We pilgrim-types enjoyed a cello-performance beside an ill-fated bulldozer, slowly disappearing into a sink-hole after an ill-fated joy-ride some years back (unrelated to the current freeway-building fiasco). This would actually make a good horror-movie: every time developers approach the bog, they get sucked down into the muck, then emerge as zombies to defend the bog for all time. Bog justice.
The Burns Bog Conservation Society, the Western Canada Wilderness Committee, the David Suzuki Foundation, the Sacred Web Choir, and leaders from Hindu, Jewish, and Unitarian faith communities all spoke/sang for the bog, and we also heard an update from the Stop the Pave campers occupying the roadbed closeby. They've now (as of Monday) been camped out for nine days, and the police/road-builders have so far said they aren't seeking an injunction to remove them. Nobody likes a fuss right before a national election...
I was fortified by the network of influential supporters represented in the crowd, and by the campers who have the strength of spirit to stand up/pitch a tent for what is right.
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