From: Caelen Cook <caelencook@gmail.com> Date: September 21, 2020 at 12:10:40 PM PDT To: richard_hughes@shaw.ca Subject: Michelle Bell Information and Headshot Hi Richard, I am the Cowichan Valley NDP Youth Rep. and a volunteer for Read more… The post Michelle Bell-Candidate For BCNDP Nomination-Cowichan Valley first appeared on richardhughes.ca.
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Cowichan Conversations: Premier John Horgan Calls For A BC Election October 24th
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Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Exposing War Crimes Should Always Be Legal. Committing And Hiding Them Should Not.
Richard Hughes 18 September at 19:51 Originally published by https://caitlinjohnstone.com CAITLINJOHNSTONE.COM The Kafkaesque extradition trial of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange continues, with each frustrating daymaking it clearer than the day before that Read more… The post Exposing War Crimes Should Always Be Legal. Committing And Hiding Them Should Not.
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Will Premier Horgan Call An Election
Originally published by In-Sights PERSONAL COMMENTARY ON POLITICAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES IN WESTERN CANADA. PREMIER HORGAN BY NORM FARRELL A close observer of BC politics recently asked if I expected John Horgan to call Read more… The post Will Premier Horgan Call An Election first appeared on richardhughes.ca.
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: BC Government ignores science in their old growth announcement?
Press release from Conservation North September 14th, 2020 Prince George, BC – Northern BCers are unimpressed by the government’s announcement on old growth forests last week. The province announced nine general locations where they will Read more… The post BC Government ignores science in their old growth announcement? first appeared
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Continue readingCowichan Conversations: North Cowichan Internal Email Raises Fears of Talk-and-Log Policy
Originally published by sixmountains.ca An internal email from North Cowichan’s municipal forester is fuelling concerns that a public consultation process into an interim management plan for the Municipal Forest Reserve is actually a talk-and-log show, Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Nazi Hippies: When the New Age and Far Right Overlap
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Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Judicial review of North Cowichan’s decision on Motorsport expansion underway Municipality denied Motorsport Circuit a development permit last year
Municipality denied Motorsport Circuit a development permit last year Robert Barron Judicial review is underway of North Cowichan’s decision to deny a development permit to the VIMC. (File photo) A judicial review Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Why Is Big Oil Funding Police in Canada?
Image adapted from a photo by Jason Hargrove on Wikimedia THE TROUBLING FINANCIAL CONNECTIONS BETWEEN BIG OIL AND POLICE Dylan Penner 2 weeks ago Big Oil is financing police foundations in Canada to the Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: North Cowichan’s Four Public Engagements. Is It A Plot?
Get ready. Coming our way, and underway already, beginning with the Official Community Plan (OCP) are four critically important public consultation processes that will determine, lock down, basically carve in stone the Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Municipal documents expose shameful plan to keep citizens in the dark on public consultation on forest reserve
Freedom-of-information documents reveal that the Municipality of North Cowichan deliberately withheld important information on reasons for a 60-day pause in public consultation on the future of the Municipal Forest Reserve. Documents obtained by sixmountains.ca Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The Strike At CKLG-You Don’t Get Me I’m Part Of the Union
I had been working at CFUN in the News department and grew dissatisfied with the working conditions and lack of basic worker rights. Along with staff at CKLG we began organizing for union representation. Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: “Cher Papa” Pete Cadorette Celebrates His 100th Birthday
Originally published by the Cowichan Valley Citizen Pete Cadorette, right, celebrated his 100th birthday on Sept. 5 in Shawnigan Lake. Pictured with Mr. Cadorette, also known affectionately as Cher Papa, is great-great grandson Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Fifty years ago Maggie and I were married at Hyacinth Bay on Quadra Island, BC.
Covid 19 shut the door on what was planned to be a big 50th wedding celebration with relatives and friends. Unfortunate delay for sure, but we will have a celebration when it is safe Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: This is a disgrace. Halt logging old growth.
Originally published on Facebook Here are photos captured earlier this month from the Granite (Renfrew) Creek watershed, just over the ridge to the east of Fairy Creek in Pacheedaht territory. Teal-Jones was – Read more…
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: What’s good for the goose (students) is not good for the gander (politicians)
All indications are B.C. politicians will continue to avoid the B.C. Legislature by conducting meetings remotely, while also sending children and teachers into classrooms with no physical distancing among cohorts Rob Fleming, Minister Read more…
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