Cowichan Conversations
Alaska Threatened By Canadian Mining Operations
In far too many cases our mining industry has a disgraceful record wherever they have gone, certainly in Central and South America. The Alaskans are also threatened by our environmentally…
Poor Reed Elley, former Cowichan MP, never did understand economics.
Don Maroc The Cowichan Valley Citizen courteously printed a letter from Mr. Elley severely criticizing the recently elected Alberta NDP and its charismatic leader Rachel Notley. Although Premier Notley’s crew…
Pot and Politicians- A Curious Blend That Is Hard To Keep Lit.
I’m not holding my breath! Justin Trudeau, our newly elected Prime Minister and occasional pot smoker, has set the cat out amongst the pigeons with his announced legalization of marijuana…
American Voters Swing Over To Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders
Canadian voters tossed out the entrenched PM Steve Harper and chose change by shunning the conservative candidates from the Conservative Party and the NDP. We were inundated with messaging that…
Mayor Corrigan–Stop The Trans Mountain Pipeline Review, Trudeau Urged
Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan VANCOUVER — The mayor of a Vancouver-area city is urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to suspend National Energy Board hearings into the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline…
Premier Christy and Her Pretend Opposition To The Kinder Morgan Expansion
Our Premier Christy Clark has certainly muddied the waters regarding the Kinder Morgan expansion effort, currently before the National Energy Board (NEB). However advancing her 5 so called conditions as…
Christy Clark Tells NEB That Her BC Government Rejects The Kinder Morgan Expansion
When BC NDP leader Adrian Dix announced during the last BC election campaign that he would stop the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion the MSM went ballistic. They said that he…
How Many of These Security Mistakes Are You Making?
It is so easy to relax and get sucked into malicious links, emails and other inducements. Time to update, add protections and pay attention to some of the pitfalls as…
Could Truckers Bypass the Koksilah Dumpsite Favouring The Closer To Victoria SIA Location?
Former CVRD Director Loren Duncan Post submitted by Loren Duncan Could there possibly be a silver lining to the dark cloud of the SIA “dirty-dirt” dump that is operating under…
Peter Nix’s solar farm near Maple Bay – a model for community owned energy utilities?
In our wonderful hi tech world of efficiency I managed to lose this story from Carbon Buster Peter Nix. However, it is not date specific and worth a read and…
Rabble Poll On NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair’s Leadership
This is the second loss for the NDP when leading out of the gate. In both cases the professional corporate spinners such as Hill and Knowlton’s Brad Lavigne and of…
Stand With Shawnigan-January 6th
From Sonia Furstenau’s Facebook page. It’s fairly obvious seeing this in person, but from the air you see the mountain of so called “clean” fill. Mt. Marty, as I like…
Shawnigan Protests-Helicopter Rides To View the SIA Contaminated Landfill-Wednesday, January 6th between 9 am and 3 pm
On Wednesday, January 6th between 9 am and 3 pm, the #SaveShawniganWater Community Action Group has arranged to provide aerial tours by helicopter from Shawnigan Village to the south end…
Christy Clark Government Inaction Over Contaminated Soil Dump Threatens Shawnigan Real Estate Values
Shawnigan Residents Perseverance Remarkable While Facing Government Sanctioned Dumping In Their Watershed The BC Liberal government sanctioned attack on the Shawnigan communities watershed continues. RCMP enforcers are out in ever…
Has John Horgan Succeeded In Distancing Himself From Christy Clark’s LNG Nightmare?–Fletcher Interview
Once again the BC NDP seem poised for certain victory against the BC Liberals. However that task and challenge has not been accomplished since 1996 when an upstart and radically…