The Cowichan Valley snowpack is not large enough to provide the water that fish need to survive, conservationists fear. (Paul Vecsei/Engbretson Underwater Photography) Laura Sciarpelletti · CBC News Crisis for…
Originally posted in Common Dreams Mar. 15, 2019 09:20 AM EST Austrian youth gather outside the Hofburg palace in Vienna for a climate protest as part of the…
By Peter W. Rusland To log or not to log North Cowichan’s municipal forest reserve? And if so, where and how? Those pointed, timely questions were aired and debated using…
By Peter W. Rusland It’s clear Cowichan regional directors must commission a long-overdue environmental impact study of the Cowichan Bay Estuary before deciding about an industrial-rezoning application from a bay…
My own research shows that in rural British Columbia the main source of winter air pollution is residential wood burning, and that it is mostly being ignored and rarely monitored…
Originally posted on Facebook Monday March 11th, 2019 Sonia Furstenau Jennifer Lawson to Richard Hughes Subject: SONIA FURSTENAU’S LETTER..PLESAE POST ON COWICONVERSATIONS Re: Request to Reject Re-zoning Estuary Date: Sun,…
Let’s hope everyone has been enjoying the political circus in Ottawa these past few weeks. Those who earlier voted for, and liked, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have looked the other…
An Open Letter from Paul Rossmo General Manager, Vancouver Island Motorsport Circuit February 28, 2019 A small group of local residents filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court of British…
This should have been done as an element of the CVRD’s zoning amendment. Claims of risks, present and potential, need to be determined by the CVRD political representatives prior to…
Originally published by the Cowichan Citizen Cowichan Bay business assists Coast Guard in saving boat Read more…
Dan Donavan posted this revealing post in Ottawa Life. It is a most thorough report. An eye opener exposing the entrenched corruption and scandals that is the reality of…
Green Party Leader Elizabeth May By CINDY E HARNETT / Times Colonist and Canadian Press MARCH 7, 2019 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s acknowledgment today that he should have been…
Luckily, the critical patient could still recover with urgent remedial care. That message was discussed by two dozen Cowichanians during a Feb. 28 meeting at the Best Western Cowichan Valley…
Originally published by the Tyee By Andrew MacLeod – TheTyee.ca Andrew MacLeod is The Tyee’s Legislative Bureau Chief in Victoria and the author of All Together Healthy (Douglas & McIntyre,…
Musings from the Cheap Seats Housing crisis, homelessness, mental health, local economic effects, and environmental impacts. We hear lots about these very relevant and timely issues. A lot of…
As I recollect…sometime before the first world war CNR started to build a railway line from Victoria to Youbou…primary usage was to be hauling logs and processed timber…mostly from the…
Don Maroc When Mr. Schuerholz said, ““The vast majority of people living in the bay do not want industry in the estuary…”, he may be right. It depends on what…
We may well be seeing just the tip of a melting iceberg. Jane Philpott has been highly regarded across party lines. Her message could not be more clear and obvious.…
Residents say their concerns have been heard, as racetrack lawsuit settled in Cowichan ‘People told us, ‘You’re never going to accomplish anything. They’re too big, you’re too small,’ Sahtlam resident…
