LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We are privileged and grateful to be allowed to work and study on the traditional territories of the Snuneymuxw First Nation of the Coast Salish people and pay respect to their rich cultural heritage and natural environment each day we live and learn on VIU’s campuses.

VALUES

• Our responsibility is foremost to our reader to provide writing that illuminates, engages, and inspires.
  
  
• Our team pledges to work respectfully together across roles and difference to encourage and support one another inside and outside our work on these pages.
  
  
• Our values include respect, truth, honesty, tolerance, and responsiveness to the views of people who are part of any conversation we have.
  
  
• Our focus is on our relationships with each other, our writers, the arts, our national and international community, and our planet.
  
  
• Our goal is to be the greenest publication possible, using recycled paper, vegetable-based inks, and leaving as small an ecological footprint as possible in all our activities.