Want to know the latest on the fight to save the Discovery Coast Ferry? You’ll find it here, along with links to the latest news stories as they develop.
- PRESS RELEASE: Stone’s Boatload of Ferry Fiction on the Discovery Coast (11/24/2014) - “We don’t believe it makes a lot of sense… to invest 100 million dollars in a new vessel on this particular route.” – Transportation Minister Todd Stone Transportation Minister Todd Stone suggests that he is saving new vessel costs of…
- Economic Impact Study in the News (11/20/2014) - There has been a lot of coverage of the release of our Economic Impact Study. Read a selection of reports here. Globe & Mail Stephen Hume’s article in Vancouver Sun
- Raeside’s View (11/20/2014) - A beautiful take on the current situation from the brilliant mind of Adrian Raeside. Visit the Times Colonist to view Raeside’s cartoon. Check out more editorial cartoons on Raeside’s website.
- RELEASE: Wrong Numbers, Mr. Stone (11/20/2014) - Transportation Minister Todd Stone continues to use numbers shown months ago to be incorrect, indicating the Minister simply cannot accept the economic reality he is responsible for creating. The only portfolio less suited to Stone’s abilities would be Education, as…
- RELEASE: Ferry Cuts Causing Losses Well in Excess of Savings: Study (11/17/2014) - (Download the Discovery Coast Tourism EIA study.) A shortsighted attempt by BC Ferries to save $725,000 has resulted instead in a $3.9 million loss of tourism revenue, according to an economic impact study released Monday, with the losses expected to…
- PRESS RELEASE: Study Shows Ferry Route Change Cost Economy Millions (11/13/2014) - An explosive new economic impact analysis promises to demonstrate the BC Government’s decision to cut the Discovery Coast Route 40 ferry service was shortsighted and destructive to the local economy and tourism. Not only have the oft-touted savings not materialized,…
- PRESS RELEASE: Premier Clark Should Listen to Talk Show Clark (11/6/2014) - While Transportation Minister Todd Stone continues to make unsupported, misleading, and erroneous claims about ferry service in British Columbia, another member of the cabinet has in the past shown a great understanding of the issue. Although Premier Christy Clark has…
- The Province: Government shows its incompetence when it comes to B.C. Ferries — again (11/6/2014) - One day after saying the government might shut down a major ferry terminal and scrap a major ferry route, Todd Stone shifted into full reverse Wednesday. The transportation minister said his bright idea was shot down by a couple of…
- RELEASE: Is Minister Stone Capable of Making a Rational Decision? (10/28/2014) - Transportation Minister Todd Stone’s decisions around Route 40 have accomplished precisely the opposite of his stated intentions, exactly as critics in the region have predicted. He spent more than the expected savings to cancel one of BC Ferries’ most utilized…
- Press Release: Minister Stone “survives” Nimpkish, but Tourism Won’t (10/10/2014) - “The little Nimpkish ferry, the little 16-car ferry which now serves Bella Bella to Bella Coola, is getting the job done. … To those who criticize the decisions that were made and those who say that the Nimpkish will not…
- BC Local News: Bleak summer for coastal ferry remake (10/8/2014) - There was an uproar in the B.C. legislature this spring when Transportation Minister Todd Stone went ahead with $19 million in cuts to low-usage coastal ferry routes. The plan had been laid out in detail before last year’s election. It…
- The Province: B.C.’s transportation minister reveals a heart of Stone over impact of high ferry fares (10/7/2014) - B.C.’s transportation minister isn’t very impressed with a new report on the economic damage inflicted by skyrocketing ferry fares. “Irresponsible,” Todd Stone called the report commissioned by the Union of B.C. Municipalities, which argued that plummeting ferry use has cost…
- Times Colonist: UBCM call for ferry changes a long shot (10/7/2014) - First, there was the out-of-left-field announcement last week that the government will study the feasibility of building a bridge to Gabriola Island from the Nanaimo region. It’s in response to a petition signed by about 600 people, which might potentially…
- Times Colonist: UBCM unlikely to alter Ferries’ course (10/7/2014) - Premier Christy Clark empathized with frustrated leaders of ferry-dependent communities Wednesday, but it was more to make up for her sulky transportation minister than to entertain ideas of a course change. Municipal leaders commissioned an exhaustive study showing all the…
- Times Colonist: MV Nimpkish hits rough sea of reviews (10/7/2014) - The reviews are in on the MV Nimpkish. If it were a play — Voyage of the Damned, say — maybe people would have appreciated it as a gripping study of the limits of human endurance. But it wasn’t a…
- Saanich News: UBCM ferry report makes for awkward talks (10/7/2014) - The annual Union of B.C. Municipalities convention marks its halfway point today in Whistler, where mayors and councillors from around the province have gathered to gauge their common appetite for ensuing battles with higher levels of government. This year’s convention…
- The Province: Transportation Minister rejects call for ferry-fare rollbacks, restoration of service to 2013 levels (10/7/2014) - B.C.’s transportation minister said the government has no plans to roll back ferry fares or to restore service to 2013 levels, despite a unanimous vote Wednesday at the Union of B.C. Municipalities to endorse a policy paper on the damaging…
- AM730: Stone trashes UBCM report on BC Ferries (10/7/2014) - The Minister of Transportation has sent a four page letter to the Union of BC Municipalities basically telling it the report they released about declining ferry traffic and its affect on the economy, is garbage. While Todd Stone begins the…
- Huffington Post BC: Report Exposes Government Mismanagement Of B.C. Ferries (10/7/2014) - A new report released by the Union of British Columbia Municipalities (UBCM) seriously questions the decisions of the provincial government to decrease ferry service and rapidly increase fares over the past decade. The study shows mismanagement of the ferry system…
- Globe & Mail: Transportation minister promises to keep BC Ferries fare hike in line with inflation (10/7/2014) - British Columbia’s transportation minister is promising to hold BC Ferries rate increases to the level of inflation starting in 2016 – the best deal he can offer coastal communities outraged over fares and service cuts. Canada’s inflation rate was 2.1…
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