Wendell Potter is a former president of CIGNA, as a corporate propagandist he misled and deceived Americans about Canadian Health Care. He has since turned whistleblower and reveals the Insurance corporations misinformation campaign.RH Read more…
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Cowichan Conversations: 107 BC kids infected with Covid-19 in last month
Originally published by Vancouverite By Salim Jawa Vancouver – Infection rates among school aged children and younger kids are mounting after a relatively low number of cases during the peak of the pandemic. On Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: It’s A Good Time To Quit Site C
Originally published by The Times-Colonist Increasingly dire reports of the instability of the land on which the Site C Dam is being built are deeply troubling. John Horgan blames COVID for the increased costs and Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Back to the Future: 1992 study reveals recreation, ecology, viewscapes trump logging in Municipal Forest Reserve
Almost three decades ago, North Cowichan’s Forest Advisory Committee retained a consultant to review municipal logging on Maple Mountain and to ask people and organizations to fill out a questionnaire on what they value Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Don’t blame COVID-19 for new Site C dam cost overruns and delays, energy experts say
BC Hydro has classified the health of the most expensive public project in B.C. history as ‘red,’ blaming the pandemic for Site C’s deepening woes, but significant problems had emerged well before the virus Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Site C Is Now Priceless!
August 3, 2020 | By Ken Boon On Friday July 31st, the BC Government finally revealed just how bad things are with the Site C dam. Of course you had to Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Guest column: I come not to praise council nor to bury it
Originally published online by the Cowichan Citizen It is time to begin a conversation. North Cowichan council. (Citizen file) By Icel Dobell While people around the globe are trapped in stifling Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Forestry doesn’t pay the bills, folks
Originally published by Focus on Victoria Over the past 10 years, it cost British Columbians $365 million per year, on average, to allow forest companies to log publicly-owned forests. Most of Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: A final message from US Rep. John Lewis
“While my time here has now come to an end, I want you to know that in the last days and hours of my life you inspired me. You filled me with hope about Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: People are getting their racist and confederate tattoos removed. Today I’m not that guy
BILLY WHITE WORKING AT HIS SHOP, ROSE TATTOO, IN ZANESVILLE, OHIO. (PHOTO BY LOCK 10 PHOTOGRAPHY, COURTESY OF BILLY WHITE) In the last few months, tattoo artists, laser removal specialists, and anti-hate speech advocates Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Hang On Ruthie, Hang On-A Tribute To Ruth Ginsburg
Ginsburg Says Her Cancer Has Returned, but She’s ‘Fully Able’ to Remain on Court The announcement touches off speculation about the possibility of a court opening as both parties seek to make the Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Where will everyone go?
ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, with support from the Pulitzer Center, have for the first time modeled how climate refugees might move across international borders. This is what we found. For Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: BREATHING WHILE BROWN IN THE USA, Racism alive and well in USA and Canada
This is a must read. You can’t make this shit up. My take follows. RH Felipe Nystrom is feeling broken. Originally published on Facebook I had to sit on this for a Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Premier Horgan “Come on, you’re better than that. We need bigger spaces and fewer faces”
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Continue readingCowichan Conversations: North Cowichan enacts 60-day pause in consultations on forest reserve
Fears raised that process still won’t be transparent and accountable Originally published by the Cowichan CitizenBy Robert Barron North Cowichan has enacted 60-day pause in its pubic consultation process Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Public shut out of consultations on Municipal Forest Reserve
Council focus is now on First Nations Citizens of North Cowichan — whatever their position on management of our Municipal Forest Reserve — should be concerned with Mayor Al Siebring’s written statement posted on the Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: “The panic over “cancel culture” is, at its core, a reactionary backlash.
Originally published by the Huffington Post Anecdotes are not data, free speech is not under attack — and elite journalists should find something else to write about. Read More Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Oh yeah, that other pandemic.
Nathan Cullen is with Travis Homberg and Kyle Mortamer. 2d · A tale of two pandemics – one is getting 99% of the public’s attention while the other kills more people. We can address Read more…
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