Don Maroc – Cowichan Conversations Blogger While late Christmas shoppers slipped into panic mode on December 22, a development-at-any-cost foursome on the Duncan City council ramrodded through fourth reading of…
Don Maroc In November, with the council ready to okay 4th and final reading of a rezoning to allow Edmonton-California developer Vlado Brcic to proceed with the purchase of the…
Don Maroc – Cowichan Conversations Six weeks of trying to keep warm by a small propane fire. Six weeks of carrying picket signs, of waving at horn-blowing motorists, explaining to…
Don Maroc by Don Maroc Last Wednesday, at the Cowichan Community Centre, Isobel Mackenzie, newly appointed Seniors Advocate for B.C., spent two hours listening to the concerns of about 50…
Don Maroc December 3rd, 7 p.m., second floor of the Ingram Street Cowichan Valley Regional District offices, the Board of Directors meeting room, all seats for the public are filled,…
Don Maroc Maybe it is the product of the incredible crisp autumn air, the brilliant azure blue sky, and the warm rays of the November sun that brought clarity to…
Don Maroc – Cowichan Conversations “This is democracy in action,” said Al Siebring, candidate for the North Cowichan council, looking out over some 400 citizens assembled in the Chemainus Secondary…
Don Maroc by Don Maroc Seventeen candidates vying for seven seats on the Cowichan School District Board of Trustees took the Quamichan school stage before about 75 residents on Thursday…
Don Maroc-Political Blogger by Don Maroc A couple of hundred people jammed the Maple Bay Firehall for the election season’s first all-candidates meeting Wednesday evening, getting their first look at…
Don Maroc-Political Blogger At the Cowichan Valley Regional District (CVRD) board meeting June 11, temporary Chief Administrator (CAO) Frank Raimondo stopped the proceedings with a suggestion that the issue about…
Don Maroc-Political Blogger The voting is not quite over but the decision is made. By a near unanimous agreement, after a last minute plea from a baby owl, North Cowichan…
Don Maroc-Political Blogger With a majority of the North Cowichan Council determined to make a final decision on the use of Echo Heights’ 52-acre forest, Mayor Jon Lefebure has come…
Don Maroc-Political Blogger The Victoria Times Colonist gleefully announced, “Nanaimo’s new medical marijuana facility shipped the first package of its product last week.” The Tilray plant, located in the Duke…
By Don Maroc With the public seating area of the North Cowichan Municipal council chambers filled with Chemainus residents wanting to leave the fifty- plus acres of Echo Heights forest…
An Addendum to A Public Letter to John Horgan, MLA, Next Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition Don Maroc You’re right John. the original letter was loaded with enough responsibilities…
Don Maroc North Cowichan Councillor Jennifer Woike is suddenly flush with creative ideas meant to save money for municipal taxpayers. First she wants to amalgamate North Cowichan and Duncan as…
Don Maroc – Cowichan Conversations Contributor NC Councillor Woike wants amalgamation with Duncan and to do away with the CVRD North Cowichan Councillor Jennifer Woike is suddenly flush with creative…
Don Maroc-Cowichan Conversations Contributor Act one of the Discovery Elementary school drama of misguided, overzealous parents disrupting classroom decorum and taking advantage of school district authorities’ well-meaning efforts at accommodation…
Don Maroc – Cowichan Conversations Contributor The tickets you receive from the City of Duncan commissionaires remain the same but, according to Karen Burley, Director of Corporate Services, it will…
Don Maroc-Cowichan Conversations Contributor With rumblings of discontent at over-large salaries growing around the board table, a $200,000-a-year man sent down the road carrying a bag of gold, and an…
