Category Archives: ToTheEditor

Small town Canadian newspapers at risk from anti-democratic Carpenter Media ownership group

(The Letter was sent to the Alberni Valley News on October 8 2025) Dear Editor, I am deeply concerned that the new American owner of this newspaper, Carpenter Media, has crossed a bright red line in journalism ethics that calls into question the independence and integrity of every newspaper they now own. As reported in …

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How many bullets do we dodge before we take away the fossil fuelled gun?

(This letter was sent to the AVNews on August 18. It was published in the August 27 2025 print edition and online on the AVNews website on August 30) The first picture I have of the Underwood Fire. I took it at 6:53PM August 11 opposite the Barclay hotel in Port Alberni. Dear Editor, Port …

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2 years later, my Freedom of Information Request shows a snapshot of Government ignoring Vancouver Islanders for 20 years.

On June 28, 2023 I submitted a Request for Information to the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure of British Columbia for documents related to the Island Railway on Vancouver Island. It took two years to receive the response.