UPDATE: Saanich Coun. Ned Taylor said on Monday night Saanich council unanimously defeated a motion to no longer allow dogs to be off leash in Mount Douglas Park, Cuthbert Holmes Park and Panama . . .
Isitt tried to amend the motion, which he filed a month earlier, by removing all references to the Pacheedaht and Fairy Creek, and using more generic terms about supporting a transition away old-growth logging.
Isitt said Thursday he changed the wording after the CRD received a terse letter from the Pacheedaht saying it did not welcome the “unsolicited interference or involvement” from the region’s governing body. He will introduce the new motion at the next meeting.
CRD board chair Colin Plant wouldn’t allow the amended motion, citing procedure, and said Isitt’s original motion would start the next board meeting on May 26.
If nothing is done, the CRD says, current habits and population growth will put the landfill at capacity by 2045. The plan proposes a number of ways to reduce, recycle, manage and divert waste. Short-term priorities include investigating options for a clean-wood waste ban and deconstruction rather than demolition methods, creating a community-based waste reduction grant program and working with regional partners to reduce waste generated by apartments and businesses, which are less likely to have programs separating garbage and kitchen scraps. Construction materials make up about 40% of the waste in the landfill, a figure being pressured by the building and renovation boom during the pandemic.
With more than 1,500 British Columbians dying from suspected drug overdoses in the first 11 months of 2020, two Saanich councillors have brought forth a motion that demands the federal government declare the opioid crisis a national health emergency.
As the death toll from drug overdoses continues to mount, municipal politicians in Saanich and Victoria are demanding the federal government declare a national public health emergency and consider . . .