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...
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...
Town creates confusion, rift over Mack Laing process
The Town of Comox’s self-imposed period of reconsideration about the future of Mack Laing Park has created division not unity, and a growing rift on the issue among town councillors.
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
Decision time looming for North Island Green Party
North Island-Powell River Green Party members have vetted candidates for the upcoming October federal election
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...
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.
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.
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
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.