In the news today:
WL Election - Surinderpal Rathor (see here), Gordon Keener (see here) and Micheal Jacobsen (see here) announce their bids for WL City Council
CRD Election - Ted Hlokoff (see here/here) and Roger William (see here) compete for the CRD Area 'J' Director seat
Other News:
a) Vehicle fire on MacKenzie Ave Monday am - see here/here
b) Access to diesel fuel restricted at Petro Can commercial stations until Nov 19th - see here
c) Fluoride Open House - see here/here
d) Tribune editorial decries lack of "All Candidates" Forums - see here
e) Cariboo-Chilcotin MLA Donna Barnett touts the new BC Tourism strategy - see here
Editor's Note - while the new BC Tourism strategy is good to see, we need to see our local governments work on this too. We can't afford to have Victoria do this for us, it'll take a partnership between local gov't and Victoria to make local tourism flourish in the Cariboo-Chilcotin, in my estimation...
f) Tribune columnist Diana French talks about the civic election, teachers and the BC Poverty rate - see here
g) Letter writer Henry Van Soest decries why the HST to PST/GST can't be done in 18 months - see here
h) Letter writer Margaret Jacobsen advocates for residential water meters - see here
Finally - Stephan Hume of the Vancouver Sun writes today about the on-going public debate on the land swap of Heritage Island for Crown land on Bridge Lake, including the issue of extinguishing the right of "public benefit". The land in question is in CRD Electoral Area 'L' - see here
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