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Nisga’a
canoes in town Sunday night |
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Here is a story
from Kitimat
about first leg of journey |
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Accompanied
by RCMP and CG plus a seiner |
Paddling all
say and eating sea foods from beaches – I was told by man whose wife was one
of paddlers |
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Mandatory
Parking and the new Zoning Bylaw |
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Presumably
the bylaw will be given final reading August 17th Council meeting --- I have argued before
the parking obligations are an anachronism at best and at
worst ‘class privilege’ – and
perhaps here is the real future--- electric cars and bicycles along with
public transit The
July 29th Council Info package (see city web
site for these at times interesting packages of non-confidential Council
correspondence) had an insightful article on limited authority of Council to
deny ‘lawful’ building permits (note underlining) PDF |
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Hearken
back to last Council meeting
when indignant Graham Street residents took up much of the public comment
period about their disapproval of a potential subdivision that might hinder
their view etc ---- Perhaps similar (outrage) happened in a public hearing at
White Rock and the permit was subsequently refused --- the fellow went to
Court and won --- in a nut shell, the Council had gone beyond its
jurisdiction since the project had met their Official Community Plan and
their DPA etc ---- thus underlying the importance of getting it right the
first time --- and contrary to Gordon=Payne’s bon mot that ‘It’s not the Ten
Commandments’ --- (so lets approve it now and worry about details later) ---
Now is the time to ‘work it out and get it right --- the
PDF on city site is best but
this newspaper article conveys the import of Court Case – and Vancouver Sun
article |
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Building
permit was for a 10M$ health care facility on Summit --- I guess Jack did
have good news |
More Mail in
Council pkg |
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Also
of note is the Naikun project may actually
be doing some of the Research requested by Area A Crabbers about potential
effects on migrations etc by electrical cable ‘fields’ etc---- (see my earlier) |
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DFO management has an almost impossible task: trade off yield for commercial fishers against ‘Biodiversity’ (species and populations)
Both are from RECREATING
SUSTAINABLE SOCKEYE FISHERIES IN THE SKEENA WATERSHED by Greg. G. Taylor
and Janice L. Dickie |
The
Sockeye fishery has not been covered well by local media --- accepting ‘us
versus them’ framing of discussion |
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Unlike
the Fraser River sockeye run – on the Skeena many different stocks run timing
overlap ---thus hitting Skeena salmon hard (compare left to right image) ---
is not working – (weaker stocks being fished out)
Nor
will the ploy used in 2006 where political pressure used to allow a prolonged
opening in August to mop up a large run – and many coho and steelhead
inadvertently etc (see the image below where 40% total run caught in August
2006)--- presumably this is the ‘flexibility’ Thorkelson wanted from the
Minister |
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John
Holland gone – what is up at SQCRD? |
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Interpretations
vary from another example of poor Board relations with their manager – to the
more personal story that Mr Holland needed something closer to ‘home’ etc Whatever,
I hear H Koning will be taking over the job next week on a six(?) month
contract – again similar in broad
outlines to when Janet Beil was fired and city put another of its own in the
job: Gordon Howie’s wife Tanalee Hesse who had been working
w city to replace Tom Ireland (July
2006) etc |
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See John Holland new CAO starting July 16th
2007 Read chronology
of events by former SQCRD employee: (see above 'cast of characters 1st) |
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More Later
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Created by LG on 10/8/2009
Last updated on Monday, August 10, 2009