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Oct 16, 2024 | 
thediscourse.ca | Cowichan Valley |Shalu Mehta
Content warning: This story mentions overdose, substance use, the toxic drug crisis and death. Please read with care. Find a list of local and general resources for support, harm reduction, emergencies and more at the bottom of this newsletter. Last month, The Discourse asked readers in the Cowichan Valley, Nanaimo and Comox Valley what they wanted local MLA candidates to address in the lead up to the B.C. election on Oct. 19. More than 350 readers responded to the survey.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
ladysmithchronicle.com | Cowichan Valley
Last week in this space we talked about the fire danger, and how we have to take the "extreme" label seriously and avoid doing things that could spark a blaze.
This includes things like not discarding your cigarette butts out car windows or just dropping them on the ground (first, the littering is gross, second, if there's dry grass or bushes or bark mulch it's a serious risk).
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
ladysmithchronicle.com | Cowichan Valley
It's dry out there. Really dry.
Yes, we're stating the obvious. And yet, some people still aren't taking it seriously enough.
We've had a number of close calls of late when it comes to fires in the Cowichan Valley.
The Sahtlam Fire Department is thanking two individuals who stopped at a brushfire along Highway 18 recently.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
ladysmithchronicle.com | Cowichan Valley
A Ladysmith man disappeared a little more than a year ago, and RCMP are renewing their call for the public's help for information related to his disappearance.
Christopher Massingham was last seen on June 27, 2023 when he was dropped off by a taxi in the area of Lawlor Road and 10th Street in Nanaimo. With no new leads, RCMP are hopeful someone will come forward with information.
Massingham was 53 when he went missing. He would now be 54.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
thediscourse.ca | Cowichan Valley |Kelly Black
Kelly Black is a researcher, writer, historian and collector of books and has taught B.C. and Canadian history at Vancouver Island University. What questions do you have about Cowichan Valley history? Send us an email and we’ll do our best to tackle them. Many museums and heritage sites on Vancouver Island feature displays about workers and the technology that aided resource extraction.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
chemainusvalleycourier.ca | Cowichan Valley
We must protect our ability to grow our own food.
A recent presentation by a land-use planner with the Ministry of Agriculture and Food to the Cowichan Valley Regional District was alarming.
Not only is just five per cent of land in the province in the Agricultural Land Reserve, but seven per cent of that five per cent is roads, water, and some federal land. Needless to say, the latter seven per cent can’t be farmed.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
chemainusvalleycourier.ca | Cowichan Valley
The Municipality of North Cowichan will receive $100,000 from the province to create more efficient development approvals processes for the building of new homes.
North Cowichan is among 38 local governments in B.C. that are receiving grants totalling $4.4 million in 2024 from the Local Government Development Approvals Program to help them speed up the construction of new homes.
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May 29, 2024 | 
thediscourse.ca | Cowichan Valley
Welcome to the 2024 Pride Guide! Is there anything you’d like us to add? Are there any stories you’d like us to tell? Send us an email at [email protected] and let us know!It’s Pride season again and this year, The Discourse Cowichan, Nanaimo and Comox Valley have joined forces to put together a Pride Guide for our communities. Below you’ll find local events as well as resources, organizations and relevant reporting that we’ve done over the years.
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
thediscourse.ca | Cowichan Valley |Jacqueline Ronson
This week, community newspaper giant Black Press Ltd. announced that it has filed for creditor protection in BC Supreme Court. At a hearing in Vancouver next week, the company will ask the court to approve a court-supervised process to sell the business, which can no longer afford to pay its debts. Black Press owns 94 newspapers in Canada, mostly in B.C. It owns nearly every newspaper on Vancouver Island, including the Cowichan Valley Citizen, the Nanaimo News Bulletin and the Comox Valley Record.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
thediscourse.ca | Shalu Mehta |Cowichan Valley
The team at The Discourse is leaping into a new year of in-depth community journalism. Our award-winning local reporting starts with listening to real people in our communities — that means you! From solutions and good news stories about people making a difference in the community, to accountability stories that dig into major issues, your input will make our journalism stronger.
