Ocean farming: more food, less land, reduced GHG emissions
The climate crisis will force us to produce more food on less land while cutting greenhouse gas emissions. For Bren Smith, director of the non-profit group Greenwave, this transition means expanding our definition of farming to include the ocean
The Week: March for our planet today, but who will take the big, bold steps we need?
The Comox Valley will march at 1 pm today for changes to slow down climate change. But are we really just giving lip service when bolder actions are needed to save the planet?
North Island hospital board hesitates to take advocacy role, despite rights and precedent
Should the Comox Strathcona Regional Hospital District board advocate for maintaining or upgrading health care services on the North Island? Some directors aren’t sure. But Discovery Islands Director Jim Abram says it’s a no-brainer
The Week: Where did the Attorney General go; and, Trudeau’s middle ‘class’
Has the BC Attorney General’s office may have changed its view of the Town of Comox’s desire to alter the Mack Laing Trust? How else to explain the last eight months of dead silence?
The Stolen Church now repaying history with new life in Merville
Who says historic Comox Valley buildings from the early 1900s can’t be fully restored and recommissioned for future generations? Not Craig Freeman, who points to the second relocation and recent restoration of St. Mary’s Church
Comox Valley climate activists join 1,700 discussion events worldwide
At a meeting with nearly 100 Comox Valley climate activists, Will Cole-Hamilton discussed global progress in solar and wind technologies, how the City of Courtenay has addressed climate change and why climate marches are so important
Petition put to BC Legislature: restore North Island pathology
North Island MLA Claire Trevena presented a petition signed by over 2,500 people to the BC Legislature Nov. 20 that calls for the return of onsite clinical pathologists’ services to the Campbell River Hospital and to investigate possible conflicts of interest within Island Health
Comox Valley to discuss the climate crisis on Wednesday, Nov. 20
The Comox Valley will join millions of people worldwide to talk about the reality of the climate crisis, what it means and what you can do. The local event will take place from 7 to 9 pm on Wednesday, Nov. 20 at the Comox United Church Hall
BC’s logging practices called out by Comox Valley group
Supporters of Save Our Forests Team – Comox Valley (SOFT-CV) rallied outside Claire Trevena’s office in Campbell River to protest the provincial government’s continued logging of the last stands of productive old-growth on Vancouver Island
Hospital district board debates advocacy role, doesn’t back off on retaining NI pathology
Should the Comox Strathcona Regional Hospital District advocate for health care services on behalf of its constituents? Or is the district’s role limited to funding 40 percent of selected capital projects?
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