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The 4.2-hectare park has been closed to vehicles for more than a year during expansion of the Clover Point wastewater pump station by the Capital Regional District. Over that time, the area has become an important destination for pedestrians, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, Soulliere writes in his report. “Transitioning the southern area of the park from a parking lot to a pedestrian priority space will greatly improve the value of this recreational area,” he says. Soulliere isn’t recommending a public consultation process before council makes its decision. But he said in...

Construction in the area where the remains were found is on pause while the CRD works with the Songhees and Esquimalt First Nations, Elizabeth Scott, deputy project director for the core area wastewater treatment program, said in a statement. Construction continues in other areas. The CRD is in compliance with the Heritage Conservation Act, which facilitates the protection and conservation of heritage property in the province, Scott said. The CRD did not say exactly what had been found. “Out of respect we won’t be providing more information at this time,” Scott said in the statement...

The lines of traffic had just started to move when my daughter and I noticed an older man trying to run with his walker down the parking area, to what we assumed was his vehicle. His vehicle was quite some distance behind where we had been parked and now stood alone as everyone else had gone around. Just as he had passed us, his legs gave out and he had to sit on his walker. I was just about to jump out of the vehicle (and I must admit I wondered how I would get on board) when we noticed a B.C. Ferries truck patrolling the area turn around and pull up beside the gentleman.

An overhaul of the Capital Regional District’s processing system for wastewater entailed the major investment of building the McLoughlin Point Wastewater Treatment Plant on a 3.5-acre oceanside site in Esquimalt. There is also a new residual solids treatment facility at the Hartland landfill in Saanich, and 35 kms of piping that carries wastewater between the facilities. McLoughlin Point Wastewater Treatment Plant. (Capital Regional District) This wastewater treatment plant can treat 108 million litres of wastewater per day — equivalent to 43 Olympic-sized swimming pools — to a tertiary...

China is stealing $300 billion of our intellectual property and enabling a nuclear bomb in north korea. they do have gigantic nontariff trade barriers, it's a joke today beijing said we're going to take our case to the world trade organization. i'm like, are you kidding? i mean, diane -- violates the wto agreements they are not a free trade country -- >> if this is not sustainable, does this current situation make it more sustainable. >> it doesn't. but i do want to respond to stephen. we do know intellectual theft by china has been huge with this administration throughout the window was the g...