Tagged With: urban sprawl
School District 61 and the NDP
Published in Lower Island News (Victoria), January 2007 It is not pleasant to question the actions of fellow New Democrats in a public forum like this newspaper. But sometimes it is essential, particularly when NDP members hold positions of trust and public responsibility. We must question the decision of a majority of School District No. … Continue reading
Stand up to Bear Mountain
Published in Lower Island News (Victoria), December 2006 Earlier this year, I wrote about the need for progressives throughout the CRD to organize a regional force for change. This need was clearly demonstrated in November 2006, when the Bear Mountain Development Group provoked an ugly confrontation with local First Nations. This dispute centred around a … Continue reading
Why we need a new CRD electoral coalition
Published in Lower Island News (Victoria), March 2006 Democratic socialists and progressive allies in Greater Victoria have achieved strong representation in provincial and federal politics. At the municipal level, however, right-of-centre politicians dominate public office in the Capital Regional District. The result is inaction in the face of urban sprawl and growing inequality, which conflicts … Continue reading
Condos and ice caps
Letter to the Editor of Monday Magazine (Victoria), 25 November 2004 Scientists identify deforestation and fossil fuel consumption as the major forces driving global warming. In BC, the provincial government seems hell-bent on expanding these destructive practices, through intensified logging of old-growth and delicate forests, and through the opening of oil and gas drilling off … Continue reading
Take sides
Opinion-editorial published in the Martlet (Victoria), 15 March 2003 It is comfortable to pretend we are a big, happy family. Father knows best… Current circumstances make such a stance impossible. Our country is sending battleships and troops to escalate the war against Iraq. The BC Liberals are levelling our social infrastructure to nineteenth-century conditions, pushing … Continue reading
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WFP land sales haven’t helped mills
Letter to the Editor published in the Victoria Times Colonist, 5 October 2009 A recent article suggests that Western Forest Products wants to sell 2,500 hectares of undeveloped land on southwestern Vancouver Island “to finance mill modernization.” I do not believe this. WFP is as much a land development company as a forestry company. It … Continue reading »