Council Meeting Live Blog – Canal Beach, Bulldogs and Community Gardens

The live blog is about to commence. Richard Berg comes up first for the public input period – on the bulldogs: – Says they are $300,000 in debt. Have seven years interest free. “There’s no way they can pay back that debt”. Councillor Chopra is up next – Inviting people to the Kamagato Maru Anniversary …

Car Sharing – Bike Delivery – Climate Savvy City

If you were tuned into the news at all yesterday you will have seen mention of the US Governments release of its third National Climate Assessment. The conclusions were stark and made clear that Climate Change is upon us in the form of extreme weather and acidifying oceans and only we humans could be responsible …

Forests. We all want them managed right. Right?

Did you know Port Alberni owns some of its own forest land? Check it out at http://www.communityforest.ca These lands are public lands, outside of the Dunsmuir/Private lands owned by Island Timberlands and Timberwest. The line runs right through Sproat Lake, you can see it forming the right boundary of the Sproat tenure in the image …