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Friday, February 19, 2016
A HAUNTING REMINDER Red dresses hang in the trees of Charles Hoey Park on Feb. 14 as part of the REDress Project by Warmland Women’s Support Services. Created in 2010, the REDress Project is a representation of missing and murdered First Nations women and a call to prevent future violence against women. It has run in public spaces across Canada, although this was the first time it has been done in the Cowichan Valley. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]
City wants slice of future pot tax windfall The City of Duncan is looking for its fair share of taxes from marijuana dispensaries when they are finally legalized, even though the city’s bylaws currently prohibit such businesses.
City council passed a motion at Monday’s meeting asking that the Association of Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities lobby the federal government to request that a portion of any future federal and provincial tax collected through marijuana
sales and distribution be shared with local governments. The resolution will be presented at the AVICC’s conference, scheduled for April 9, and also forwarded to the Union of B.C. Municipalities. “The regulation and enforce-
ment for medicinal marijuana retail dispensaries will likely fall to the local governments once the law changes, thus creating additional burdens on local government resources,” according the motion. One of the campaign promises
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made in November’s federal election was to legalize marijuana, but it’s unknown at this time just how long it will take to finally change the laws. See TENS OF MILLIONS, Page 9
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