COAPCITIZENS OVERSIGHT & ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT
Local matters.
So do your questions.
COAP is a community advocacy project in the Cowichan Valley. Our focus is public accountability, affordability, and the practical effects of government decisions on local lives.
Our current reporting and commentary live on Substack. This website brings together the historical COAP and Westward Independent archives, public-records projects, videos, and a new way to learn about complicated local issues.
COAP has a perspective. We approach the issues through a pragmatic, fiscal-responsibility lens. Our aim for the learning experiences is to make the reasoning, evidence, and trade-offs accessible enough for people to examine for themselves.
A platform for community voices.
The Westward Independent brought together reporting, ideas, and perspectives from dozens of participants. It was a place for a variety of voices, rather than simply a statement of what Joe and Adrienne think.
That purpose matters to COAP: making room for local people to contribute, ask questions, and be heard. An archived article reflects its contributor’s perspective at the time of publication; it should not automatically be read as Joe and Adrienne’s personal view or COAP’s current position.
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Read, ask questions, share useful records, or join the conversation through our existing community channels.