Please cast a vote against the takeover. Vote No! John Restakis With three days left in the voting for the proposed merger of Island Savings and First West, many questions remain unanswered for Island Savings members. It remains unclear just exactly how a larger credit union will actually benefit Vancouver
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Cowichan Conversations: First West Credit Union-’Salary Budget Reductions’– Unfair Labour Practices
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The following information was waiting in my inbox this morning. It is of significance to all Island Savings Credit Union members and staff who value job security and the benefits of working with a collective agreement. Although voting has already begun and will continue until November 12th
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Cowichan Local Elections November 15th–Choose Wisely–Heaven sort Hell
Heavenly Election While walking down the street one day a Corrupt Senator was tragically hit by a car and died. His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance. “Welcome to heaven,” says St. Peter. “Before you settle in, it
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Seventeen candidates vying for seven seats on the Cowichan School Board of Trustees
Don Maroc by Don Maroc Seventeen candidates vying for seven seats on the Cowichan School District Board of Trustees took the Quamichan school stage before about 75 residents on Thursday (Oct.30th) evening. There were 17 individual pitches made by the candidates for the audience’s votes. But a majority of the candidates have
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Island Savings Takeover — A Bad Deal-Vote No
Keep Island Savings Local By Don Skerik Regarding the take over of Island Savings by First West. I have attended three of the ISCU membership meetings and at each it seemed there were more staff than members attending. At one meeting on two occasions I was in
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Michelle Staples Seeks Re-election to Duncan City Council
Welcome to staplesforcity.ca!!! This site is designed specifically for the re-election campaign of Michelle Staples, a long term Cowichan Valley resident living in the City of Duncan, a mother and self employed entrepreneur with a long history of bringing people together on projects that are important to the Cowichan Valley. Our hopes for
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Cowichan News Leader Candidate Coverage for Election 2014
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The Cowichan News Leader is doing a good job with their Election 14 Coverage. I have posted their profile feature here. This is worth keeping around as we all try to sort out this amazing series of local elections. ELECTION CANDIDATES Election News Election Candidates
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: CKNW-Former BC Premier calls for a frank discussion of Canadian values
Former BC NDP Premier Ujjal Dosanjh A former BC Premier says Wednesday’s terror attack in Ottawa is another sign of Canada losing the war on values. Ujjal Dosanjh says it is time to forget being politically correct and have a frank discussion about our youth being radicalized. “I think it
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: North Cowichan Candidates Pitch Voters at Maple Bay All Candidates Meeting
Don Maroc-Political Blogger by Don Maroc A couple of hundred people jammed the Maple Bay Firehall for the election season’s first all-candidates meeting Wednesday evening, getting their first look at all 23 candidates competing for North Cowichan’s six municipal council seats and the mayor’s chair. The issue on top of
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Janice Macalister – Running for CVRD Director Area E
Janice Macalister Running for CVRD Director Area E Vote November 15th at the Eagles Hall I have lived in the Cowichan Valley for 22 years, the last five in Sahtlam (Area E). I work part time at Volume One books in Duncan. My previous political experience was as a
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Loren Duncan Seeks Re-Election In Glenora-Sahtlam-Cowichan Station
Loren Duncan Incumbent Candidate – Glenora-Sahtlam-Cowichan Station About myself: It has been a pleasure and honour to serve the constituents these past 15 years as Director. I reside in Sahtlam on a riverside property owned since the mid 1980′s with my spouse Maureen. I pay property
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: I’m Damir Wallener, and I am Running for Mayor of North Cowichan.
Damir Wallener A thriving municipality is built on three pillars – accountability, community, and healthy economic development. Accountability ultimately comes from voters, so they must be given tools to make the job easy. Open door access to the Mayor and to Councillors as well as citizen oversight of budgeting, procurement
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Jon Lefebure Faces John Khoury and Damir Wallener For the Top Prize in North Cowichan
Jon Lefebure The North Cowichan political scene has certainly been sparked up as candidates vie for positions at the council table and the mayor’s chair. Incumbent Mayor Jon Lefebure is seeking re-election but first he will have to garner more votes that the two hard charging challengers Damir Wallener and
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: First West Credit Union Takeover of Island Savings Must Be Stopped. Vote No!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The rapidly growing and expanding First West Credit Union has been gobbling up smaller Credit Unions over the last few years. Now they are poised to take over our Island Savings Credit Union and the members are only hearing the positive side of the story. Bigger is
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Politics, Hockey, Fall Sitting at the BC Legislature and Local Elections-Game on!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger We are moving into autumn, our glorious climate change driven summer is wrapping up even though our confused tomato plants refuse to stop providing even more ripe tomatoes. Last night our beloved Vancouver Canucks warmed our hockey deprived souls with a win in the season opener against
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: North Cowichan Councillor Kate Marsh Is Running Again!
My Vision An aware, involved and resilient community, sharing ideas openly and working collaboratively to make our future strong. Taxes I’d like to briefly address the inaccurate statement that North Cowichan has the highest taxes on Vancouver Island. In truth North Cowichan has the 8th lowest taxes out of 23
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Let’s Keep Island Savings Credit Union Under Local Control
Here is a timely post from Don Skerick about the (insider Board of Directors) proposed amalgamation of Island Savings with First West Credit Union head quartered on Langley, BC. Let’s Keep Island Savings Local I urge all Island Savings Credit Union members to carefully consider their proposed merger vote with
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Why Not a Community Investment Fund for the Cowichan Valley?
Rob Douglas Since 2001 the Cowichan Valley Regional District (CVRD) has operated an in-house economic development body to help the regional economy prosper and grow. With an annual budget exceeding $800,000, Economic Development Cowichan (EDC) now employs several staff and oversees a range of activities to expand the agricultural sector,
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Alexandra Morton-Mystery Film On Quesnel Lake
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Kevin Logan accompanied Alexandra Morton on this trip to investigate what Premier Clark would just as soon you do not see. They have provided a great deal of film and information otherwise not available. The original spin was too quick to say that the water was safe
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