Many readers will recall Sean Holman’s BC based log ‘Public Eye Online.’ His commitment to journalism reporting all the news, and digging to get it is well known in media circles. His work is of Read more…
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Cowichan Conversations: Like Christy Clark’s B.C. Liberals, Horgan’s NDP failing to protect caribou
The differences between Christy Clark’s and John Horgan’s provincial governments can be written on the head of a match. Why is the NDP MLA’s putting up with betrayal after betrayal? Why does the BC Greens Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The Smart Guys Got Us To This!
OK, now let’s see. Trudeau bought the Kinder Morgan pipeline and Horgan has immersed us in unneeded and unwanted fracking operations and LNG fantasies that will all blow up in our faces. NATIONALOBSERVER.COM Bank Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Fortis Gas Propose a BIO-GAS Plant In Rural Cobble Hill
BIOGAS INFORMATION MEETING Learn about the proposed on-farm biogas plant at 675 La Fortune Road. This plant will convert dairy manure and food waste into renewable natural gas, water and valuable nutrients for the local Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: BC NDP Delivering BC Liberal’s Agenda On Education
Most of the improvements implemented since the BC NDP were elected resulted from Supreme Court rulings directing the government on class composition and size. Most of the improvements in BC Education resulted from Supreme Court Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Canuck Owners Abuse Temporary Farm Workers Rights Again- Fined and Ordered To Pay
This Harrison Mooney story carried in the Vancouver Province should embarrass the Vancouver Canuck owners into treating their workers honestly and without abuse. Canucks owners ordered to pay over $130,000 to temporary foreign workers. The Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Sonia Furstenau: The Island’s old growth is under attack
Falling-boundary tape in one of the seven old-growth cutblocks that were proposed by B.C. Timber Sales near Juan de Fuca Provincial Park. Photograph By TJ WATT By Sonia Furstenau BC Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The people and the resources of BC have been fooled again.
Don Maroc The people and the resources of BC have been fooled again. BC was born with the most lush and extensive Temperate Rainforest in the world. Through our own terrible management, today Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The BCNDP Blinked Over Logging Port Renfrew Old Growth. Plans Cancelled For Now.
The old growth forests near Port Renfrew have been spared from the axe for now. The ingredients in the dispute were potentially explosive with broadly based opposition including the BC Green Party, First Nations-Pacheedaht territory, Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Port Renfrew Chamber Decries Horgan’s Plan To Log Old Growth Near Jan De Fuca Plan To Log Old Growth
This is in Premier John Horgan’s constituency. The opposition is widespread, and now the Port Renfrew Chamber of Commerce is at odds with Horgan over plan to log old growth. Ironically although the premier Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: “British Columbia remains a low-wage province, and precarious work is on the rise.
Labour Code changes help restore fairness and balance April 30, 2019 | News Release Proposed revisions to the BC Labour Code will help restore much-needed fairness at unionized worksites across the province. “British Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: B.C. landowners not being told property could go to First Nation
This is a fascinating development that could/should square the circle of wrong doing by our governments in dealing with First Nations. Justice is long overdue. RH GLORIA GALLOWAY PARLIAMENTARY REPORTER PUBLISHED APRIL 30, 2019 Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: What drives The BC NDP’s Corporate Friendly Alliance With LNG Fracking?
It is confounding to watch the BC NDP frothing over hoped for financial windfalls from LNG fracking operations in a world drenched in oversupply and dropping prices. The risks have been understated and replaced Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Cowichan Tribes could take land and resource control back from Ottawa
Independent Blogger This is an encouraging development and one that is long overdue. The Cowichan Tribes members will vote in September to decide whether they want to be in an enhanced position to Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Vaughn Palmer: NDP gets Green scorn, Liberals’ props for getting LNG to a finish line
It is a sad day when the BCNDP embrace such destructive projects as LNG Canada to the detriment of our environment, economy and political independence free from the muscle of foreign corporations. Who suspected that Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Raising the Cowichan Weir is something that needs to happen
Originally posted on Cowichan Valley Now By Kyle Christensen, staff Friday, Apr. 5th, 2019 As we head toward another drought season, the provincial government understands the need to raise the Cowichan Weir. Just last Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: BCNDP Accelerates Sell Out To Corporate LNG-Only The BC Greens Opposed
If any question of whether or not the Horgan BC NDP government is using our money to accelerate climate change, this makes it crystal clear. Wilkinson-Horgan ‘Brothers in LNG’ It appears that the Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: ‘Just asking for a safe future’: Thousands of B.C. students protest political inaction on climate change
Students are hitting the streets on a global scale demanding that the ‘adults’ wake up and stand up for the our climate and the coming generations. Many no doubt were inspired by Greta Thunberg, Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Rusland Opposes Cowichan Estuary Rezoning
I urge the CVRD board not to approve a rezoning application by the Cowichan Bay Terminal. The CVRD now has a unique, priceless chance to help start reversing decades of environmental damage in the bay Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Cowichan Conversations Signing Off For Now
I will be taking a break and will consider a return with a new format in the new year. We have covered a lot of ground over the years and hope to return next year Read more…
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