Dr. Connie Harris invites you to join us We’re talking about the Estuary Saturday June 14, 9-5, Vancouver Island University in Duncan, lecture hall. CERCA symposium.So, here we were, the…
Shawnigan Lake faces an uncertain future. Here is a very good report from ‘Brent at the Focus’ regarding the BC Environmental Appeal Board Hearing over South Island Aggregates (SIA) applications…
Kevin Logan-Cowichan Conversations Contributor So they have finally done it. The Backroom Brain Trust (or is that Brian Trust?) which have concocted endless, hair-brained strategies and tactics under the banner…
Cowichan Conversations Contributor Why are we some of the most world’s most profitable companies receiving what amount to public handouts when we are supposedly living in a time of austerity?…
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Teacher’s Pet The struggle between teacher’s, parents and students on one side and the BC Liberal government on the other goes back to the days of when Gordon…
Written by Robyn Ladner Robyn Ladner-Teacher BC has the worst student-educator ratio in Canada. BC has the 2nd worst per student education funding in Canada. BC’s Education funding is $1000…
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…
Kevin Logan-Cowichan Conversations Contributor On this the first day of BC’s much ballyhooed International LNG conference, it is worth noting, comparing and contrasting BC’s LNG “model” and that of competing…
The fallout over the recent attack over the heavy-handed firing of Saskatchewan University Professor Robert Buckingham is rapidly gathering momentum, especially in the academic and educational circles. In attempts to…
Would You Move to the Cowichan Valley for $100,000 a Year?By Blaise Salmon Blaise Salmon Here’s the deal: a salary of $100,000 a year, a secure government job with full…
Richard Hughes-Futurist In these days of largely bad news, here is a good news story to lift your spirits. In truth the technological capabilities that are possible could transform our…
Long time Cowichan activist Bill Woollam has offered this guest post critical of fracking and David Black’s refinery proposal. Bill has his own blog that covers wide-ranging issues. It can…
Richard Hughes- Blogger Like many of you I have spent the weekend in the vegetable garden and up on the deck. It is encouraging when with some work and effort…
Don Maroc – Cowichan Conversations Blogger Taking over as provost of McMaster University, in Hamilton, Ontario, in 2007, Philadelphia born Ilene Busch-Vishniac wrote, “…what I’ve learned moving into new positions…
Richard Hughes-Political as hell! Climate change is happening and has been happening for some considerable time. The Climate Deniers have gone to great lengths attempting to convince us that it…
Read this story by Mychaylo Prystupa-Vancouver ObserverVideo included “It’s the first time I’ve felt so pushed and powerless by a force outside of our area telling us what is to…
In what well be a welcome to the future wake up call the reality of pipeline failures was made clear in this Los Angeles spill. Here is a recent CBC…
Saturday’s protest against the Enbridge Proposal attracted close to 300 protesters to ‘The Hub’ at Cowichan Station. The soon to be soggy bottomed opponents laid down on the damp grass…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The more I hear and watch a now seriously compromised US presence in Ukraine the more I am encouraged by the independent voices rising to counter the…
