Momentum builds for public operation of Sooke sewer services

SOOKE – Over 60 Sooke residents attended “Keep it local, keep it public”, a community screening  of a new  documentary titled Water Makes Money that chronicles Europe’s disastrous experiment with water and wastewater privatization at the hands of large corporations as well as the wave of re-municipalisation taking place as communities fight to keep control […]

Solidarity with CUPW on the Island – rally today

COURTENAY – CUPE 3479 members from North Island College joined locked out Canadian Union of Postal Workers on the picket line yesterday. Michelle Waite, president of CUPE 3479, said that the CUPW members really appreciated CUPE’s presence and enjoyed the energy of a new group on the line. “We livened up the line and the positive […]