Posts by Gordon O'Connor - Page 3

Log and Flog

February 4, 2010 | 

Printed in Focus Magazine, February 2010by Leslie Campbell Steve Sewall, VP, Community Planning with Couverdon, also spoke at the luncheon. Sewall has only been on the job about five ...

Conflict of Interest

January 29, 2010 | 

Politics is a dirty business.  It’s no secret to any of us that the agreements and plans which shape our community’s future are often hatched behind closed doors far ...

Grassy Narrows

January 12, 2010 | 

 by: Chris Kornacki – Wawatay News After almost a decade of blockades and protests from Grassy Narrows First Nation, the Ontario Superior Court has begun hearing evidence in the ...

$2 Million? Thanks For Nothing

January 1, 2010 | 

In 2007 the Province privatized 28 000 ha of land with an estimated commercial value of 130 million dollars.  This created the windfall of controversy and after three years ...

Urban Sprawl and Poverty

November 23, 2009 | 

The CRD has a nationally renowned problem with homelessness. There are 1500 people living here with inadequate housing and withoutimmediate action that number will quadruple in size within fiveyears.   Currently ...

In Whose Interest?

September 6, 2009 | 

Across North America popular interest and progressive land use planning is being side stepped by developers who’s systematized power to manipulate political and legal procedures buys them the freedom ...

Open Season for Developers

August 21, 2009 | 

Executives at Western Forest Products (WFP) must have been dancing on their board room tables last Thursday.  That was when the BC court of appeal released its decision to ...

A Different Kind of Environmentalism

August 19, 2009 | 

I was introduced to environmentalism by my teacher in grade eight.  I learned about the destruction of the rainforest in Brazil, decaying refrigerators in China, parched rivers in the ...