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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.

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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.

black and white photo shows a mule and miner in an underground mine

The role of animals in Vancouver Island’s early logging and mining history

By Kelly Black ● Nanaimo ● June 27, 2024

Animals were key to resource extraction operations on Vancouver Island throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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.

Meet Jordan Kawchuk, The Discourse’s new Cowichan Valley reporter

By Jordan Kawchuk ● Cowichan Valley ● June 13, 2024

A longtime storyteller, Jordan is thrilled to now call the Cowichan Valley home and collaborate with its vibrant community.

Development proposals on both sides of the Cable Bay Trail have Cedar residents mobilizing in opposition

By David Minkow ● Nanaimo ● June 6, 2024

The Save Cable Bay group is calling on local governments to make the area a park.

Youth holding signs and waving rainbow flags are pictured from behind, lining a sidewalk along the left of the photo. Meanwhile, another youth walking with their bike and wearing a helmet walks to the right of the line, towards the camera. The photo focus is on a rainbow flag held by someone on the left. The background, including the person with the bike, is blurred.

Your 2024 Pride Guide for Cowichan, Nanaimo and the Comox Valley

By The Discourse ● Cowichan Valley ● May 29, 2024

Check out local Pride events, plus resources and organizations for 2SLGBTQQIA+ and allies.

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Shipbreaking

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

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

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The ancient story of Swuq’us

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Overdose Emergency

Hilary Nester, a social service worker student, burns a heart with a name of someone they were close to who died from the toxic drug crisis at a Grief Fire event at Vancouver Island University on April 14, 2026. Photo by Mick Sweetman / The Discourse.

Nanaimo’s toxic drug emergency at 10 years

An incredulous Nanaimo City Councillor Hilary Eastmure responds to a comment from Nanaimo Mayor Leonard Krog during a debate on provincial drug policy during the Dec. 1, 2025 city council meeting. Screenshot courtesy of the City of Nanaimo.

Nanaimo city council votes down proposed drug policy letter

Photo of Sarah Lovegrove standing outside the doors to the Vancouver Island Conference Centre where Nanaimo City Council meets wearing a Nanaimo Area Network of Drug users shirt,

Motion to close Nanaimo’s Overdose Prevention Site withdrawn

Activists carry a mock coffin at the march for International Overdose Awareness Day in Nanaimo on Aug. 29, 2025. Photo by Mick Sweetman / The Discourse.

‘Like a bomb dropping’: Safer supply changes leave patients struggling for stability

Photo of a woman standing in front of a fence with metal hearts bearing the names of people who died from overdoses.

Drop in 2024 Nanaimo overdose deaths still ‘a fraction’ of overall trend upwards

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Sudden changes to safer supply program a ‘huge mistake,’ says Nanaimo patient

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