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: Building a Strong Canada and a Living Trade Route Canada was built on movement — people, goods, and ideas carried over water, rail, and road. But every route needs care.Dust & Ledger is a plan to build the next generation of trade corridors: cultural, economic, and civic. It’s not about reopening the past — it’s
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Publicly Supported, Not Publicly Owned: Why Murals Are Muralestate By Michelle Loughery Murals aren’t “just paint on a wall.” They’re Muralestate—place-anchored cultural property that holds stories, shapes how people navigate a neighbourhood, and quietly powers local economies. Even when public funds help present them, murals (and the oral-history narratives fixed within them) are not public-domain content. They’re protected artistic +
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For over 30 years, Michelle Loughery has carried the torch of a movement born not in boardrooms, but in the coal-streaked valleys of Michel-Natal, BC. Hers is a legacy built not just with paint, but with the hands of many who came before—immigrant tradespeople, artisans, and blue-collar visionaries who saw the blank walls of this
ARTIST MICHELLE LOUGHERY 