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Rot at the Top – CEO Pay 26 Aug 2013 | 04:30 pm
CEO pay has nothing to do with the operation of the free market. It is a rigged system in which all forces conspire to push pay packages even higher regardless of results. Hardly a month goes by and w...
Garbage incinerator proposed for Nanaimo 21 Aug 2013 | 04:30 pm
Duke Point in Nanaimo is a site under consideration for a waste-to-energy garbage incinerator. It would burn 370,000 tonnes of Metro Vancouver’s garbage per year. Waste-to-Energy (WTE) incinerators c...
Departure Bay Neighbourhood Changed Forever 19 Aug 2013 | 04:10 pm
At the August 12, 2013 Nanaimo City Council meeting, all the councillors voted unanimously to allow Brooks Landing Shopping Mall to expand into neighbouring Lynburn Estates in Departure Bay, despite t...
Vancouver Island Logger Sports at VIEX 14 Aug 2013 | 04:11 pm
The Vancouver Island Exhibition Fair starts this Friday, August 16, 2013 in Nanaimo at Beban Park and runs for three days. VIEX is a fun country fair for the family and originally started over 100 ye...
Horne Lake Connector – roads to resources 12 Aug 2013 | 04:30 pm
There is a possibility that another highway on Vancouver Island will be built: the Horne Lake Connector. In June 2013, a report by Apex Engineering was completed to assess possible new highway connec...
Ballenas Basin: The Grand Canyon of Nanaimo 9 Aug 2013 | 04:42 pm
As people look out over the Salish Sea from North Nanaimo, Lantzville and Nanoose they are overlooking the Ballenas Basin which is the deepest part of the Strait of Georgia with an average depth of 40...
What’s killing Cedar and Yellow Point? 8 Aug 2013 | 10:40 pm
How can a few people on a school board vote to kill a community? Why was there no public referendum on such a serious issue as closing all the schools in Cedar and Yellow Point? Also, how is it that ...
Deforestation of Nanaimo 6 Aug 2013 | 04:41 pm
In the last 25 years Nanaimo has lost 45% of its urban forests. Deforestation of Nanaimo has occurred because of clear cut developments and the removal of trees on existing lots without any replaceme...
Drug Lobbyists and BC Health Care 31 Jul 2013 | 04:00 pm
Ultimately, BC politicians are responsible for spending $1.2 billion per year of taxpayers’ money on drug products. The drug giants are more than eager to gain access to our collective pockets. Compa...
Nanaimo conference centre hotel mystery 29 Jul 2013 | 04:00 pm
At the July 22, 2013 Nanaimo Council meeting, all the coucillors voted in favour of proceeding with the proposed new Nanaimo conference centre hotel, to be built by the Chinese youth travel company, S...
