Corky Evans: How You can help save the ALR in 5 min
This call from Corky to help save our farmland is one to be heeded. Originally posted in the Commonsense Canadian it is followed by a Damien Gillis piece with Harold…
agriculture
Rachel Notley admits to personally starting Fort McMurray wildfire
EDMONTON – After days of dodging important questions from Rebel Media and uncles’ facebook pages alike, Alberta premier Rachel Notley came clean today and admitted that she intentionally created…
Where’s the beef? Alberta’s cattle industry is only getting what it ordered from Earls
PHOTOS: Where’s the beef? Not in Alberta, if this province’s beef industry can do anything about it. One thing this story has nothing to do with is small-time ranchers like…
Watercliff Farm-Gabriola Island–Lisa Butler Heath
Watercliff Farm#1 Seed Saving- Women Who Farm from Films For Action on Vimeo.
Rob Douglas–Municipal Politics in the Cowichan Region: Year in Review
Rob Douglas Last Fall you elected me to North Cowichan Council from a ballot that featured a multitude of strong candidates. I was overwhelmed by your support in granting me…
New column day
Here, on the decision-based evidence-making behind the Sask Party's selloff of Crown land and planned gutting of publicly-operated liquor stores.For further reading...- The Sask Party's announcement of a program to…
On uncosted liabilities
So even from the sketchy details made public so far, and even leaving aside the more general harm done by limiting government action and entrenching corporate monopolies, the Trans-Pacific Partnership…
Butch the Rooster-Watch Out for Him During this Election Period. An Election Classic!
Butch the RoosterSarah was in the fertilized egg business. She had several hundred young pullets and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs. She kept records and any rooster not…
11 Weeks of Daily Harper Protests
The Harper Re-election Disaster Bus Totalitarianism: daily, for 11 weeks! Get used to this. People hate Harper and his Conservatives. We will see through his weak attempt to wedge oppositions…
“The Changes Will Be Dramatic” Says Farmer & Climate Scientist
As both a farmer and a climate scientist, Jennifer is deeply concerned about the challenges coming for farmers. She admires their resourcefulness, but expects the changes will be dramatic. *…
It’s A Beautiful Day In The Neigbourhood
Richard HughesPolitical Blogger So many of us check our email while still half asleep and the coffee is being made, I am no different in that regard. It can be…
Opinion: Will future of food be an election plank?
This piece comes from the Edmonton Journal and applies to all of Western Canada, very much including our Cowichan Valley. We can look back and see significant increases in our…
A New Documentary Looking Into Food Production
Voices of Transition is a new documentary film with limited release but you can buy it online now! The film examines how we grow our food and ideas around how…
West Coast Environmental Law Supports Community Action Regarding Proposed Gravel Mine on Balme Ayre Farm
A petition to the Supreme Court of British Columbia has been filed on behalf of concerned Cowichan Valley residents by Ms. McKenzie requesting a judicial review of the Agricultural Land…
The Drought Is Upon Us–This is Good News and Bad News Depending On How We Respond
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The watering restriction notices are out throughout the Cowichan Valley. The systems operated by the Cowichan Valley Regional District and some of the Water Improvement Districts have…
Steves–BC Doesn’t Need Site C Dam
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger It is incredible that our BC Liberal government, prodded along by the foreign owned LNG corporations, are still pushing ahead with building a massive Site C Dam.…
Superfood Growing Super Well in Cowichan
Here is a good news, good feel story by the Citizen’s editor Andrea Rondeau. Originally published in the Cowichan Valley Citizen Friday, June 5th, 2015 Nice to see well done…
The mystery advantage
Shorter Brad Wall:
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Armine Yalnizyan counters the Cons’ spin on tax-free savings accounts. And Rob Carrick points out that raising the limit on TFSAs would…