Economic Development Society: hidden finances, failed relationships. Read the series
How municipal stormwater practices kill our urban streams: read the whole series
Sexual health education: why your children need to know
No CV economic recovery plan yet, lack of destination marketing raises concerns
Nearly seven months after the BC lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the Comox Valley Economic Task Force has yet to form any plans to help local businesses and the region’s destination marketing office has been “repurposed”
No CV economic recovery plan yet, lack of destination marketing raises concerns
Nearly seven months after the BC lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the Comox Valley Economic Task Force has yet to form any plans to help local businesses and the region’s destination marketing office has been “repurposed”
LATEST NEWS
Union Bay opens new water treatment plant, eliminates boil-water advisories
Union Bay Improvement District opens a new water treatment plant, hopes to eliminate future boil-water advisories
CVRD directors approve racecar testing at Smit Field for one year by 2-1 vote
Racecar testing will continue at Smit Field next to Nymph Falls Nature Park, at least for another season, after Comox Valley rural directors voted 2-1 in favour of a scaled-down temporary use permit
The Week: VIHA and province disrespect our hospital board, medical staff and the public
As the Vancouver Island Health Authority reduces health care services to north islanders and deflects accountability, the public looks to the Comox Strathcona Regional Hospital District board for advocacy
The Week: March for our planet today, but who will take the big, bold steps we need?
The Comox Valley will march at 1 pm today for changes to slow down climate change. But are we really just giving lip service when bolder actions are needed to save the planet?
Father Charles Brandt honored by Canadian Museum of Nature
The Canadian Museum of Nature has given Father Charles Brandt their 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award. The Oyster River hermit was nominated by the Comox Valley Land Trust.
3L Developments is back, and again asking to amend the Regional Growth Strategy
3L Developments Ltd. has returned to the Comox Valley Regional District to ask the Electoral Services Committee to push an RGS amendment on its behalf to the full board. That would clear the way for a new version of Riverwood
New Courtenay-Comox sewage master plan process to restart after virus lockdown delays
Delayed by this spring’s COVID-19 virus lockdown, public consultation on the region’s new Liquid Waste Management Plan will begin later this summer
The Stolen Church now repaying history with new life in Merville
Who says historic Comox Valley buildings from the early 1900s can’t be fully restored and recommissioned for future generations? Not Craig Freeman, who points to the second relocation and recent restoration of St. Mary’s Church
FEATURE
The Stolen Church now repaying history with new life in Merville
Who says historic Comox Valley buildings from the early 1900s can’t be fully restored and recommissioned for future generations? Not Craig Freeman, who points to the second relocation and recent restoration of St. Mary’s Church
HEALTH
$52.6 million Dementia Village planned on former St. Joseph’s General Hospital site
A 156-bed Dementia Village for the Comox Valley took another step forward May 25 as Island Health announced a project development agreement with Providence Living for the project.
$52.6 million Dementia Village planned on former St. Joseph’s General Hospital site
A 156-bed Dementia Village for the Comox Valley took another step forward May 25 as Island Health announced a project development agreement with Providence Living for the project.
Town Hall to explain how VIHA’s cuts have hurt North Island patient care
North Island medical professionals will explain how VIHA’s removal of onsite clinical pathologists’ services in Campbell River — and eventually the Comox Valley? — has affected patient care
The Week: VIHA and province disrespect our hospital board, medical staff and the public
As the Vancouver Island Health Authority reduces health care services to north islanders and deflects accountability, the public looks to the Comox Strathcona Regional Hospital District board for advocacy
North Island hospital board hesitates to take advocacy role, despite rights and precedent
Should the Comox Strathcona Regional Hospital District board advocate for maintaining or upgrading health care services on the North Island? Some directors aren’t sure. But Discovery Islands Director Jim Abram says it’s a no-brainer
OPINION
The Week: VIHA and province disrespect our hospital board, medical staff and the public
As the Vancouver Island Health Authority reduces health care services to north islanders and deflects accountability, the public looks to the Comox Strathcona Regional Hospital District board for advocacy
The Week: VIHA and province disrespect our hospital board, medical staff and the public
As the Vancouver Island Health Authority reduces health care services to north islanders and deflects accountability, the public looks to the Comox Strathcona Regional Hospital District board for advocacy
The Week: March for our planet today, but who will take the big, bold steps we need?
The Comox Valley will march at 1 pm today for changes to slow down climate change. But are we really just giving lip service when bolder actions are needed to save the planet?
The Week: Where did the Attorney General go; and, Trudeau’s middle ‘class’
Has the BC Attorney General’s office may have changed its view of the Town of Comox’s desire to alter the Mack Laing Trust? How else to explain the last eight months of dead silence?
Did the Comox Town Council pay their CAO $350,000 just to go away? Why?
What is really going on within the Town of Comox? With several high-cost lawsuits and disgruntled public works employees, it’s clear that everyone is not generally happy
ENVIRONMENT
Father Charles Brandt honored by Canadian Museum of Nature
The Canadian Museum of Nature has given Father Charles Brandt their 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award. The Oyster River hermit was nominated by the Comox Valley Land Trust.
Father Charles Brandt honored by Canadian Museum of Nature
The Canadian Museum of Nature has given Father Charles Brandt their 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award. The Oyster River hermit was nominated by the Comox Valley Land Trust.
Maps will detail impact of sea level rise on Valley coastline
Detailed mapping by the Comox Valley Regional District will identify the coastal areas most vulnerable to sea level rise and provide richer data for engineers and future local government regulations and bylaw changes
Ocean farming: more food, less land, reduced GHG emissions
The climate crisis will force us to produce more food on less land while cutting greenhouse gas emissions. For Bren Smith, director of the non-profit group Greenwave, this transition means expanding our definition of farming to include the ocean
The Week: March for our planet today, but who will take the big, bold steps we need?
The Comox Valley will march at 1 pm today for changes to slow down climate change. But are we really just giving lip service when bolder actions are needed to save the planet?
POLITICS
3L Developments is back, and again asking to amend the Regional Growth Strategy
3L Developments Ltd. has returned to the Comox Valley Regional District to ask the Electoral Services Committee to push an RGS amendment on its behalf to the full board. That would clear the way for a new version of Riverwood
3L Developments is back, and again asking to amend the Regional Growth Strategy
3L Developments Ltd. has returned to the Comox Valley Regional District to ask the Electoral Services Committee to push an RGS amendment on its behalf to the full board. That would clear the way for a new version of Riverwood
Was there corruption in the Courtenay-Alberni Green Party nomination process?
Questions of impropriety at the Green Party of Canada nomination meeting in June erupted this week when one of the candidates went public with allegations that the vote was corrupted. But Mandolyn Jonasson’s larger concern is how the party tried to suppress her attempts to fix the mistakes
Courtenay-Alberni candidates address climate crisis in forum
At the only federal election forum in the Courtenay-Alberni riding focused strictly on the climate crisis, four of the five candidates showed up and answered questions from a panel of four and an audience of about 300 voters
Candidates to speak at 4th Person’s Day Lunch on Oct. 18
Federal election candidates will answer questions at the 4th annual Persons Day lunch on Oct. 18 at the Best Western Westerly Hotel celebrating three milestones in the journey to equity for Canadian women
