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Canada Election 2021 Cowichan-Malahat-Langford forum

Election 2021: Your questions for Cowichan-Malahat-Langford candidates, answered

By Jacqueline Ronson ● Cowichan Valley ● September 10, 2021

The Discourse hosted a virtual forum with major party candidates, and readers helped guide the discussion.

Federal election 2021

SURVEY: What should top the federal election agenda?

By Jacqueline Ronson ● Vancouver Island ● August 18, 2021

Smokejumpers parattack Duncan BC

In a first for Vancouver Island, smokejumpers parachute down to fight Mount Prevost wildfire

By Jacqueline Ronson & Philip McLachlan ● Cowichan Valley ● August 7, 2021

BC Wildfire Service plans aggressive attack on Saturday, Aug. 7.

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By listening, ‘you can help us with the pain.’

By Jacqueline Ronson ● Cowichan Valley ● July 24, 2021

Penelakut Elders led a virtual listening circle on healing from residential ‘schools.’

A map shows the placement of Teal-Jones' forestry license in the Fairy Creek area on Vancouver Island, it's shaped like a large triangle.

Could conservationists buy a portion of Fairy Creek to protect it?

By Jacqueline Ronson ● Vancouver Island ● June 23, 2021

We’re answering reader questions as part of our Fairy Creek pop-up news coverage.

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Lake Cowichan Community Services urges support for expansion project

By Jacqueline Ronson ● Cowichan Valley ● June 22, 2021

The Town of Lake Cowichan will hold a virtual public hearing on Tuesday, June 22.

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Mosaic unveils logging plans near Youbou and Meade Creek

By Jacqueline Ronson ● Cowichan Valley ● June 18, 2021

These maps show the location of four planned cutblocks, to be logged between 2021 and 2023.

Cowichan This Week: Keep afloat

By Jacqueline Ronson ● Cowichan Valley ● June 17, 2021

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Cowichan This Week: Come together

By Jacqueline Ronson ● Cowichan Valley ● June 11, 2021

Updates on old growth, North Cowichan won’t prevent mobile home development, plus more local news and events.

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Cowichan This Week: Remembering 215 children

By Jacqueline Ronson ● Cowichan Valley ● June 3, 2021

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Q&A: Lawyer speaks on groundbreaking Anti-SLAPP case against Union Bay shipbreaking company

Union Bay locals await next steps after controversial shipbreaking lease cancelled

Deep Water Recovery fined more than $46K in relation to effluent discharge into Baynes Sound

Deep Water Recovery executives say shipbreaking operations aren’t polluting Union Bay

Quw'utsun Stories

The story of S-hwu-hwa’us and Qul-lhanumutsun

Sta’lo’ Mustimuhw: A story of the river people

The story of Sheshuq’um, the monster at Octopus Point

The ancient story of Swuq’us

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Deep Dive: It Takes a Village

Nanaimo Affordable Housing Society name change to Ballenas ‘in discussion’ for years,’ says CEO

Reporter Julie Chadwick and advocate Roxy Noble sit at a table looking out at participants during a speaking session

10 ways to better support tenants with vulnerabilities due to income, age or disabilities

‘I want it to stop’: Tenants and advocates allege bullying by non-profit housing provider

A building entrance way shows the words Corlett Place

Q and A: What are vulnerable tenants rights in non-profit housing?

A four storey building stands tall from the opposite side of the street as cars go by.

Who will protect low-income seniors from dying in extreme heat?

A blonde senior raises a hand a knock on the front door of a patio-style complex.

Seniors left in distress — or dead — for days in Nanaimo Affordable Housing Society units

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