For immediate release January 27, 2020 Sonia Furstenau announces candidacy for B.C. Greens leader VICTORIA, BC – Sonia Furstenau, MLA for Cowichan Valley, announced that she is running to be the next leader Read more…
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Cowichan Conversations: Leaked BCTF memo details possible path toward provincewide teachers’ strike
The memo may be a glimpse into what may lay ahead for B.C.’s schools if mediator David Schaub withdraws from the dispute. Teri Mooring, president B.C. Teachers Federation. / PNG By Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: First test of UNDRIP Act and BC Premier Horgan fails-Miserably
BC Premier John Horgan was blanketed last December at the AFN Assembly, lauded for Bill 41, which give legal effect to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Photo from AFN Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The Alliance of Compliance
In BC we are being governed by an alliance of compliance. The corporate agenda of largely foreign control is driving the hostile colonial-style attack. Our BC NDP political representatives are obediently advancing the Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Invasion: In an Era of Reconciliation, Indigenous Land is Being Taken at Gunpoint (2019)
The treatment of Wet’suwet’en Nation is driven by an Invasion: In an Era of Reconciliation, Indigenous Land is Being Taken at Gunpoint (2019)approach embraced and advanced by the BC Liberals, BC NDP and tolerated by Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Maintain Your Rage-Austraila Is Ground Zero
Austraila is ‘Ground Zero’ in the rage worthy reality that is the ‘Climate Crisis’ of our lives. British Columbia, like Austraila, could also explode into a hell on earth scenario if we continue with the Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: What to Read When the World is On Fire
What to Read When the World is On Fire The new wave of climate change writing BY ARNO KOPECKY ILLUSTRATION BY MARIA NGUYEN Updated 11:23, Sep. 24, 2019 | Published 11:43, Sep. 23, 2019 Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: ‘NO FUTURE, NO CHILDREN’ UNTIL GOVERNMENTS ADDRESS CLIMATE CRISIS, CANADIAN YOUTH DECLARE
Climate Strike Canada/Facebook A group of more than 450 youth, most of them Canadian, are declaring they won’t have children until they see the federal government taking sufficient action on the climate crisis. Climate Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: ‘What happened to The Sun?’ asks a staffer’s widely circulated internal email.
Snapshot of a Postmedia staffer’s email to Sun and Province editor-in-chief Harold Munro circulated widely among colleagues at the newspaper. David Beers 13 Sep 2019 | TheTyee.ca David Beers founded The Tyee Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: How the Green Party Came to Support Dumping Raw Sewage into the Ocean.
Doing Politics Differently? By Mark Christopher Warrior In 2012 the “Harper Government” announced it was prepared to fund one third of the cost of building Victoria’s first sewage plant and so end Greater Victoria’s practice Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Woodfibre LNG has just lost its biggest prospective customer
Hi Richard — What a difference a week makes! Last Friday we were feeling a bit down in the dumps. Why? Because the Federal Government announced that they were exempting Woodfibre LNG Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Shawnigan Lake residents may take legal direction to protect their property values from the ‘Dirty Dirt’ fiasco
Shawnigan Lake residents may take a new legal direction to protect their property values from sadly plummeting if chemical pollution further fouls Shawnigan Lake. During a lively town-hall meeting Aug. 8 at the Shawinigan Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: North Cowichan Mayor Al Siebring Responds To Larry Pynn, and Peter Rusland
Hi Peter. Thanks for your note. NC Mayor Al Siebring To the specifics of Mr. Pynn’s accusations in the Times Colonist OpEd, I wrote and submitted a response to the TC late Friday. Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Corporate Friendly Premier Horgan Oversees The Flip Flop Sellout At Shawnigan
Today’s political soup offers little in the way of social or environmental sustenance. The Horgan government’s Environment minister George Heyman delivered the decision selling out the citizens of Shawnigan Lake dependent on the watershed and Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Forty Nine Cowichan groups urge local governments to declare climate emergency
Local governments are told they are “where the rubber hits the road” when it comes to doing anything Originally published y the Cowichan Citizen LEXI BAINAS Jul. 5, 2019 7:00 a.m. A group Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Horgan’s Government OKs contaminated soil at Shawnigan to remain
Will Sonia Furstenau and her fellow Green MLA’s Adam Olsen and leader Andrew Weaver withdraw support of the BC NDP government over this slap in the face to those residents of Shawnigan who depend on Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Doctor Shortage Bad News, Especially For Seniors
As much as we like to believe that we have wonderful health care we often do not. In a recent report on health care, Canada was rated as 30th amongst developed countries. http://thepatientfactor.com/…/world-health-organizations-r…/ The Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Weed is legal in Canada but it is almost impossible to find in approved outlets
Weed is legal in Canada but it is almost impossible to find, especially seeds. They are offered, legally, sort of. The kick in the ass is that Mr. Prime Minister Trudeau and Mr. Premier Horgan Read more…
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