“While the panel appreciates the social benefits of the proposal, the panel must consider the mandate of the commission … to preserve agricultural land and encourage farming,” it ruled in February. A second application was soon submitted and the government has taken unusual steps (recounted here Tuesday) to get the original decision reversed. The Agriculture Ministry raised objections and appeared non-supportive during the first application. But now it has reversed course and is endorsing the proposal. Popham’s deputy minister even wrote a letter of support to the First Nation stressing the importance of the proposal, which is now in the package before the quasi-judicial ALC panel.
It took two days of questioning in the legislature before she finally hinted on Wednesday that she “thinks” the society that runs the program might get funded. But the background to the B.C. School Fruit and Vegetable Nutritional Program story makes you wonder where she’s been for the past few months while the government ghosted the society. Eating local is a motherhood issue by now. Everybody favours it. Same goes for feeding kids healthy food. So feeding kids healthy local food is as motherhood and (B.C.) apple pie as you can get. Why the big mystery now about continuing the few million dollars granted every year to a society that does exactly that all over B.C.?
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Rich Coleman, the influential, ex-Liberal cabinet minister roasted at the hearings that launched B.C.’s money-laundering inquiry, has had the final say.
Commissioner Austin Cullen ended his hearings on Friday, after two years of investigation, by watching Coleman the final witness be grilled to clarify earlier testimony.
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For nearly 90 minutes, Coleman was raked over the coals for previously failing to fully answer questions about his response to comments in 2011 by then RCMP inspector Barry Baxter that it was obvious dirty money was flowing through casinos.
It took two days of questioning in the legislature before she finally hinted on Wednesday that she “thinks” the society that runs the program might get funded. But the background to the B.C. School Fruit and Vegetable Nutritional Program story makes you wonder where she’s been for the past few months while the government ghosted the society. Eating local is a motherhood issue by now. Everybody favours it. Same goes for feeding kids healthy food. So feeding kids healthy local food is as motherhood and (B.C.) apple pie as you can get. Why the big mystery now about continuing the few million dollars granted every year to a society that does exactly that all over B.C.?