Father Charles Brandt: a long and winding journey
Hermit-priest Father Charles Brandt took a long and winding journey from a rural Missouri farm to a hermitage on the Oyster River. Now, he’s protected it forever.
Father Charles Brandt: a long and winding journey
Hermit-priest Father Charles Brandt took a long and winding journey from a rural Missouri farm to a hermitage on the Oyster River. Now, he’s protected it forever.
LATEST NEWS
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...
MLHS issues letter of thanks to Comox Council
Mack Laing Heritage Society archive photo By George Le Masurier he Mack Laing Heritage Society this morning issued an open letter to the Town of Comox mayor and council. Here is their letter: We, the Mack Laing...
DFO allows herring fishery, despite wide protest
Conservancy Hornby Island has criticized a decision by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to allow the March herring fishery to go ahead. It undercuts efforts to protect Killer Whales and chinook salmon stocks.
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
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.
Strathcona groundwater motion headed to AVICC vote
The Strathcona Regional District has asked the province to cease licensing groundwater for commercial water bottling and bulk water exports. It hopes all municipalities in BC will join the movement.
Herring fishery hurts bi-national orca recovery efforts
Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans undercuts international, multi-million dollar efforts to boost salmon and Killer Whale populations with a massive herring fish kill in March
These environment stories from 2018 could give us hope
Climate science reports released in 2018 all pointed to impending catastrophes. But there was also good news to savor, some of it originating right here at home.
ENVIRONMENT
These environment stories from 2018 could give us hope
Climate science reports released in 2018 all pointed to impending catastrophes. But there was also good news to savor, some of it originating right here at home.
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
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.
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
The Week: Where’s the moral leadership on Comox Council?
It's hard to see the forest for the trees sometimes / George Le Masurier photo By George Le Masurier he silence of Comox Town Council members for the plight of Mariner apartment dwellers is deafening. A...
The tooth fairy is only human
My daughter lost her first tooth playing outside on a late summer evening. Minutes later, I lost my parental halo after throwing the tooth fairy under the bus.
ENVIRONMENT
DFO allows herring fishery, despite wide protest
Conservancy Hornby Island has criticized a decision by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to allow the March herring fishery to go ahead. It undercuts efforts to protect Killer Whales and chinook salmon stocks.
DFO allows herring fishery, despite wide protest
Conservancy Hornby Island has criticized a decision by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to allow the March herring fishery to go ahead. It undercuts efforts to protect Killer Whales and chinook salmon stocks.
Strathcona groundwater motion headed to AVICC vote
The Strathcona Regional District has asked the province to cease licensing groundwater for commercial water bottling and bulk water exports. It hopes all municipalities in BC will join the movement.
Father Charles Brandt: a long and winding journey
Hermit-priest Father Charles Brandt took a long and winding journey from a rural Missouri farm to a hermitage on the Oyster River. Now, he’s protected it forever.
Herring fishery hurts bi-national orca recovery efforts
Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans undercuts international, multi-million dollar efforts to boost salmon and Killer Whale populations with a massive herring fish kill in March
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