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Our Community: $1M for Nanaimo cancer centre, Community Days at museum

Our Community: $1M for Nanaimo cancer centre, Community Days at museum

The company, which owns gas stations and liquor stores in the mid-Island region, will match donations to the facility up to $1 million
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sa国际传媒's logging industry is seeking a wildfire 'hero' narrative

sa国际传媒's logging industry is seeking a wildfire 'hero' narrative

sa国际传媒 and Canadian forestry associations aim to tell a story that places them as the 'hero' in a fight against wildfires. One critic says the strategy is 'mendacious and dangerous.'
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David Sovka: Why the health-care system needs more Georges (please never, ever retire)

David Sovka: Why the health-care system needs more Georges (please never, ever retire)

My doctor 鈥� let鈥檚 call him 鈥淕eorge鈥� because that is his real name 鈥� provides professional services and expert opinions, such as: 鈥淗ave you gained weight?鈥� and refers me to specialists who keep me alive
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Trevor Hancock: Our 鈥榠gnore-ant鈥� elites blindly adhere to 'business as usual'

Trevor Hancock: Our 鈥榠gnore-ant鈥� elites blindly adhere to 'business as usual'

Many of our so-called leaders don鈥檛 want to change because they get so much benefit 鈥� wealth, power, status 鈥� from the way things are
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Sweater season: A documentary about the iconic Cowichan knitwear is up for a screen award

Sweater season: A documentary about the iconic Cowichan knitwear is up for a screen award

The Cowichan Sweater: Our Knitted Legacy has been nominated for the Best Documentary Program award at this year鈥檚 Canadian Screen Awards
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Patricia Coppard: Imagine if motor-vehicle drivers behaved like some cyclists

Patricia Coppard: Imagine if motor-vehicle drivers behaved like some cyclists

Choosing to cycle rather than drive is super-awesome, but if your aggressive riding is keeping others off the supposedly all-ages-and-abilities trails and lanes, there鈥檚 really no net gain
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Monique Keiran: Growlers' noise obnoxious for us, but could be harming Whidbey Islanders

Monique Keiran: Growlers' noise obnoxious for us, but could be harming Whidbey Islanders

Researchers have found about two-thirds of residents on Whidbey and Camano islands were exposed to potentially harmful levels of noise from the Boeing EA-18G Growler aircraft
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David Sovka: That upsetting, high-pitched shrieking noise is for your own good

David Sovka: That upsetting, high-pitched shrieking noise is for your own good

The federal government has just launched the Canadian Earthquake Early Warning system, which I understand to be some kind of early-warning system for earthquakes in sa国际传媒
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Recognize any of these people? Photo albums donated to book sale by mistake

Recognize any of these people? Photo albums donated to book sale by mistake

The sa国际传媒 Book Sale collected thousands of boxes and bags of donated books, along with photo albums and other items that were donated by mistake.
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Patricia Coppard: Working remotely is the horse that got out of the barn

Patricia Coppard: Working remotely is the horse that got out of the barn

If we鈥檙e going to lure people back to the office, we better talk up the benefits: people to chat with that you鈥檙e not related to and someone else cleaning the bathroom
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