Seabird Island First Nation to hold referendum on housing, business lease extension

SEABIRD ISLAND — Sq’éwqel (Seabird Island) northeast of Agassiz will hold a referendum next month involving an affordable housing project and the extension of a business lease that could benefit community members.The band will ask community members to support or reject Seabird Island leasing land on Pipeho:M Road to itself, through its Seabird Island Housing Society, for a BC Housing affordable housing project. Leasing to the Seabird Island Housing Society for 42 years would a