Coast Beat Episode 93: This week, Sean, John and Sophie discuss the apparent death of the ambitious Sechelt Sustainable Community project, which council rejected at first reading last week, just over three years after it was proposed.

And the we look at the ambitious political project that is extending the vote to 16 and 17 year-olds.

Show Notes:

Our latest story on SSC Properties

http://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/ssc-dead-after-sechelt-council-vote-1.23202665

Green leader Andrew Weaver’s explanation of why he thinks 16 and 17 year-olds ought to get the vote:

https://www.bcgreens.ca/weaver_re_introduces_bill_to_extend_voting_rights_to_16_and_17_year_olds

Coast Beat Ep. 92: The latest moves in the chess game that is the debate over the Sunshine Coast Regional District’s Chapman Lake water expansion project may finally have brought about a stalemate.

A story in our paper last week has led to us learning some important details about a controversial gravel mining proposal in Howe Sound.

And, that surprising hazard identified in a Municipal Insurance Association report on the District of Sechelt we mentioned in Ep. 91.

Show notes:

John Gleeson’s editorial on the Squamish Nation and Burnco

http://www.coastreporter.net/opinion/editorial/burnco-likely-a-sure-thing-after-squamish-approval-1.23195674

Sean Eckford’s story on the driftwood hut at Davis Bay

http://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/driftwood-hut-deemed-high-risk-1.23195637

Sophie Woodrooffe’s last update on the Champman water project debates

http://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/chapman-project-makes-it-through-round-2-1.23195601

Coast Beat Ep. 91:

A look at some of the stories so far in what is starting to look like an interesting run-up to the municipal election, and after a couple of years of peace it looks like the “battle of the bollards” is heating up again in West Sechelt.

Show Notes:

Our story on the Women’s Campaign School is here:

http://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/campaign-school-seeks-more-women-candidates-1.23182655

Here are the links to our stories on Lori Pratt and Garry Nohr’s election plans.

http://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/nohr-leaving-the-door-open-for-another-run-at-scrd-director-1.23188733

http://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/school-board-chair-lori-pratt-running-for-scrd-area-b-seat-1.23182228

And, you can read Sean Eckford’s editorial on Acclimatizing to Acclamations here:

http://www.coastreporter.net/opinion/editorial/acclimatizing-to-acclamations-1.23188629

A late winter storm that hit the south coast of BC Feb. 23 has the podcast crew off for the day, but we’ve got a little taste of one of our major stories for this week.

Show notes:

Our latest updates on the storm are at coastreporter.net

Our story on the BC budget is at:

http://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/ferry-fare-reduction-confirmed-1.23182207

Editor John Gleeson’s take on the possible impact of the Sunshine Coast being left out of the expanded area for the foreign buyers and speculation taxes

http://www.coastreporter.net/opinion/editorial/development-pressures-we-ain-t-seen-nothin-yet-1.23182287

Coast Beat Ep. 90: This week we talk water. Debates over whether to focus on emergency drought measures or securing a bigger drinking water supply continue at the Sunshine Coast Regional District. And, in salt water related news, a parliamentary committee on the latest derelict boat legislation hears from a couple of local government reps.

Show Notes:

Our story on the latest SCRD water debates:

http://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/milne-urges-action-on-reservoir-1.23175112

Our story on SCRD directors Frank Mauro and Ian Winn’s appearance at the parliamentary committee studying Bill C-64:

http://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/scrd-directors-to-weigh-in-on-abandoned-vessels-bill-1.23168935

Coast Beat Ep. 89:

This week, Sean and John sit down with Powell River – Sunshine Coast MLA Nicholas Simons in advance of the NDP government’s Throne Speech and February 20 budget.

We recorded the interview just after Health Minister Adrian Dix confirmed a site on shishalh Nation territory is likely to be the home of a controversial new long-term care facility.

Show Notes:

Our story on the Trellis/shishalh Nation deal to build a new long-term care home

http://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/deal-close-to-build-trellis-facility-on-sh%C3%ADsh%C3%A1lh-nation-land-says-dix-1.23167871

Coast Beat Ep. 88: Sophie takes us a little deeper into the science behind our front page story about a Roberts Creek amateur astronomer who made contact with a satellite NASA had given up for dead.

And, inspired by a bit of verse that showed up in our letters to the editor, Sean and John talk pipeline politics.

Show Notes:

Sophie Woodroofe’s story on Scott Tilley’s discovery of the IMAGE satellite:

http://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/long-lost-nasa-satellite-found-alive-by-creeker-1.23161697

The mission website for NASA’s IMAGE satellite (which includes links to classroom projects and ‘To See the Invisible” : https://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/

This week Sean and John sit down for an extended interview with West Vancouver, Sunshine Coast and Sea to Sky MP Pam Goldsmith Jones who was in Sechelt earlier this week.

And, Sophie brings us some of the voices from the women’s march in Roberts Creek

Coast Beat Ep. 86: This week Sean, John and Sophie have more from the Coast Beat’s wild kingdom files - with a domestic animal chase

And, St. Hilda’s Anglican Church in Sechelt is in desperate need of repairs. We’ll take you inside for a look at the scale of the task facing the parishioners and the contractors

Sophie Woodrooffe’s story on St. Hilda’s ongoing renovation woes:

http://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/renovation-woes-continue-at-st-hilda-s-1.23122923

Sean Eckford’s story on the rescue of a drug-addled raccoon:

http://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/wildlife-rehab-takes-in-drugged-raccoon-1.23148311

Our story on the report rejecting a cat bylaw in Sechelt:

http://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/1.23148564

Coast Beat Ep. 85:

A year after the Sunshine Coast saw its first, and so far only, major spike in opioid overdose deaths a crew from the Coast’s newest, and smallest, volunteer fire department had to put their Naloxone training to the test for the first time.

And we take a trip into the familiar waters of petitions about BC Ferries

Show Notes:

Sophie Woodrooffe’s story on the Egmont Fire Department using its Naloxone training for the first time: http://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/egmont-firefighters-use-naloxone-to-fight-overdoses-1.23142044

John Gleeson’s editorial:

http://www.coastreporter.net/opinion/editorial/safeguards-prudent-amid-overdose-crisis-1.23142099

Our front page story on overdose deaths from January 2017:

http://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/surge-in-opioid-ods-on-coast-1.7153721