After Nanaimo’s only warming centre suddenly closed, this organization stepped up
Within hours, RISEBRIDGE brought the community together to provide a low-barrier emergency warming centre, maintain fragile relationships and rebuild trust.
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These elementary school students are restoring neighbourhood waterways
School Water Stewards program helps students foster connection and responsibility to local streams, marshes and lakes.
What a judge’s ruling on homeless camps could mean for unhoused citizens of Nanaimo
After the B.C. Supreme Court ruled a Prince George homeless camp can stay, cities like Nanaimo need to ‘rethink why they’re doing,’ says law professor.
Matriarch orca’s death may explain J pod’s absence, this scientist says
While environmental factors like the decline in salmon likely played a role, the real ‘catastrophe’ may have been the end of her 106-year reign.
Ay Lelum-The Good House of Design: ‘That show has to go on.’
Community gathers to support second-generation Snuneymuxw design house in rebounding from fire.
Lessons from Vancouver Island’s 2021 grads
'I recognized that my mental health was more important than sitting at my desk writing a thousand discussion questions.'
A message from Lys Morton, The Discourse’s newest intern
'My goal in journalism is to heal and reshape how LGBTQ2+ stories are told in news spaces.’