All Points West from CBC Radio British Columbia

Conceiving the future of food. Today on Food Matters Don Genova reports on how Canadian academics are studying our food systems.

A B.C. based journalist explains why she wants to raise money to help emerging journalists from countries like Haiti and Afghanistan come to Canada to study.

Pinching pennies for the province. As the the BC Legislature resumes today, we'll ask the minister responsible for core review how he plans to help the government save money and what it means for the civil service.

A fire at a rooming house has left seventeen people in Victoria homeless and for many of them, it's not the first time they've been on the street.

Waving our literary flag. Today on Beyond the Bestseller we look at Can Lit from the big names like Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje to what it means today.

Adventuring starts early on Vancouver Island for the Collins Family of Cedar. Rumon Carter goes in search of a new climbing bluff and summer family adventure ideas with 6-year-old Liv and 8-year-old Ben on today's Wild Isle.

The Tour de France is one hundred years old this year. And now students at the University of Victoria can learn all about cycling's most prestigious event in a new course. We speak to instructor Emile Fromet de Rosnay.

We hear about the Canadian connection to the American whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Assessing the damage. The CBC building in Calgary was evacuated this weekend along with the rest of the downtown core. We'll get the view from the ground from radio colleague Russell Bowers.

What's the worst that can happen? That's the question experts are asking themselves at an international conference on disaster management in Toronto this week. We find out what the answer is for Canada.

Cleaning up after the flood. We get an update from the Calgary resident we spoke to on Friday when flood waters had turned her street into a river.

We hear about a new music and arts venue in Victoria called the Copper Owl that's opening doors for independent musicians.

Kelly Nakatsuka speaks to community members at the homecoming of the runners who ran the entire lenght of Vancouver Island in an effort to raise awareness about teen suicide.

The Heliset Hale Marathon came to a completion this morning on the Tsartlip First Nation. CBC reporter Kelly Nakatsuka was there to record the festivities.

We hear from the organisers of two of Vancouver Island's newest music festivals, about the challenges of planning a party in paradise.