Ready and eager to vote? Advance polls are open now. Gabriola voters can vote today at: Gabriola Island Elementary School Library (680 North Road, Gabriola) RDN Administration Office (6300 Hammond Bay Road, Nanaimo) Polls are open from 8 am to 8 pm. You going?
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Oh my. Last week the campaign landscape on Gabriola changed when Maggie Mooney’s campaign office opened in Folklife Village. Now it looks as if a similar office is about to open a few doors down: the space formerly occupied by the Island Book Shoppe now has a couple of Jordy Alexander signs on display. Well. [...]
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A short drive around Gabriola will remind you that we’ve got an election coming up: Eric Moeller has campaign signs here and there, and Jordy Alexander has lots and lots of signs up. (Odd, though, that Jordy didn’t respond when the Flying Shingle asked him for information. I wonder what’s up with that.) Now look [...]
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If you want to be an Islands Trust or Regional District of Nanaimo representative for Gabriola, this is your chance. File your nomination papers by October 14th, get people to vote for you, and you’re set! Our election day is Saturday, November 19th, 2011. Successful candidates will serve a three-year term. According to the candidate [...]
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Do you remember the boat that washed up on the rocks at Drumbeg a few winters ago? It was near the Stalker Road end of the park, and it came in after a storm. It stayed right where it landed for a very long time, because apparently we lack the legislation to get rid of [...]
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You free Saturday afternoon? Want to question those who would represent Gabriola Island (and the rest of Nanaimo-Cowichan) at the federal level? If so, get yourself down to the Agi Hall tomorrow afternoon, Saturday April 16th. The ‘all candidates’ meeting will be from 2 to 4pm. If you go, I’d love to hear your impressions [...]
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Gabriola’s Sheila Malcolmson has an article in the Vancouver Sun today: Islands Trust is real democracy at work. The article mentions that Islanders regularly consider governance, too, voting in several referendums over the past few years. In 1999, Bowen Island voted to incorporate as an island municipality within the Islands Trust. Saltspring Islanders defeated a [...]
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By now you’ve heard that some islanders are fussing about the role the Islands Trust has in local governance. An article in the Bowen Island Undercurrent, Petition questions Islands Trust’s value, has more details. It quotes Gabriola’s Sheila Malcolmson, too. Sheila says, among other things: I’d argue that the environment is at the foundation of [...]
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From the Victoria Times Colonist: Hundreds decry Gulf Islands governance. A Sunday afternoon protest on Saltspring Island over governance of the Gulf Islands drew more than 300 people to Centennial Park in Ganges, protest organizers estimated. Given that it was cloudy and threatening to rain, we were quite surprised that many people came out, said [...]
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If Islands Trust or RDN elections were as interesting as what’s happened in Reykjavik, Iceland, we would all be very well entertained. The New York Times summarizes: A polar bear display for the zoo. Free towels at public swimming pools. A drug-free Parliament by 2020. Iceland’s Best Party, founded in December by a comedian, Jon [...]
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From the Daily News: Group of residents from small Islands begin petition to demand a provincial review of the Islands Trust. Some Gulf Island residents are collecting signatures to petition for a provincial review of the Islands Trust Act, saying the legislation is outdated and follows a rigid pro-environmental policy. (…) Gabriola Island resident Jeremy [...]
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Now this seems like too much fun to resist: starting a country in the middle of an Irish university. Great article. Of course it does lead one to think that, well, if they can do that there, why can’t we set up our own country here? Just think, we could have the Republic of Gabriola. [...]
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Is Gabriola ever mentioned in Parliament? What has Gabriola’s Member of Parliament been up to? What conversations are taking place in the House of Commons on topics that matter to you? OpenParliament.ca makes it easy for you to keep up with these things. Type in your postal code on the first page (V0R 1X0 for Gabriola) [...]
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(Other than issues. I’m not trying to influence your voting decision here.) 1. Who’s organized. Quite a while ago, I visited the websites of all BC political parties. If there was a sign up for our email updates thing, I signed up. Today — the day before the election! — the Liberals sent their first [...]
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On May 12th, BC voters will decide whether to stick to our existing system, or switch to the single transferable vote system. If you haven’t decided how to vote on this issue, you might like to view the website of the organization that wants the change: STV.ca. They’re the group behind those ‘power up your [...]
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Islands Trust Representatives elected: MALCOLMSON, Sheila: 932 FERENS, Deborah: 870 Not elected: MOELLER, Eric: 172 LOWDEN, Ian: 142 BOEHM, David: 129 RALPH, John: 82 Source: Islands Trust. Regional District of Nanaimo Directors Elected: Maureen Young Holme George Joseph Stanhope David Bartram Gisele Rudischer: 674 Joe Burnett: 490 Lucien Biggemann: 465 Not elected: Ceridwen Peacey: 450 [...]
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