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LATEST NEWS
Comox Valley seniors group says new beds fall short
Senior Voices Comox Valley says BC Health Minister’s announcement falls short of addressing the community’s urgent need for long-term care beds; beds should have gone to Glacier View Lodge
Union Bay boils water, new turbidity standards
By George Le Masurier nion Bay residents are boiling water today that before August they were drinking from the tap. That's when Island Health's standard for turbidity in water from Langely Lake changed from 3 NTUs to 1...
CVRD raises rebate offers to switch from wood stoves
By George Le Masurier he Comox Valley Regional District has increased the incentive for people wood burning stoves to switch to cleaner-burning systems. The rebates apply to any wood stove manufactured prior to...
The Week: Sharpe dissed, dogs sprayed, no pot and Go Santa!
Does anybody else think Mt. Washington freestyle skier Cassie Sharpe got overlooked as Canada’s athlete of the year? And, how fast can Comox open an off-leash dog park?
Morrison Creek: a spring-fed stream without stormwater outlets sustains aquatic life
Morrison Creek thrives with diverse aquatic wildlife thanks to only two relatively harmless stormwater outlets and a pristine, spring-fed headwaters that several organizations hope to protect
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HEALTH
Vaccine available for the virus headed our way
Vancouver Island health care professionals say a serious virus will hit the Comox Valley in a few weeks that will threaten the lives of those most vulnerable. Fortunately, they have a vaccine.
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OPINION
The Week: Was this the Year of Women in Comox Valley politics?
Was this the Year of Women in Comox Valley politics? You can certainly make a case that it was. More women ran for public office and were elected than the prior year in all branches of Comox Valley local government.
Is the genuine apology a forgotten or endangered species?
When civility in modern public discourse declines, it attempts to drag other forms of decent human interaction into the murky abyss of lost social conventions. The genuine apology, for example, teeters dangerously close to collateral damage. In the Trump world, you...
Who’s at fault: drivers or cyclists for crashes?
Provincial Court Judge Peter Doherty handed down a fair decision in the case of Timothy Prad of Bowser, the motorist who struck and killed a bicyclist, Paul Bally of Fanny Bay, on the Old Island Highway about a year ago. The judge found the motorist honestly thought...
If we Vote-By-Google this spring, the Green Party would win
When people start suggesting that highly paid writers such as myself – rumored to be in the high single digits! – start writing about British Columbia’s spring provincial election campaign, we do what any other sane person would do: hide under our desks until those...
Pot report stumbles on medical access
The federal task force on marijuana released a thorough report this week that proposes to end Canada’s 93-year prohibition on legal pot production and consumption. Its 80 recommendations touched on the important considerations and concerns for a well-regulated system,...
ENVIRONMENT
Sponging up the rain, taxing impervious surfaces — what other communities are doing
This is the sixth in a series of articles about how urban stormwater runoff has negatively impacted Comox Valley waterways, what local governments are doing to address the issues and what other communities have done.
Ministry stalls FOI request on Merville water bottling
The B.C. government has stalled a Comox Valley citizen’s Freedom of Information request for a technical study and other information regarding the approval of a water extraction licence in the Merville area
Farmers: reject Merville water bottling operation
The Mid-Island Farmers Institute has asked the Comox Valley Regional District board to reject a water bottling facility on Sackville Road in Merville. And they want the regional district to ask the Ministry of Forestry, Land, Natural Resources, Operations and Rural Development to rescind the water licence granted to the Sackville Road property owners, Christopher MacKenzie and Regula Heynck.
Managing urban deer is a local problem, not a provincial one
Provincial ministry confirms: province has no legal responsibility for managing urban deer. Comox Valley elected officials ignore problem while Oak Bay and Haida Gwaii take action
Requiem for a Garry Oak prairie
The Comox Valley has lost a 6,000-year-old Garry Oak prairie … largely because Comox mayor, Town Council and staff either don’t care or are ignorant of Comox’s natural heritage, or are hell-bent on development vandalism.
CULTURE
Fraser Cain: from Hornby Island to outer space
Fraser Cain was raised on Hornby Island, but his mind was always on another planet. Most of the time, Cain led the life of a normal teenager. He played video games and fooled around on the two-ferry, two-hour bus ride to school in Courtenay. But whenever he could, Cain dreamed about the stars, the planets, the universe.
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