Business is booming in B.C.’s northwest, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at the crumbling streets and leaking pipes of the region’s towns and cities. That disconnect between the economic prosperity of the region’s natural resource projects, and its cash-starved municipalities, led a delegation of mayors to travel to Victoria this week to plead […]
“I want interventions that will make the community safe and that will work.” Carol Fenton Dr. Carol Fenton no longer answers her cell phone when it rings — which is a problem for a busy medical health officer at the Interior Health Authority. The verbal abuse that’s inevitably on the other end of the line […]
But can salmon survive the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans? asks Tom Davis. My wife and I recently attended the Pacific Salmon Foundation’s Victoria gala and auction. A few weeks later, Peninsula Streams, an important Victoria umbrella restoration group, held their 20th anniversary dinner and an online fundraiser. These events generated more than $200,000. The […]
