Providence, Golden Life get new Comox Valley long-term beds
Golden Life Management Corporation and Providence Residential Care Community society will share the Comox Valley’s 151 long-awaited additional residential care beds.
Are Neonicotinoids really just the new DDT?
Scientists have linked both the collapse of bee populations and the stunning decline in bird and bat numbers to a new generation of insecticides called neonicotinoids.
Directors challenge legitimacy of advanced recycling technologies
New directors of the Comox-Strathcona Solid Waste Management Board have called into question the legitimacy of a special committee exploring new waste-to-energy (WTE) technologies.
Bishop gifts St. Joe’s Comox site to Providence Health Care
Providence Health Care has acquired The Views at St. Joe’s and formed a new independent entity devoted solely to seniors care. It accelerates movement toward St. Joe’s vision of a dementia village
Nine things you need to know about the Unist’ot’en blockade
In this article, Zoe Ducklow, a reporter and photographer for The Tyee, explains nine things you need to know about the blockade by the Unist’ot’en Clan, one of five clans of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation.
The snow is falling … but it won’t last
By George Le Masurier now starting falling in the Comox Valley today, and forecasters expect between 5 cm to 20 cm to fall throughout the day. But enjoy the snow while it's here. It will start raining overnight, and...
CIC Director Greg Baute hopes to redefine cannabis breeding
Greg Baute, the director of breeding and genetics at the pioneering Cannabis Innovation Centre in Comox, is a scientist. But to fully understand Baute, you need to know that there’s another, equally powerful side to his scientific mind.
The Week: Tolls on the Fifth Street Bridge, and quieter coffee shops, please
The Week: Should we put tolls on Courtenay’s Fifth Street Bridge? And, can we have quieter coffee shops, please?
Valley home values jump, but may not reflect market
The property assessment notice that arrived in your mailbox this week may not reflect the current real estate market, according to the Vancouver Island Real Estate Board (VIREB).
Sponging up the rain, taxing impervious surfaces — what other communities are doing
This is the sixth in a series of articles about how urban stormwater runoff has negatively impacted Comox Valley waterways, what local governments are doing to address the issues and what other communities have done.
These environment stories from 2018 could give us hope
Climate science reports released in 2018 all pointed to impending catastrophes. But there was also good news to savor, some of it originating right here at home.
The meaning of Guernica explained in a subway
Baffled by the imagery of Guernica? An art critic explains Picasso’s famous anti-war painting to random people in a New York subway.