March's Our Isle & Times

Spring is Springing and with it comes our regular monthly edition only a week after our Special Edition!

The Public Hearing about CityWest's fibre optic cable continues to be the top story.

The Hearing continues tomorrow/Thursday @ 1pm at the Judith Fisher Centre.  If approved, our decades-long moat keeping the other side from invading Lasqueti will be breached.  If it is delayed or denied, we can finally have a calm, cool and collected conversation about whether we want more high speed Internet on our island and if so, how we will bring it here.  Much (but not all, since a lot of it is in our Special Edition) of the research is summarized on the Front Page.  It is highly recommended to review it before the start of the Hearing tomorrow.

Surprisingly, there is more going on than just a life-or-death fight against the invasion of our island:

An Oscar may soon be awarded to a documentary that literally conceals and twists known facts...Michelle continues to alert us to the real-life fall-out of this reel fallacy (her own documentary is linked below).

Pseudo-science is outed for what it is, using scientific methodology, thanks to Paul's research.

Gord gets us growing early this year with detailed plans to grow gorgeous greens.

Brian points out the socialist hypocrisy in Victoria...thankfully someone is calling them out!

We also share lots of tips to eRATicate them once and for all...Lasquetian tips, so you know they work!

And, as always, there's humour and history throughout to keep it fun and relevant.

Below are the links that provide receipts for our reporting...with a new format to make it even easier to follow up your read:

Public Hearing about Fibre Optic Cable
https://webfiles.islandstrust.bc.ca/islands/local-trust-areas/lasqueti/c...

https://webfiles.islandstrust.bc.ca/islands/local-trust-areas/lasqueti/c...

Good Faith Information Re: Bylaw 104 and 'Last Mile' - Google Docs

Exclusive: Why Did Government End Wireless Radiation Studies? Former NIH Scientist Unpacks the Behind-the-Scenes Story • Children's Health Defense

High-Speed Access for All: Canada's Connectivity Strategy

CityWest Provides Annual Distribution Payment to Shareholder

CityWest Provides Prince Rupert with Company Update

CityWest to Provide $1 million to the City of Prince Rupert

CityTel becomes independent - The Globe and Mail

https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/high-speed-internet-canada/en/universal...

CityTel becomes independent - The Globe and Mail

CityWest - Wikipedia

CCNP-ISPreseller-Application-FORM-2023feb.pdf

About TELUS

CityWest Announces Acquisition of the Gillies Bay and Texada Community Television Associations

CCN-ISP-reseller-interconnect-process-6jan23.pdf

An Update to our Haida Gwaii Customers

CityWest blames crabbers for interrupted Haida Gwaii internet service - Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows News

Connecting British Columbia | Northern Development

https://www.citywest.ca/dropping-in/faqs
https://islandstrust.bc.ca/island-planning/lasqueti/current-applications/

Prince Rupert faces $165K in fines over sewage, landfill pollution - Bowen Island Undercurrent

Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs): Definition, How They Work, and Examples

https://babylonbee.com/
Chip Bok for Feb 21, 2025, by Chip Bok | Creators Syndicate

(2) The Bitter Roots of "Sugarcane" - by Michelle Stirling
Residential Schools Missing Children Community Support Funding Recipients

Gord's New Novel
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/102129/gilderwood

https://hashilthsa.com/news/2014-01-31/key-witness-nuu-chah-nulth-fishin...
https://www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/English/parl_oag_202403_02_e_44451.html

Vaccination and Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Study of Nine-Year-Old Children Enrolled in Medicaid - Science, Public Health Policy and the Law

https://nourishingtraditions.com/

https://climaterealists.ca/
paulmacrae.com

https://www.onlinecrosswords.net/solutions/64130

https://walkerssawshop.com/
http://lasquetiisland.ca/
https://albertsonshomecenter.com/
https://resilienttech.ca