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After pandemic, keep schools open all year Now that we鈥檝e begun to flatten the curve in the COVID-19 pandemic, there is talk of re-opening schools.

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every local business 鈥� the ones owned and operated by your friends and neighbours. There are thousands of stories about the impact of the pandemic on business; here is one.

Donate online at RapidReliefFund.ca . More options below. Vancity is getting behind the Rapid Relief Fund with a $100,000 matching challenge. As soon as the fund rises by $100,000, Vancity will donate $100,000 of its own, said CEO Tamara Vrooman.

The Sidney Street Market has been cancelled for this year, after organizers were advised to cancel or postpone summer events.

Sidney and North Saanich have joined other municipalities that are either eliminating or reducing property tax increases this year in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Sidney council voted 6-1 Monday to cut this year鈥檚 tax increase to zero from 1.

Tubing has been banned on Cowichan Lake and on the Cowichan River this summer to help combat the pandemic. Thousands of visitors typically show up every year for an adventure on the water.

We have asked local business people to describe how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting them. A commentary by the owner of聽Trek Bicycle Store Victoria.

Brandon Heyer鈥檚 apprentice carpentry students would typically be spending this semester building a tiny home 鈥� a pint-sized domicile.

Thomas Homer-Dixon studies the complexity of things. It鈥檚 what led the professor to write big-brain books like The Ingenuity Gap: How We Can Solve Problems of the Future and The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization.

Alert Bay Mayor Dennis Buchanan struggles to talk about the first COVID-19 death on Cormorant Island under his watch, and a local state of emergency. 鈥淚t鈥檚 tough,鈥� says Buchanan, 72, stopping to compose himself.