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Jacqueline Ronson

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Meet Tegwyn Hughes, The Discourse’s new community editor

She’s excited “to be accountable to a community of passionate readers who know what they want, and ask for it.”

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The Discourse wins SIX Canadian Online Publishing Awards

Our little newsroom brought home more awards than any other publication.

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Analysis: It’s time to prepare for Omicron disruptions

Good information and planning will ease the pandemic's impacts on families, schools, businesses and health-care systems.

Analysis: Omicron’s biggest threat is to our weakened public health system

Thinking about risk individually won’t cut it, now more than ever. Are we up to the challenge?

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Reporter’s Notebook: As COVID cases rise, here’s what you need to know

How Omicron is changing the game and what that means for holiday travel and gatherings.

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Weaving stories: A conversation with Coast Salish artist Qwiyahwult-hw, Stuart Pagaduan

The story behind the design for The Discourse’s 2021 limited-edition totes.

Plastic cones protect saplings planted in dense forest in North Cowichan Municipal Forest Reserve
Announcing ‘Forests for the Future’

Deeply rooted, solutions-focused stories about forests on Vancouver Island and beyond.

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North Cowichan review is a rare opportunity for Vancouver Island forests

Here’s what makes the municipal forest so interesting, unique and rare.

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In maps: Where are the proposed old-growth deferrals for Vancouver Island?

Here's where a panel of experts say old growth forests need urgent protection.

The Vancouver Island Motorsport Circuit sits ao the base of Mt. Prevost, near Duncan. Jacqueline Ronson/The Discourse
North Cowichan wins appeal in motorsport track dispute

The B.C. Court of Appeal found that the municipality was reasonable in denying a development permit for the expansion of the Vancouver Island Motorsport Circuit.