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Rob Thompson: SD 71 trustee candidate looks at the future of education post-pandemic
Comox Valley Area C voters will elect a new school trustee in a Dec. 12 byelection. Rob Thompson is one of the six candidates.
NDP’s Ronna-Rae Leonard: voters given chance to choose long-term stability
Courtenay-Comox riding incumbent MLA Ronna-Rae Leonard of the NDP seeks her second term in the BC Legislature with no apologies for calling a snap election
BC Liberals Brennan Day: economic recovery calls for bold ideas and actions
BC Liberal Party nominee Brennan Day may be the youngest candidate in the Courtenay-Como riding, but he has 15 years of oil and gas industry and business management experience to get the economy moving again
Greens Gillian Anderson: stop fossil fuel subsidies, only public long-term care beds
Former long-time NDP supporter Gillian Anderson is running for the BC Green Party because she could not endorse Premier John Horgan’s broken promises on environmental issues
3L Developments is back, and again asking to amend the Regional Growth Strategy
3L Developments Ltd. has returned to the Comox Valley Regional District to ask the Electoral Services Committee to push an RGS amendment on its behalf to the full board. That would clear the way for a new version of Riverwood
Was there corruption in the Courtenay-Alberni Green Party nomination process?
Questions of impropriety at the Green Party of Canada nomination meeting in June erupted this week when one of the candidates went public with allegations that the vote was corrupted. But Mandolyn Jonasson’s larger concern is how the party tried to suppress her attempts to fix the mistakes
Courtenay-Alberni candidates address climate crisis in forum
At the only federal election forum in the Courtenay-Alberni riding focused strictly on the climate crisis, four of the five candidates showed up and answered questions from a panel of four and an audience of about 300 voters
Candidates to speak at 4th Person’s Day Lunch on Oct. 18
Federal election candidates will answer questions at the 4th annual Persons Day lunch on Oct. 18 at the Best Western Westerly Hotel celebrating three milestones in the journey to equity for Canadian women
Conservative Horner snubs climate all-candidates forum
Recent youth-led climate strikes in the Comox Valley indicate that climate change has become an issue in the federal election, but Conservative Byron Horner has declined an invitation to participate in an Oct. 4 candidates forum on the topic