Residents of Vancouver Island communities have seen their local news coverage diminished. Throughout Canada amalgamations, takeovers and accelerated corporate control of ownership and content has taken its’ toll. In the Cowichan Valley we know first Read more…
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Cowichan Conversations: Rafe Mair–So Long Ed Murrow and Hard-Hitting Mainstream Journalism
You can hardly pick up a paper these days without hearing of another local paper or indeed chain of papers folding up, laying hundreds off and leaving the community without a local paper, or with Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: This Cowichan News Leader Story Is Right On The Money!
This story is a keeper! What a contrast to recent to the confused Cowichan Citizen offerings about the Balme’s efforts to process gravel through a ‘Temporary Use Permit.’ It is a good day when at least one of our local newspapers has seen through the bafflegab that surrounded this latest
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