Good morning, It is time for a summer break and I will be offline until September/October. I hope that you will be out in your gardens, down at the beach, lakes and creeks and Read more…
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Cowichan 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: Cash For Access-Chinese Government Funding UBCM-Mayor Al Siebring Weighs in
It gives you pause to realize that a significant number of BC’s locally elected officials are OK with the thinly veiled scheme of influence. It is embarrassing to see how cheap access is and how 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: Is North Cowichan Staff Advising Council To Maintain The Municipal Forest Status Quo?
By Larry Pynn North Cowichan council has assured the public that it’s no longer business-as-usual in the 5,000-hectare Municipal Forest Reserve and that the municipality plans to undertake meaningful public consultations to determine the “highest Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Oops! Solicitor General Mike Farnworth Backs Down After Chief Seymour Calls Out Special Treatment For Government Weed Store
Cowichan Tribes Chief William Seymour called out the government for rigging the licencing process and discriminating against Cowichan Tribes longstanding application to run a Cannabis Dispensary at the Cowichan Commons Farnworth offered a less than Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Insect numbers plummet 75%, putting the world on the edge of ‘ecological Armageddon’
We are running out of time. Our political leaders have sold us out, sold out the environment, ecology and threaten our future survival. Still, all we get from them is talking points and message box Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Horgan’s Conflicted NDP Has Put The Screws To Cowichan Tribes
We have already seen Horgan’s feigned support for First Nations, embracing UNDRIP and then jamming through Site C, fracking and LNG. Now it is Cowichan Tribes turn to face their hypocrisy as they stall Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: North Cowichan could learn from Metro Vancouver’s no-logging policy in its watersheds
By Larry Pynn While North Cowichan debates whether or how much it should log within the 5,000-hectare Municipal Forest Reserve, it could learn some lessons from Metro Vancouver’s management of its own North Shore Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: We need limits to growth study- Revamp North Cowichan’s OCP
I really enjoyed the UBC presentation from three very obvious intelligent individuals who were well versed in the field of forest management from a conservation focus. The presentation was a condensed one, and from some Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Carbon Project: a progressive new vision for the Municipal Forest Reserve
Carbon Project: a progressive new vision for the Municipal Forest Reserve By Larry Pynn Forestry experts from the University of British Columbia painted a new sustainable vision for the 5,000-hectare Municipal Forest Reserve this week Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Public banned from appearing before North Cowichan’s Forestry Advisory Committee
Public banned from appearing before North Cowichan’s Forestry Advisory Committee By Larry Pynn The future of North Cowichan’s 5,000-hectare Municipal Forest Reserve is at stake as the community considers either a business-as-usual approach — yet Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Denmark’s 41 year old Social Democrat Mette Fredericksen elected to lead new government
Encouraging signs that globally voters are once again supporting Left Centre party’s and rejecting the hard-assed hard-headed right-wing politicians. And that is not all. We are seeing a pronounced gender shift. Voters are supporting Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Jon Stewart Calls Out Congress For Slashing Budget To Assist Responder Victims-VIDEO
Longtime host of the Daily Show, Jon Stewart delivers the truth to an out of touch Congress. His messaging is dead on the money. Perhaps we could bring him to Canada to speak to our 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…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Sean Holman Calls On Canadian Media To Step And Report On Climate Change
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…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: SNC-Lavalin to stand trial on corruption charges, Quebec judge rules
Consider how much easier it would have been for PM Justin Trudeau to have backed off and listened to former Attorney General Judy Wilson Raybould. The Liberals continue to court their own miseries on Read more…
Continue readingCowichan 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…
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