Fairy Creek Report, August 13, 2021 I spent the day yesterday, August13, driving to Fairy Creek on the Elders for Ancient Forests bus. The group is organized around principles of consensus and Read more… The post Fairy Creek Report by Dorothy Field first appeared on richardhughes.ca.
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Cowichan Conversations: Mr Premier You can still turn this Site C boondoggle around.
Dear Premier Horgan, Ms. Lore and Mr. Rankin You’ve probably already seen this article from the most recent Tyee I’m writing to let you know that I have, too. The negligence of you, Premier Read more… The post Mr Premier You can still turn this Site C boondoggle around. first
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The news from site C just gets worse and worse, dangerous-er and dangerous-er
Oh, dear, Premier Horgan, The news from site C just gets worse and worse, dangerous-er and dangerous-er. I’m forwarding these two pieces just so you know we know, as the situation keeps getting murkier and Read more… The post The news from site C just gets worse and worse, dangerous-er
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: BC Government Unrepentant Undertakers For Remaining Old Growth Forests
Dear Mr. Horgan, Ms. James, and Mr. Donaldson, I am aware of the incredible old growth at Fairy Creek. Now I am aware that only 2.7% of the big trees remain. I have received information Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Enormous number of seismic events in the area around the Site C Dam
Dear Mr . Horgan and Ms. James: I assume you’re aware of this article by Ben Parfitt regarding the enormous number of seismic events in the area around the Site C Dam, some of them Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The idea that Site C has gone past the point of no return is a falsehood.
Dear Carole James and Nina, COVID 19 is not the most crucial issue. The idea that Site C has gone past the point of no return is a falsehood. We could and should stop it Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: It’s A Good Time To Quit Site C
Originally published by The Times-Colonist Increasingly dire reports of the instability of the land on which the Site C Dam is being built are deeply troubling. John Horgan blames COVID for the increased costs and Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The Corona Virus is just another excuse to target Palestinians.
When will Canada speak out against Israel’s appalling treatment of Palestinians, both those who are Israeli citizens and those on the West Bank? Corona is just another excuse to target Palestinians. I should not have Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Dear Mr. Horgan and Ms. James, This is the truth you’ve been dodging these last years:
Dear Mr. Horgan and Ms. James, This is the truth you’ve been dodging these last years: Stop, right now, stop pandering to Coastal GasLink and the ongoing Site C fiasco. BC has already poured way Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Premier Horgan-The man camps function in opposition to everything you are calling for in our efforts to curb the pandemic.
Dear Mr. Horgan, I listened this morning while you laid out the province’s next actions to take care of renters, workers, mortgage holders, etc. Thank you. Many of us are relying on that help. You Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Talk is cheap. Talk of reconciliation is cheaper.
Dear Mr. Trudeau, Mr. Horgan, Mr. Singh, and Ms. May, Here’s my question to you. If you own your own home, you farm the land, and rely on your streams for good water, then a Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Premier Horgan- I strongly suggest you go yourself to meet with Gitxsan and Wet’suet’en chiefs.
Dear Mr. Horgan, I strongly suggest you go yourself to meet with Gitxsan and Wet’suet’en chiefs. You are the premier of this province, our highest ranking leader. Sending Scott Fraser after you already sent Nathan Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Call off the RCMP’s invasion of unceded indigenous Wet’suet’en lands.
Dorothy Field is an artist, writer, poet and world traveler. She has attended the Action Camp of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation. Dorothy brings us clarity through her writing and story telling skills. Her insights and Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Lifelong New Democrat Cannot In All Conscience Continue to Support the NDP
Dear John Horgan and Carole James, Just a note should you care to hear from me. I will almost certainly be voting Green in the upcoming federal election next year, unless I see the BC Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Why is it that we non-indigenous value monetary profit over the well being of our kids and their kids unto seven generations?
I recently went to an exhibit of paintings by Australian Aboriginal women at UBC’s Museum of Anthropology. All abstract, several of them luminous as the milky way seen in the sky above the desert where Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Call Me the Queen of Cynicism. Call Me Mad as Hell.
For my birthday cake last October, the words on top were “Stop Harper” and we did, or I thought we did. Now, as Prime Minister Trudeau approves permits for the Site C Dam and the Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: PM Trudeau-Spills happen.They always do. Even the best technology isn’t up to the job.
Dear Mr. Trudeau, I attended the Kinder Morgan open house in Victoria recently, well I tried to. The attendance was so great that as many of us as fit into the room were left Read more…
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