Longtime CVRD Director Loren Duncan served Glenora-Sahtlam-Cowichan Station for a hundred years, more or less. He offered his take on the trials and tribulations of Cowichan Bay’s CVRD Director Lori Iannidinardo. He sees her as Read more…
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Cowichan Conversations: CVRD Director Iannidinardo’s Lawyer Jack Woodward QC Mocks Steelhead LNG Lawyers Irrational Demands
In a strange and unusual twist the Steelhead LNG/Malahat Nation lawyers sent a missive to the CVRD Board essentially telling them to walkaway, stand down, and not to participate in any further involvement in any Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Steelhead LNG’s Howe Street Executive Demands Surreal Surrender By CVRD Elected Officials
The newly implanted CVRD CAO Brian Carruthers probably thought he finally arrived when his shop received correspondence from the infamous Howe Street, the Vancouver equivalent to Toronto’s Bay Street and New York’s Wall Street. But Read mor…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: CVRD Senior Staff Hire Lawyer To Impede Independent Cowichan Bay Director Lori Iannidinardo
Peter Rusland’s story on the Bamberton LNG contoversy was originally published in the South Cowichan Echo. Peter Rusland Unanimous opposition by Cowichan’s regional directors to Steelhead LNG’s proposed floating facility off Bamberton is caus…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: CVRD’s CAO Carruthers Hires A Spin Doctor Despite Board Rejecting Such A Post
Richard Hughes It looks as if the CVRD’s CAO Brian Carruthers has settled in nicely and is running affairs at the CVRD as he sees fit in spite of direction from our elected officials. Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: CVRD-Board Ducks and Transfers Additional Power To CAO
Don Maroc Getting toward the end of a three-hour meeting of the Cowichan Valley Regional District Board last Wednesday (11 Mar. 2015), Corporate Secretary Joe Barry tiptoed through the bylaws to be voted on. It was routine stuff. Board Chair Jon Lefebure was almost chanting, “may I call the question?
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