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by Letters to the editor on Tuesday Feb 16 2021
An Open Letter to Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, Katrine Conroy:
Dear Minister Conroy,
Congratulations on your appointment as Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development. We hope you will usher in considerable change from the former destructive practices of that Ministry.
We also thank you for your willingness to “close the loopholes” that allowed the trapping of wolves on Vancouver Is-land. New legislation is definitely needed, and we appreciate your prompt recognition of this.
However, your statement quoted in the Times Colonist, that you will “be working with the B.C. Wildlife Federation and BC Trappers Association to change the regulations”, has caused serious consternation across the environmental movement, which represents thousands of British Columbians. Surely your Ministry would not select only two interes
Pemberton Mayor Jordan Sturdy
Pemberton Mayor Jordan Sturdy is denying a claim made by the Fight HST group that he stole an anti-HST sign that was located near his North Arm Farm property.
Fight HST issued a press release Thursday (July 14) stating that the group s Sea to Sky co-ordinator, Kelly Carson, received a report from an undisclosed source who witnessed Sturdy removing the sign and taking it into his vehicle.
The release also states that when Carson contacted Sturdy, he admitted to taking the sign.
When reached by
The Question for comment, Sturdy said the sign was no longer erect and he relocated it, but did not steal it as the Fight HST release claims.