September 28, 2011 Mirror

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Alarm raised over ‘slate politics’ KRISTEN DOUGLAS CAMPBELL RIVER MIRROR

Council candidate Darryn Striga is concerned Campbell River will suffer under totalitarian rule if a slate of candidates from Fusion Campbell River is elected to city council. Striga, a first-time candidate, worries about keeping a true democracy intact if candidates from just one group are elected. “When you elect a slate, you are not truly electing seven officials, you are essentially only electing one unified mind, or one official and six loyalists,” Striga says. “When a mayor has a council that is comprised of only his closest allies, he has carte blanche to act in any manner he deems fit with no accountability to be expected from the councillors.” Striga says there is a good reason a slate has never run for council in Campbell River’s history and believes what Fusion founder Walter Jakeway and his group is doing is cause for concern. “There is a term already in Continued on A3

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Chainsaws ready Kelsey Cosgrove (from left), Taryn-Lea Geyser, Lindsay Frederick, Tasia Herbert, Courtney Wilson and Louis Patterson (front) are primed for the Timberline Interact Club’s wood cut and sale Sat., Oct.1. All proceeds will go towards more Disaster Aid Boxes which support developing countries recovering from disaster. A truckload of wood costs $150 if delivered and $110 if picked up. To place orders, call Barb Izard at (250) 923-9500 Ext. 218.

B.C. Jobs Plan ignores the Island, Trevena says RENÉE ANDOR CAMPBELL RIVER MIRROR

The B.C. Jobs Plan misses the North Island completely, according to North Island MLA Claire Trevena.

Premier Christy Clark unveiled the plan last week, and although Trevena said the idea to create the plan was good, the plan itself was a let down for this area of the province. “Canada may start in B.C., but

the first land mass you get to is Vancouver Island and the Liberal Job Plan seems to ignore Vancouver Island, which is very troubling if this is their approach for economic development, that a large section of the province

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