Editor:
(Public comments to government on the Raven Coal mine are available from www.coalwatch.ca.
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Why is it up to citizens to hold both industry and government to environmental and social account?
Anger over the HST has BC Liberals in rough shape across the province, with public opinion polls suggesting they will struggle to win or hold onto ridings where the margin in the last election, in 2009, was tight. Alberni-Pacific Rim is not one of those ridings – a decisive NDP win in 2009. Does the HST make the next Alberni-Pacific Rim contest a foregone conclusion?...
By Tim Schewe
Traffic Columnist
It's that time of year again, sunny and dry with a chance of mindless smokers....
By Estella Charleson
Columnist
TOFINO — I come from the house of kinquashtacumlth from the Hesquiaht First Nation, which is located on the northernmost fringe of Clayoquot Sound....
By Tim Schewe
Columnist
Something must have struck a nerve lately, as I have received a number of requests to deal with cyclists passing other traffic on the right hand side....
By Keven Drews
We thought the box of Huggies’ Little Snugglers, 84 diapers in all, would last us a week.
Well, we thought wrong....
Editor:
Hopefully by now you've heard about the petition to make sure if coal comes to Port Alberni, it comes by rail....
By Tim Schewe
Traffic Columnist
Here's a new angle on a continual problem, that of other road users failing to yield to emergency vehicles. Most of the time this question is asked about cars and trucks, but this fire department official asks the question about a different subset of traffic, cyclists....
Editor:
In response to Steve Bird, harbour manager: Right! ...
By Charmead Schella
Columnist
The Raincoast Education Society (RES) has been turning heads and raising awareness of the world around them in unique and inspiring ways for more than a decade....