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Pay More, Get Less – That’s The Grocery Business In Canada

The grocery bill for the average family of four spiked $1,065 last year.

Realtors Are Taking a Cold Shower

1.5 percentage point jump in the cost of borrowing money helps cool insane Vancouver Island real estate market.

I Bet Your Wages Haven’t Gone Up This Much.

The top-100 CEOs earns 243 times what Canadian workers make

The Grassroots Island Group That Got Us Free Birth Control

After 7 years of advocacy, free birth control will finally be a reality.

BC Budgets Billions for Housing, Details Lacking

Economist says the budget does the right thing by investing in infrastructure and social programs at a time when the economy is slowing

Campbell River Council Reverses Drug Ban Bylaw

Ban has been repealed, now we'll find out what the council will do instead

New Marine Protected Areas Are A Win-Win

Studies show that MPAs actually create jobs by enhancing fisheries in surrounding waters

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What We Love

What We Love: Low Angle Light on the E&N Railway

Sunbeams break through, illuminating a railway lost to time and history.

The Take

Show Me the Money? No Falcon Way!

BC Liberal leader’s creative accounting continues as $125K of expenses evaporate

BC’s New $50 Million Fund May Help Logging Companies, But What About Our Forests?

The program will increase the use of low-value fibre, but does it keep unsustainable practices going?

Tik Tok, Atomic Scientists Say Doomsday Clock Dangerously Close to Midnight

Canadian fossil fuel lobbyists cash in on war and destruction to push for more drilling and fracking

Our Home

Tourism Money To Right A Historic Wrong

For less than the price of a cup of coffee, tourists can help local First Nations

Pay to Play In Mowachaht/Muchalaht Territory

Nowadays hundreds of people travel to Yuquot to hike the Nootka Trail

Paper Excellence Isn’t Just Any Old Forest Corporation

This company has quietly become Canada's biggest pulp and paper producer

Local Heroes

Forget Fines – Nanaimo Downtown Business Owners Have A Different Approach

Local businesses are serving up humanity, not fines. What if the provincial government did the same?

Ucluelet Grad Leads the Charge Toward Cancer Cure

His high school peers voted him "Most Academic." They were right.

Community Shows That Standing Up For One Another Works

Ministry said community pressure helped stop deportation

R 'n R

Battle of the Breweries, Island-Style

One-Of-A-Kind Sporting Match to support the Dawn Till Dusk Homelessness Society

Using Virtual Reality To Save Reality

Nothing can beat experiencing the real thing...right?

The Minister Got It Right – Time To Pack Up and Move On Fish Farmers

By closing 15 fish farms, Minister Joyce Murray put the precautionary principle to work when wild salmon need it

New Ways

Too Often Women Aren’t Taken As Serious Leaders, Valley Leaders Reflect

Comox Valley Women’s Business Network is keeping the ball rolling

New Wellness Centre Coming to Ty-Histanis: Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation Re-purposes Trailers for Community Recovery

"We call it a helping house. It’s not a homeless shelter."

Checking This App Could Prevent a Collision

Whale sightings? There's an app for that.

COVID

The Barkley Sound Bacteria That Cures COVID

Bacteria sourced from Barkley Sound is a top contender for a new COVID cure

People Power Fuel’s Long COVID Study

People living with debilitating symptoms for months after infection

Feds Forget Local Businesses Who Stepped Up For The Cause

This move could leave us high and dry the next time a crisis hits

Staying Well

Experts Say Campbell River Council Got it Wrong on Drugs

"We still haven’t made a dent in the crisis."

Doctor Faces Disciplinary Action After Sounding Alarm

ER doc turns to Twitter to ask for help and call for his boss's resignation

New Funding Calms Some, But NorthIsle ER Doc Calls For Resignations

Mayors Say $30M is a Win, Doctors Have Serious Doubts

Mount Waddington Regional District

Meet The Mariner Who Moves Solintula’s Most Precious Cargo

But who will take the ship's wheel next?

Island Medic Dies in Ukraine Protecting Fellow Soldier

Tsekhmisrenko went to serve in Ukraine as soon as fighting erupted

Island Health, Ministry Dragging Feet on NorthIsle Healthcare Crisis

“We can't afford to let this collapse because people will die," ER doc warns

Strathcona Regional District

Sign Up for Summer Fun

Youth summer camps will focus on both learning and fun

Students Planting Seeds for the Future

Greenways' Junior Streamkeepers Seed Starting Program is bringing kids back to nature!

Bones Of Crows – A Stunning Film You Don’t Want To Miss

A cinematic masterpiece - with a compelling story - made right here in BC

Quadra & Cortes

Taxing Tourists to Support Locals

Extra dollars from short term rentals will be put towards long term housing for Cortes

Bad Actor in an Even Worse Disguise

You can't make this stuff up

Typical Schoolyard? Not anymore!

Quadra Island Elementary is getting a makeover

Sayward

Is 18 Too Young For Politics?

Definitely not on the NorthIsle

Little Human at the Centre of a Very Big Controversy

Do you even exist if the government can't write your name?

In Memory of the “Island Star”

Brent Fedirchuk was a skilled pilot and so much more

Woss

Local Heroes: Woss Volunteer Fire Department

If anyone deserves a shout out, it's them

Are We Setting Ourselves Up for More Ghost Towns?

It's a quiet fire year, but they're not all like this

What We Love: The Full Moon Over Woss

It's like Halloween in April