Jesse Ketler, first woman to chair the Comox Valley Regional District Board
Cumberland Councillor Jesse Ketler will be the first woman to chair the Comox Valley Regional District board, and she defeated two male opponents to win the position
As VIHA moves toward medical centralization, North Island worries about risks to public
Island Health’s plan to centralize clinical pathologist services in Victoria has angered some members of the Comox-Strathcona Regional Hospital Board, destabilized the lab workforce and worries North Island doctors who depend on getting quick results for their patients
Curtis Road residents threaten legal action over sewage commission failure on odour issues
Rural Comox Valley residents have threatened legal action against the Courtenay-Comox Sewage Commission over noxious odours emanating from the treatment plant near their homes on Curtis Road
VIHA’S pathology plan: What’s at stake for patient care, lab technologists and assistants
Imagine your child on the North Island is deathly sick and needs a diagnosis urgently. Would you rather there was a general pathologist onsite at your hospital to make that diagnosis, or would you wait a day a few days for it to come from Victoria?
Patients, lab staff suffer from reduced pathology services at North Island hospitals
If Island Health executives get their way, the new Comox Valley Hospital could lose all of its onsite clinical pathologist services sometime next year, a move that area doctors and elected officials believe will further diminish patient care on the North Island. It’s already happened in Campbell River and wait times for results are getting longer
Maude Barlow: leading Canadian activist for the public’s right to water
Maude Barlow’s presentation today at the K’omoks Band Hall is not just another stop on the tour to promote her new book, Whose Water Is It, Anyway? The co-founder of the Council of Canadians and the Blue Planet Project is on a mission to sound the alarm about a global water crisis
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
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
North Island Hospital clinical pathology lab work threatened by VIHA, sign the petition
The Vancouver Island Health Authority plans to eliminate medical laboratory testing at the Comox Valley and Campbell River hospitals next year, but a group of citizens are fighting the change for better patient services
Open letter to Byron Horner, climate change questions he would have asked
An open letter to Conservative Byron Horner, who skipped a candidates forum on climate change
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
The Week: Island Health takeover for public safety, and Horner’s negative campaign
Island Health was right to take control of Comox Valley Seniors Village, and Retirement Concepts justification for staff shortages doesn’t hold up