(This letter was sent April 2, 2024 and published in the April 10 issue) Dear Editor, Imagine the public reaction today if a party campaigned on “axing the cigarette tax”. We know cigarette companies hid the facts, with the help of politicians, for decades before government finally acted in the best interests of the people dying …
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Government, Social Media and obligations under Access to Information laws
I did a thing As sometimes happens, I submitted a letter to a government official/agency today. What now you ask? Well, it has to do with something that has long interested me. Access to Information. Particularly when it comes to government institutions and their reluctance to access to the reams of information they generate out …
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Mosaic Forest Management Only Has Contempt
(Background: “Logging near cemetery a ‘shock’ for Port Alberni residents” Letter Published in March 13, 2024 edition of AV News) Dear Editor, I am not shocked. Mosaic’s (formerly Island Timberlands and Timberwest) recent logging adjacent to the cemetery and Hole in the Wall shows in the worst way that it respects the dead as much …
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