏡tinyhousecoursevi@gmail.com🏕better citizen solutions kamloopsgoodnews.ca
🕔Clean air, Clear 💧water 🚿 recorded at the green antler in tahsis. 🌏
The 🏟partners we make on ⛰️the path to improvements 🏗and the social determinants of🏨 health. Thanks 🎡for listening 🎶 to the waterfowl podcast, season 5, from Feb 28th, 2024
Bringing🚉 Resilience into 🎪Disaster Risk Reduction on💈 BC 🦼#budgetDAY2024 #bcpoli🛴
🏨 Description: 🦽This is the second Lunch🍽 and Learn 🗽of the Resilience Peer Network facilitated🍯 by Community Energy Association.🌋 Bring your lunch🫙 and listen as 🌎Amanda Broad from the Ministry🥛 of Emergency 🏕Management and Climate Readiness at the Province 🍞of BC speaks🍱 about🧭 bringing resilience🏗 into disaster risk reduction and 🍲the modernization of the Emergency 🏥and Disaster Management Act. 🏪Everyone welcome. 🏩
🍄Love🍇 food🍌for the first hour🍉
Hate 🗑 waste. Be a 🐞fly on the wall 🧱 at the🦟 February 2024 🪰Strathcona food hub meeting. 😋
Rshiny and the 🐟nootka sound watershed society work 🦑
Ecofish 🔧 tool, tidbits, 🦀web application data sets, age based recovery 👍 range 🕸and disturbance.
Building ❤️ together, was recorded in tahsis council chambers👏
Ahead of a standing committee on the code of conduct enforcement meeting. Non-profit housing partnerships, like CMHC, FCM, Housing Accelerator fund, fee waiving, and faith-based holdings. Looking back to the 1970-80's and the capital regional housing corporations to fund and finance housing in BC.
Health gathering in Nanaimo about planetary health
Climate impacts and study since our ecosystem allows our existence. Thanks for the snap of the panel, credit to Hillary Eastmure.
🥫MIABC🍿 reasonable🍝 best🍭 effort🍢 and 🍱good 🍩faith. 👍
🌶Apology 🎬 act, 🧄duty of and🧅 occupation liability. 🥬Which way is the bench going to go?🥯 is there a 🥚duty of care is🧇 it clearly marked 🍲does it say no diving 🫕or is the D missing🧆 on the sign is this a🧀 rugged area are there targets 🥞like paths for 🌮trees to fall 🍳down on is there a Best 🌭effort and good faith so 🍖Wildlife danger trees and assessments being 🍟done is it reasonable to make a sign in the 🍈forest that says falling limbs in 🍓dead from🍄 dead trees 🫓🫓awareness of Hazards 🫘be aware of invitations the 🍒apology Act 🌽doesn't make you liable 🫛undertake employee 🍞training risky 🥔Behavior assumptions that instinct of fairness signs🫐 Human Rights 🥭march February 8th and 🍇Associate member programs on 🍌March 5th thank you.
🌏Biodiversity &⏲️ ecosystem 🏨health framework with🫘 Parliamentary Secretary🗽 MLA Russell 🍱
Draft 🥜report still 🫛seeking input🛖 until Jan 31st. This green antler's 🍉waterfowl🏚 podcast was 🫖recorded in🍹 tahsis on 🍽January 11, 2024.🧱 It also🫙 includes a 🦪low carbon🍳 resiliency 101 lunch🍞 & learn from CEA.🥚 Two for 🥓one! Thanks for 👂listening. 🎧
❤️Engaging 🌬marginalized👀 community members🙏 in 🛶municipal🙌 climate🌡 plans👍
The 🌧climate🌚 caucus ☂️hosted🌩 this🛟 webinar 🌪featuring ⛵️the 🌌one🇨🇦 and❄️ only🚤 Sharmarke 🏝Dubow. 🌈
🚇Housing ministry webinar overview of bills 44, 45 & 47 for regional districts and island trust.
An overview of the legislative changes and regulations in bills 44, 46 and 47 and how they work together in a regional district planning context key timelines and Reporting requirements. The presentation will be followed by a question and answer.
🌊Marine 🛟safety⛵️ & the🏝 AVICC⚓️ as🌬 a stakeholder🌎
🌨From oceans🌌 protection plan dialogue🌚 forum to transport🌜 Canada 🇨🇦 trickle down.🛶 This 🌡waterfowl podcast🌩 episode is 🛥recorded🌬 by Sarah 🌪Fowler at 🚤the green antler⛴️ on 🌋January 4, 2024, ❄️as interviewed🛳 by pollaria 🌧strategic insights. 🌈 Thanks for your time. ☂️
Home,🐘 home on 🐿the range🐏 where the 🦙deer and the 🫎antelope play🐎
Where 🦓seldom is heard🦝 a 🦫discouraging 🐆word and 🦇the 🐅sky are not 🐐cloudy🦒 all day. 🐫
🚧Barriers🛑 report🚦 presentation🛟 with⚓️ Trudy 🚨and Nadine🚥 hosted by climate 🚏caucus.🛵
Some 💈of the biggest 🎪challenges of our time including 🚂climate change decolonization a toxic drug 🛝Supply racism🌅 homelessness and growing economic inequalities🌄 require strong leadership🏙 acquainted with diverse realities of Canada's 🌁population statistics in this and 🏙other studies point to demographic gaps 🏞between the diversity of the Canadian population 🛖and just who makes it into ⛲️Municipal and Regional government rules🗽 the question of who is also a question of why 🏚as this study documents persistent🕋 inequalities block democracy. ⛩️While the research was ⛪️⛪️concluded in BC and Alberta, it 🏦has ramifications and applications🕌 across the country join 🕍us for critical conversation on the outcomes of this 🛕research this is a meeting space🧱 for electeds only these bi-weekly electives 🏟only calls provide opportunities to connect🏔 with other elected officials🧭 and offer a meeting space for municipal leaders 🏖can raise issues and get practical help from colleagues. 😊 thank you to climate caucus Trudy and Nadine.
❤️ heart & hearth🌕 home, transit & density🏡 the unintended consequences of provincial legislation.
Bill 45 & 44.
🏘Who are 🏪you gonna 📞 call? Text?🚑 Get help to a specific🏢 place on the x, y& z axis?🏨
🦼Webinar on 🛴next 🦽generation🚲 911 GIS🛺 standards. 🚨 presenters from ESRI 🗣Canada will outline🛣 challenges and 🚏opportunities 🏕of preparing, transforming, 🏯validating🛤 and using 🎪geospatial data.🌉 Considerations ☔️when deciding a 🚂path forward on this☄️ component of the NG 911 🎢system. 🛝Also explored 🌪will be a case 🌈study from the 🛞city of Guelph taking🎡 participants from the 🛢basic understanding ⛽️of 911 and 🛟NG 911 Concepts to💺 the specifics on how🪂 GIS data becomes a critical 🚦success factor in the🛸 migration to 🛑NG 911 for local governments in Canada.🚀 Thanks to the staff at #ubcm for hosting this🏗 important discussion🏜 about Community safety.
These🧭 three🌌 streams.🤿 Regional projects 🙏 welcomed at #UBCM funding webinar community
Emergency preparedness fund. 🎰 #ESS portable 🎏air conditioning. Designated site for 🧊cooling centers. 😎 furniture. White boards, ✨️permanent cots and sleeping bags 🚚stored away. Table top and otherwise training 🚇is an eligible expense 🚨Activate and #EOC. 🚧2024 equipment 🚑operations &🚒 disaster reduction. 🚔Long term 🚦structural, tiger🐯 dams and gabion 🧺 baskets. Portable air 🦨scrubbers. Smoke and extreme temperature. Misting🦧 and water bottle refill🍼 station for cooling zones. Shipping 🏗containers and trailers. 🌍CLIMATE ADAPTATION. risk 🗺mapping and planning in🏜 category 1. 🚀THIS SESSION IS recorded🛢 for distribution on 💺the UBCM's youtube page🛰 for public access. ⛵️
🥃Alcohol🥂 & dialogue 🍻with VCH🍺
🧃Healthy 🍹choices and🗺 mapping access 👌 of booze 🍾or harm 🫗reduction 🍸initiatives. 🍷
Cyber 🪡lifestyle and recognition in real life from 🧵my digital footprint 👣protecting shield 🗽AI?
Risks🛟 are not simply 🛶physical. The data we collect, ⏳️use, and ultimately🛰 make🪂 decisions about🚢 is changing or fluid. How is it stored? 🚧What's MFA? I bet you know that in this 🕰circumstance, it refers to🚦 multi factor identification. Like dhen you get a text on your phone 📱to enter in order 🦽to be given virtual access to an account on a platform 📲 or media conglomerate. I got an ⛽️email about Bankier BC 🏦 and 🤔 how they were able to rally and keep pay phone service going🚏 in their community. 🏗
It🪅 is an itterative💧 process🪺. Day one Pacific🌊 dialogue ❄️forums. 🪹
Fall🎣 2023 oceans 🪬protection plan November 1-3, 2023🎮 echo program 😀 underwater noise contamination 🎗and a common🤿 understanding of the problems, ⛳️solutions, 🥊or outcomes.🪆
Big 🍸 bar 🛝 slide. Salmonids, habitats & UNDRIP
"If you're not at the table, you aren't gonna eat"🍽🍴🥄🥢🔪🫗🐳🐋🐬🦭🐠🐡🦈🪸🐚🦑🦐🦞🦀🐙 system of equitable collaboration for us all.
Eby. rural issues
October 20, 2023, watched on YouTube at the green antler's remote homestead.
👩🚒Strategy & 🕵direction with 🦸♀️the RCKN🦹♂️ with Maureen LeBourdais 🗽and Reiko Tagami 🏕
This episode 🛸of the waterfowl ⛴️podcast is a micro session 🕥of the regional 🦽connectivty knowledge☄️ network and was🎟 recorded on October 🌂19th starting at 10 am, 🎯which happened to be 🌧the same day as Shake Out BC! 🪐Exercise Exercise Exercise! 💪 Plan to practice for earthquakes. 🌠Alongside discussion of next🧸 generation 911 readiness 🧭and topics of economic🤑 development and rural communities having🛟 internet acessablity. ⚓️
🥸Entrepreneurs have🤯 spirit. To move forward, we need 😱to work together. small village's 🤡 fun!
Economic development strategy and plan 👌 for village of Tahsis. Thanks to Giles & Paige for hosting this discussion at the senior center. I have noticed that during ⏲️ times 📰 when I record 🏋♀️room tone, the voices 🏇can't be heard over the elevator 🏋music I add as 🤺background🏊 to each episode. This makes me want not to put the 🤹customer looped muzak on this episode so that the 🛀voice shared today can be heard more clearly. 👭Listen to🧑🤝🧑 understand. I am glad we had the 👨👩👧👦opportunity to have such a 🎁 gift for #tahsistalent and dialogue🫂 today Wednesday👣 October 18th, 2023.
United Way British Columbia 👏 has critical food infrastructure grants open now 😳 September 28th.
I recorded this episode on October 5th, 2023. 🎶Listening to people talk about hummingbirds👂 while I run outside on the front deck to pick the 🍇 grape kiwi 🥝 growing up the stairs and on to the roof of the green antler's 🎙 studio.
😎Tamarack Institute 🧗♀️cohort community talks funding opportunities 🙌 prospecting & trust build
Friend-raising. 🤩head, hearts & backbone. Multi-sector 🧑💻approach. Articulate the track 👩🚒record of sucess. The scarcity 🕵mindset and major campaigns. 🧑🔬Involve donors early on and provide quarterly updates. The 🎁 gifts and😘 contributions provided are part of the work being done everyday. ✔️ fundraising is a team sport. 👏 bold communities 😇are mobilized around a shared vision. 5:1 👩🌾ration prospect to support. 👩🏫Partners in the process are crucial to👩🎓 the success. 🙌
🌊Water💧 as a focus area🌎
☔️Drought 🏜 Also, a delegation from island health 🏝focusing on climate & water for 🚰 drinking. 🔥
Nootka Sound Watershed Society
Roger fills us in on the wave project at yuquot and tells us all what a tidbit is. Also, dual beam & #Alone productions. ITV in 🇩🇪 Germany goes 🏕 camping.
🌧Vancouver Island 🌈West 🌠early years☔️ with Fatima🌪and Climate caucus small & rural food secure.
🪐Pre- school, 🌟ages & stages🌡 questions🕰 with service 🌌providers across 🌊the region. ⚡️from children to everything food...🍇🍈🍏🍉🥥🍊🥑🍋🍌🍍🥭🥕🥦🍎🍅🌶🥜🫘🫚🥬🥜🍞🧄🍆🧅🥐🫛🥖🍗🌮🥔🥝🍳🥗🥙🌯🍽🍴🥄🫙🥛🍯🥧🧂🧈🍿🥚🥓🥩🧇🧀🍖🫚🍒🧅🍌🍋🥕🍄comittees & municipally supported community garden, this 😋 episode features the amazing 🫶Arzeena Hamir and myself making a 🍪presentation for climate caucus 🌍about food, 🚣♀️water, 🛀agriculture, and 🧭policy. 🍾
How🪂 heat pumps pay off: 🪵comparing the costs heating and cooling 🚀options across Canada. 🧭
🌏The Canadian climate 🏖institute forthcoming report heat pumps 🛸pay off. Unlocking 🏫lower-cost heating and cooling🛟 in Canada examines the ⚓️costs of heating and 🚦cooling technology in five cities across 🇨🇦 Canada🍁 and explores barriers to heat pump adoption. 😳
🎏Small Town 🎫Sarah & 🏅the #UBCM23 ♟️small talk form. 👄
This 🪆episode was recorded 😳 at the Vancouver convention center on September🎯 19, 2023.
🧨#UBCM23 ⚽️#KEYNOTE 🥅#football🎯Wednesday September 20th.🎉 Vancouver 🎗convention center 🎏
🏐I never🏏 heard 🎈of John Herdman. 🏉I guess 🏒sports are🏈 something I don't give much 🥎attention 🤷 to. He had 🏀me in 😢 tears which 🏑isn't hard🎳 admittedly. 😭 I lead with the ❤️ heart. I do it all for love.🥍 Competent & character. 🎣Doing better, everyday. 🥌
NIPR NDP
all candidates forum mid August
Curious about candidacy #NDP #NIPR
Having submitted prospective candidate papers to the federal NDP and waiting on the vetting and qualifying process. #doorknocking
answers
north Island Powell River asked. I answered.
Net pens 🏟 transitions plan engagement 💧AVICC, DFO & MPO🌊 making a aquaculture sustain longterm🗺
🐳The debate is over. 🐋do atlantic salmon belong in the pacific? The policy choices have been determined.🐟 The federal government has a new minister. What does the science say?!.🦭will the previous decisions get over turned😳 how does it feel to be muzzled? 🐠 do you enjoy being covered in parasites?🐡 is there a technology we can use?🦈 we are able to do better?🐬 what can industry do better in order to keep operating under the current license?🦞 if if ain't 💔 broke don't fix it... what do you mean we can't keep doing things that same way they always have been done?🐙 what can we say to change your mind?🪸 do we share this water?🪼who's territories are they?🐚what does habitat loss end in? 🦐extinction. 🦀 how do we have more than one top priority? 🤔 is this your real background.🦄
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