Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger The BC Community Charter provides an Alternative Approval Process for local government to essentially do an end run around taxpayers for projects that appeal to the elected officials but that require some form of consent. It is a sham of the first order and everyone, especially
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Cowichan Conversations: The Brilliance of Regional Politics
Don Maroc Journalists and bloggers spend a lot of time tearing the hide off politicians for doing what seem to be (and often are) stupid things with taxpayers money. Being elected to be in change of the public treasury sometimes seems to cause an instant virtual lobotomy, but then sometimes
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: North Cowichan Council as Christmas Grinches
When you recall the cavalier attitude displayed by the North Cowichan Mayor and Council when it came to the North Cowichan Municipal Hall upgrades and the associated costs it is difficult to accept their tight fisted response to a staff call to condu…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: CVRD Spending Is Out Of Control!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes – Political Blogger
The CVRD spending has shown what happens when happens when our elected officials are allowed to freely spend our tax dollars without meaningful restraint or accountability.
The lack of accounta…
Cowichan Conversations: More Victoria Contaminated Soil Dumped in Cowichan
It is time for all of us to stand up and start screaming, “We aren’t going to take it any more!” Last Tuesday, September 18th, the CVRD was notified of an application to bring 1,450 truck loads of contaminated soil from the Canadian Forces Base in Esquimalt to The Evans
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: CVRD Bylaws Will Not Protect the Shawnigan Watershed! So Bring In A New One!
The CVRD has the authority over land use. Will they draw up a bylaw that protects the Shawnigan Watershed, or not? The Assistand Deputy Minister of Environment Jim Standiford has written what appears to be a form letter to those who inquire South Island Aggregates (SIA) application to dump
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: CT Group Comment on the CVRD’s Ill Fated Eco-Depot Controversy
Joseph (Larry) Gollner-CT Group On 27 June, Warren Jones, the Chief Administrative Officer of the CVRD finally delivered his report on the failure of the CVRD Eco Depot venture. The report largely blamed the failure on public opposition with attention paid to the Citizens Together Group (CT Group) and earlier
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Enough Cowichan Regional Nonsense
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger Larry Woodruff is a Shawnigan Resident with strong feelings and opinions about local governance. He has sent them along to Cowichan Conversations, Cowichan Valley Citizen and the Cowichan News Leader. In two years no one in our political arena of the CVRD or North Cowichan
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: North Cowichan Budgeting Should Be Participatory
Rob Douglas is a Cowichan Valley activist very instrumental in organizing a series of meetings regarding Cooperatives in the Valley. Here is his latest column written for the Cowichan News Leader and reproduced here with his permission. Participatory Democracy has been practiced in many areas throughout the world and was
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The Lawyers Just Love Our CVRD Directors!
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger I’ll betcha that the lawyers just love this litigious CVRD Board. Now they are suing Fisher Road Recycling for allowing commercial packers to bring in recyclables and compostables which of course contribute to reducing the waste stream. Wasn’t that the CVRD Directors pitch, driving towards Zero Waste?
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: CVRD Sends message to the BC Government.-Keep your contaminated soil out of our watershed.
Shawnigan CVRD Director Bruce Fraser Well that is what this lengthy treatise says, here and there, when you search for it, sort of. So now staff must cobble together a bylaw which should not take them long, and jam it through with the same force that was employed with their
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The CVRD Must Stop Contaminated Waste Being Dumped In Our Watershed! Will They?
Uncovered, unattended & abandoned! Richard Hughes Poitical Blogger Is it possible for this group of CVRD politicians to actually get it right for a change? The community has once again had to organize in efforts to wake this sleepy crew from sleepwalking through yet another debacle. Are they actually trying to
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