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Two women wearing purple shirts for international overdose awareness day hold a drum that has a purple ribbon on it.

Overdose Awareness Day brings community together to better understand the toxic drug crisis

By Jordan Kawchuk ● Cowichan Valley ● September 6, 2024

Saving lives, understanding overdose and shedding stigma were the goals of the day.

An enormous wooden hockey stick bouncing a giant puck is attached to the exterior of an arena.

Satire | A fond farewell to the World’s Largest Hockey Stick

By Jordan Kawchuk ● Cowichan Valley ● August 22, 2024

Stick will be turned into souvenirs, and its memory will live on.

A wide vista of a blue lake surrounded by green trees and a mountain

Q&A: How do wildfires impact our watersheds?

By Jordan Kawchuk ● Cowichan Valley ● August 15, 2024

A conversation with Cowichan-based ecologist Erik Piikkila.

A man in a baseball cap hands a sandwich wrapped in butcher paper to an unseen customer from a white food truck window.

I ate from 10 Cowichan Valley food trucks in one day

By Jordan Kawchuk ● Cowichan Valley ● August 1, 2024

The community is abundant with creative chefs, and those working at Cowichan Valley food trucks are no exception.

A woman in a green top smiles alongside a woman in traditional Cowichan clothing in front of background of Indigenous art

Long-awaited youth shelter coming to Cowichan Valley

By Jordan Kawchuk ● Cowichan Valley ● July 25, 2024

The Youth Emergency Shelter pilot project will offer programming, support and outreach for vulnerable unhoused young people.

A white, two-storey old school building with a red roof stands under a blue sky.

Providence Farm celebrates 45 years as a nature-based therapeutic centre

By Jordan Kawchuk ● Cowichan Valley ● July 18, 2024

The Duncan society created a ‘radical brave space’ for those who were not easily accepted elsewhere

Zoe Lauckner, executive director of Cowichan Valley Youth Services sits on an office couch, looking serious.

‘Absolutely devastated’: Cowichan youth program cut after federal government pulls funding

By Jordan Kawchuk ● Cowichan Valley ● July 11, 2024

The Youth Employment Mentorship Program has helped hundreds of young people on a new path of life for almost 20 years.

B.C. Minister of Children and Family Development, Grace Lore; Federal Minister of Indigenous Services, Patty Hajdu; and Quw’utsun Chief Cindy Daniels hold up the signed agreements from a table on a stage. They smile for the cameras.

Cowichan Tribes signs historic agreement to reclaim child and family services

By Jordan Kawchuk ● Cowichan Valley ● July 5, 2024

The agreement supports the implementation of Quw’utsun laws, generational teachings and values for the benefit of Quw’utsun children and families.

People walk along and hold a giant Pride Progress flag in the Cowichan Valley Pride Walk

In photos: Cowichan Valley Pride Walk 2024

By Jordan Kawchuk ● Cowichan Valley ● June 27, 2024

Downtown Duncan came alive with Pride as hundreds turned out to celebrate 2SLGBTQQIA+ rights and the community.

Much needed expansion underway for Cowichan Valley Basket Society

By Jordan Kawchuk ● Cowichan Valley ● June 20, 2024

The upgrade proposal comes at a time when food insecurity in the region keeps climbing.

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Overdose Awareness Day brings community together to better understand the toxic drug crisis

Satire | A fond farewell to the World’s Largest Hockey Stick

Q&A: How do wildfires impact our watersheds?

I ate from 10 Cowichan Valley food trucks in one day

Long-awaited youth shelter coming to Cowichan Valley

Providence Farm celebrates 45 years as a nature-based therapeutic centre

‘Absolutely devastated’: Cowichan youth program cut after federal government pulls funding

Cowichan Tribes signs historic agreement to reclaim child and family services

In photos: Cowichan Valley Pride Walk 2024

Much needed expansion underway for Cowichan Valley Basket Society

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

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

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

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

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