A recent poll revealed that Canadians have quite differing levels of trust when it comes to different professions. While nurses and teachers enjoy the trust of more than 75 per cent of the public, politicians are highly trusted by a meagre 14 per cent.
It is in this climate of mistrust and suspicion that you must [...]
There is a mission statement for Bowen Island municipality; it adorns the top of all agendas prepared for council meetings, and makes five pledges: to improve the economic, environmental and social well-being for present and future generations; to encourage and foster community involvement; to enhance the small, friendly, caring character of the community; to maintain [...]
Some years back an older wiser man offered this comment when I complained about the slow pace of political affairs: “Things don’t just go from A to B; they go round and round. You just hope that with each turn of the wheel, things move forward a bit.”
Sadly, he has been quite correct. The Snug [...]
Here we are in the final months of our three-year term, on the brink of passing the Snug Cove Plan, some 20 years after the community first began debate about its merits. For the past three years I have had the privilege of direct political involvement in this plan, and I want to use this [...]