Greens tending to municipal crop

Earlier, Public Eye reported Vancouver Island Greens were looking at running candidates in the upcoming round of civic elections. And now we've learned those same Greens are in the process of signing-up supporters to register slates in the capital city and its surrounding municipalities. Under the Local Government Act, those slates need to have at least 50 members by August 10 if they want to endorse local election candidates. At publication time, an online registry was showing 17 Green supporters in Victoria, seven in Saanich and just a handful in the other municipalities online. But we're assured the number of paper sign-ups is much higher.