Dear Mayor and Council: Amid all the other considerations council is shouldering regarding this complex, controversial zoning proposal, you have another concern: public intimidation by managers, workers, customers, friends and…
In the Wednesday, Aug 21, 2019, Cowichan Valley Citizen an article titled “Maintaining flows in everyone’s best interest.” Catalyst. A representative referred to as the environmental manager, Brian Houle, explained…
Hi Richard, I hope you had a wonderful weekend. I spent Sunday afternoon checking out Lake Cowichan’s 75th anniversary celebrations. There, I took a tour of the weir, led by…
Here is Larry Pynn’s new website… Welcome to www.sixmountains.ca What you need to know about logging of the Six Mountains in the Cowichan Valley North Cowichan municipality, in the Cowichan…
In response to Don Maroc’s post Icil Dobell A recent discussion about the composition of North Cowichan’s Forestry Advisory Committee, in Cowichan Conversations, refers to Where Do We Stand…
In response to Maroc’s post. I feared it would only be a matter of time before someone sought to divide North Cowichan along class lines, distinguishing recently arrivals to the…
Icil Dobell Much has been said by both the Municipality and Where Do We Stand (WDWS) about the number of live trees taken to harvest the scattered blowdown on…
Stoney Hill blow-down harvest was very responsible The actual logging sites have been portrayed as large clear-cuts and that just is not a fact. Stoney Hill blow-down harvest was very…
Shawnigan Lake residents may take a new legal direction to protect their property values from sadly plummeting if chemical pollution further fouls Shawnigan Lake. During a lively town-hall meeting Aug.…
Peter Nix Dear Editor I was an environmental scientist consulting with many of the oil sands companies in Alberta in 1999 when I realized that any benefits of oil were…
. By Michael Harris | TheTyee.ca Michael Harris, a Tyee contributing editor, is a highly awarded journalist and documentary maker. Author of Party of One, the bestselling exposé of the…
Well done Alex, nice to see after your decades of dedication to local sports. Your ebullient personality, and ‘I can do this’ approach, has been officially recognized. Rock on brother!…
Justin Trudeau still won’t apologize for his SNC mess LORI TURNBULL SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL Lori Turnbull is the director of the School of Public Administration at Dalhousie…
Don Maroc Larry Pynn seems to think we should be grateful that he and Icel Dobell recently moved to the Cowichan Valley from the big city so they can save…
Mayor Siebring: Regarding your response… https://alsiebring.blogspot.com/2019/08/context-on-conflict.html …to my article in the Times Colonist: https://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/op-ed/comment-conflict-of-interest-amid-north-cowichan-trees-1.23908016 First, I must object to the assertion that my article left the impression that Cedar Elliott…
Comment: Conflict of interest amid North Cowichan trees Larry Pynn / Times Colonist A commentary by a veteran environmental journalist and winner of eight Jack Webster journalism awards who recently…
Good morning, It is time for a summer break and I will be offline until September/October. I hope that you will be out in your gardens, down at the beach,…
Today’s political soup offers little in the way of social or environmental sustenance. The Horgan government’s Environment minister George Heyman delivered the decision selling out the citizens of Shawnigan Lake…
It gives you pause to realize that a significant number of BC’s locally elected officials are OK with the thinly veiled scheme of influence. It is embarrassing to see how…
Citizen Publisher Calls Out North Cowichan Mayor Al Siebring
Nice to see Cowichan Citizen Publisher Warren Goulding joining the fray and speaking out about North Cowichan Mayor Al Siebring’s tactics at the recent meeting regarding the future of the…