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MK Delta isn’t the latest secret weapon aimed at the latest enemy du jour, but a land scheme targeting a piece of Burns Bog, one of the very last wetland sanctuaries on the west coast.
Perilously situated between hyper-developing Vancouver and the US border, last week, the MK Delta Lands Group development scheme received a preliminary green light from Delta council, a necessary step towards next month’s public hearings.
MK Delta’s president promises the 2 million plus square feet of industrial space will add to the tax base, while opponents worry about wildlife, the destruction of peatlands, and further diminishing of the Agricultural Land Reserve.
Eliza Olson is president of the Burns Bog Conversation Society, an organization that has, for nearly thirty years, worked to preserve and protect the bog, while proselytizing the necessity of saving the peatland environment.
Eliza Olson in the first half.
And; last week, Russia’s president addressed commemorations of the 75th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. Vladimir Putin used the sombre occasion to draw uncomfortable parallels of behaviour between Hitler’s Reich and the current military masters of Europe residing at Boulevard Leopold Troisieme, Brussels, Belgium.
While oceans of ink have poured these past weeks, devoted to Britain’s Brexit from the EU, barely a splash of that verbiage has focused on the role popular revulsion of NATO’s war and rumouring for wars played in turning Britons against a continental union guaranteeing perpetual participation in endless wars of aggression.
Finian Cunningham is an East Africa-based freelance journalist and columnist for RT and Sputnik. He’s a former editor and/or writer for the Mirror, Irish Times, and the Irish Independent. His reporting on human rights violations is also cited widely across the internet, earning him the enmity of despots, like the monarchical government of Bahrain, the world over.
Finian Cunningham and rejecting NATO’s self-appointed role as spearhead for neo-liberalism’s second-wave, trans-global colonial project in the second half.
And, Victoria Street Newz publisher emeritus and CFUV Radio broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft is away on assignment this week. So first up, Eliza Olson and maintaining the centre against corruption at the periphery of Burns Bog.
