(Letter sent May 29, 2024 to Alberni Valley News published June 4, 2024) Dear Editor, Enough. This aquatic centre debate has dragged through at least 5 terms of Council and Regional Directors spanning nearly two decades. An entire generation and more of young people, my own children included, have had to use a facility that …
Continue reading “Enough Bickering – Build the pool, unite the City.”
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 …
Continue reading “Government, Social Media and obligations under Access to Information laws”
(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 …
Continue reading “Mosaic Forest Management Only Has Contempt”
