Rural Comox residents want less odour, more compensation
Curtis Road residents have asked the Courtenay-Comox Sewer Commission to reassess its plan for future odour controls and the need for a second equalization basin. They also want Host Community Compensation
Rural Comox residents want less odour, more compensation
Curtis Road residents have asked the Courtenay-Comox Sewer Commission to reassess its plan for future odour controls and the need for a second equalization basin. They also want Host Community Compensation
LATEST NEWS
Comox Cannabis Innovation Centre construction underway
Prefabricated walls for the greenhouses and laboratories at the Cannabis Innovation Centre in Comox are being installed this week. The centre plans to open this summer.
The Week: North Island health care privatization marches on
Good morning, it’s a great day in the Comox Valley. Let’s praise the Comox Strathcona Regional Hospital Board for finally standing up to Island Health’s steady march toward privatization of health care
Hear Jane Philpott interview on CBC radio
FromWikipedia By George Le Masurier ane Philpott, who was expelled from the federal Liberal Paty caucus this week, along with Jody Wilson-Raybould, spoke about the affair on CBC Radio this Morning. Asked by Anna...
CVRD implements stage 4 water restrictions for emergency fix
By George Le Masurier irectors of the Comox Valley Regional District Water Committee implemented Stage 4 water restrictions as of April 12. The restrictions will remain in place during an emergency repair of the CVRD's...
Comox Cannabis Innovation Centre construction underway
Prefabricated walls for the greenhouses and laboratories at the Cannabis Innovation Centre in Comox are being installed this week. The centre plans to open this summer.
Island and BC coastal communities say “ban groundwater licenses”
Bruce and Nicole Gibbons, photograph from their Facebook page By George Le Masurier epresentatives of 53 municipalities on Vancouver Island and the British Columbia coast have endorsed a Comox Valley initiative for the...
Three new sewage conveyance routes short-listed for study by joint advisory committee
Less than a year after the Comox-Courtenay Sewer Commission abandoned its patchwork plan to prevent leakage from large pipes that run through the K’omoks estuary and along Point Holmes beaches, a new, comprehensive Liquid Waste Management Plan is emerging that considers climate change and moves the entire conveyance system onto an overland route.
Vanier grad Jonathan Page builds cannabis science hub in Comox
Jonathan Page grew up along Headquarters Road with his twin brother, Nick, digging under logs to study plants. Now he’s the nation’s top cannabis scientist with global responsibilities.
ENVIRONMENT
Vanier grad Jonathan Page builds cannabis science hub in Comox
Jonathan Page grew up along Headquarters Road with his twin brother, Nick, digging under logs to study plants. Now he’s the nation’s top cannabis scientist with global responsibilities.
HEALTH
Ministry continues Liberals’ privatization of health care
George Le Masurier photo By Barbara Biley work for Island Health as a medical transcriptionist at the Comox Valley Hospital.On Jan. 30, all the VIHA medical transcriptionists, in Victoria, Nanaimo, Courtenay and...
Ministry continues Liberals’ privatization of health care
George Le Masurier photo By Barbara Biley work for Island Health as a medical transcriptionist at the Comox Valley Hospital.On Jan. 30, all the VIHA medical transcriptionists, in Victoria, Nanaimo, Courtenay and...
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
Providence, Golden Life get new Comox Valley long-term beds
Golden Life Management Corporation and Providence Residential Care Community society will share the Comox Valley’s 151 long-awaited additional residential care beds.
Bishop gifts St. Joe’s Comox site to Providence Health Care
Providence Health Care has acquired The Views at St. Joe’s and formed a new independent entity devoted solely to seniors care. It accelerates movement toward St. Joe’s vision of a dementia village
OPINION
The Week: North Island health care privatization marches on
Good morning, it’s a great day in the Comox Valley. Let’s praise the Comox Strathcona Regional Hospital Board for finally standing up to Island Health’s steady march toward privatization of health care
The Week: North Island health care privatization marches on
Good morning, it’s a great day in the Comox Valley. Let’s praise the Comox Strathcona Regional Hospital Board for finally standing up to Island Health’s steady march toward privatization of health care
The Week: bizarre backstory; great news on sewage planning
Good morning. We’re writing about the tragic backstory of a water valve, the state of happiness in Comox, new (and thankfully) long-term sewerage plans and the strength of women like Jody Wilson-Raybould speaking truth to power
Comox must apologize for breaches of Mack Laing Trust
Comox Mayor Russ Arnott casts lone vote against out of court conversations to settle dispute over the Mack Laing Trust. But the town must apologize for its historic wrongdoing.
The Week: housing issues, sure, but this study is nonsense
The Comox Valley has housing affordability issues, but a recent study sensationalizing our problems by an obscure website is so seriously flawed that it amounts to nonsense
ENVIRONMENT
Island and BC coastal communities say “ban groundwater licenses”
Bruce and Nicole Gibbons, photograph from their Facebook page By George Le Masurier epresentatives of 53 municipalities on Vancouver Island and the British Columbia coast have endorsed a Comox Valley initiative for the...
Island and BC coastal communities say “ban groundwater licenses”
Bruce and Nicole Gibbons, photograph from their Facebook page By George Le Masurier epresentatives of 53 municipalities on Vancouver Island and the British Columbia coast have endorsed a Comox Valley initiative for the...
Comox Valley man working AVICC to ban groundwater extraction
Vancouver Island Groundwater Rights Update Water rights advocate Bruce Gibbons is on a mission to end licensing of groundwater extraction for bottled water on Vancouver Island. And if that goes well, for all of BC
Comox Valley hears “Voices from the Sacrifice Zone’
By Gavin MacRae was a long rap sheet, but speakers from the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment detailed the dangers of fracking to people in the Peace region of BC, this Sunday at the Florence Filberg...
Five anti-fracking activists speak at CV forum
Anti-fracking activists tell Comox Valley audience that the LNG life cycle is worse for the environment than coal, and that BC project serve only export markets that soon may not exist
CULTURE
Dancing in Gumboots: Comox Valley stories of cultural shift
Comox Valley anthologist Jane Wilde pulls together 32 stories of women who moved to the Comox Valley between 1970 and 1975 and broke down gender barriers, and built lives based on self-confidence and self-reliance
Dancing in Gumboots: Comox Valley stories of cultural shift
Comox Valley anthologist Jane Wilde pulls together 32 stories of women who moved to the Comox Valley between 1970 and 1975 and broke down gender barriers, and built lives based on self-confidence and self-reliance
The Decafnation lists its favorite books read in 2018
Each year on Jan. 1, Decafnation presents its annual collective book report. Thanks to everyone who took the time to share micro-reviews of books they enjoyed in last year.
The meaning of Guernica explained in a subway
Baffled by the imagery of Guernica? An art critic explains Picasso’s famous anti-war painting to random people in a New York subway.
Cumberland’s dilemma: Save the Ilo Ilo or create arts space elsewhere?
Does Cumberland want to save the historic Ilo Ilo Theatre or does it want to create a performing arts space in the most viable location? That was a question debated recently in the renovated lobby of the former opera house