Originally published by https://sixmountains.ca Closed Working Group meetings at issue By Larry Pynn The provincial Office of the Ombudsperson has launched an investigation into a complaint by sixmountains.ca over secrecy involving North Cowichan’s public consultation Read more… The post Ombudsperson office investigates ‘secrecy’ complaint against North Cowichan first appeared on
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Cowichan Conversations: Icil Dobell-The Bear And The Unicorn. Part One
Icel Dobell writes about her remarkable encounters in the forests, aka Six Mountains, North Cowichan. BC WHEREDOWESTAND.CA Remarkable Encounters in the Forests The Bear And The Unicorn. Part One
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: What Is A Forest? How Does It Live? How Does It Die?
Icil Dobell There is an extraordinary phenomenon occurring in North Cowichan and the world because of Covid-19. The unanticipated implications for our forests are an advocate’s dream come true. In this time of Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: North Cowichan has a remarkable opportunity to protect BC’s most endangered ‘landscape,’ says prominent plant ecologist
Originally published by sixmountains.ca. North Cowichan’s 5,000-hectare Municipal Forest Reserve lies within the most endangered “ecological zone” in British Columbia, providing the municipality with a remarkable opportunity to make a major conservation difference, Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: NC Council approves 2,000 cubic metres of logging in Municipal Forest Reserve, rejects additional cutting pending consultation with UBC, public
Originally published by Sixmountains.ca North Cowichan council has rejected a staff suggestion to approve logging an additional 5,000 cubic metres from the Municipal Forest Reserve. Instead, council voted unanimously to log 2,000 cubic metres Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: It’s Time For Our Forward-Thinking North Cowichan Council To Establish a Tree Protection By Law
Dear North Cowichan Mayor and Council; I strongly urge our forward-thinking council to read and recommend, as soon as possible and with advertised public input, a North Cowichan tree-protection bylaw similar to Duncan council’s Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Public banned from appearing before North Cowichan’s Forestry Advisory Committee
Public banned from appearing before North Cowichan’s Forestry Advisory Committee By Larry Pynn The future of North Cowichan’s 5,000-hectare Municipal Forest Reserve is at stake as the community considers either a business-as-usual approach — yet Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Motor Sport Resort Is Brown Not Green – North Cowichan Must Act!
Richard Hughes Is this an April Fools joke? Unless there is an amendment to the zoning, or a new zone is established this could end up being used year around all right. It may already be too late. Let’s see, what other uses than racing expensive toys for the well
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Jon Lefebure Takes on the Tax Issue
Here is Jon Lefebure’s pushback on Taxation, the dominant theme of Election 2014 in North Cowichan Municipal Election. Jon Lefebure Taxes, we all wish we they weren’t necessary, but they are. We have to maintain our infrastructure, roads, pipes, buildings, or they will fail. We have to invest in
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: North Cowichan Budgeting Should Be Participatory
Rob Douglas is a Cowichan Valley activist very instrumental in organizing a series of meetings regarding Cooperatives in the Valley. Here is his latest column written for the Cowichan News Leader and reproduced here with his permission. Participatory Democracy has been practiced in many areas throughout the world and was
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