The Week: Comox Valley tax rates, plastic bags and pro golfers
The Week: Courtenay Councillor whimpers about taxes, but Comox has a higher increase; there’s a climate emergency but the Valley is slow on the draw
The Week: Vexation without representation plagues Comox Valley rural areas
It’s reasonable to compensate rural areas for hosting city infrastructure, especially when it stinks. Notre Dame vs. Old Growth Trees. And, looking at the big picture of the Comox Lake Watershed
The Week: North Island health care privatization marches on
Good morning, it’s a great day in the Comox Valley. Let’s praise the Comox Strathcona Regional Hospital Board for finally standing up to Island Health’s steady march toward privatization of health care
The Week: bizarre backstory; great news on sewage planning
Good morning. We’re writing about the tragic backstory of a water valve, the state of happiness in Comox, new (and thankfully) long-term sewerage plans and the strength of women like Jody Wilson-Raybould speaking truth to power
Comox must apologize for breaches of Mack Laing Trust
Comox Mayor Russ Arnott casts lone vote against out of court conversations to settle dispute over the Mack Laing Trust. But the town must apologize for its historic wrongdoing.
The Week: housing issues, sure, but this study is nonsense
The Comox Valley has housing affordability issues, but a recent study sensationalizing our problems by an obscure website is so seriously flawed that it amounts to nonsense
The Week: Where’s the moral leadership on Comox Council?
It's hard to see the forest for the trees sometimes / George Le Masurier photo By George Le Masurier he silence of Comox Town Council members for the plight of Mariner apartment dwellers is deafening. A...
The Week: No 29th Street bridge? Check. Only 60 ‘new’ beds? Check
You do the math: Did we get 151 “new” long-term care beds, or 130, or just 60? Who wanted a bridge at 29th Street anyway. And, what is Rod Nichol up to?
The Week: Providence, Dutcyvich, Socialism and Blueberries
Providence takes ownership of The Viewa, David Dutcyvich is not making friends or influencing people and Comox Valley blueberries are budding dangerously in unseasonably warm weather