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COVID-19: How are people on the streets coping?

By David Minkow ● Cowichan Valley ● March 26, 2020

Hungry, afraid, and nowhere to go. Homeless people in Cowichan share their struggles.

Latest in Cowichan Valley

Photo of two women wearing masks and holing up bottles of clear liquid. They offered volunteer help for the COVID-19 coronavirus response.

COVID-19 response: 5 ways you can help

By Jacqueline Ronson ● Cowichan Valley ● March 24, 2020

Want to volunteer or donate? Here are current calls for help in Cowichan.

COVID-19 closures leave some homeless people out in the cold

By David Minkow ● Cowichan Valley ● March 21, 2020

How do you keep people without a home healthy in a pandemic? Local service providers face a tough balancing act.

chalk drawing on pavement reads "be kind"

In Cowichan, let’s all support each other

By Jacqueline Ronson ● Cowichan Valley ● March 18, 2020

The world has changed. It will take all of us working together to adapt to the new one.

Image shows a coastline with a sharp contrast between dark land and light water and sky.

Why are First Nations and non-First Nations communities so separate?

By Jared Qwustenuxun Williams ● Cowichan Valley ● March 10, 2020

A reader sent a question about social distance in Cowichan. I’ll do my best to answer.

Why we want Jared Qwustenuxun Williams to write for The Discourse Cowichan

By Jacqueline Ronson ● Cowichan Valley ● March 9, 2020

The past few weeks have made it clear why we need strong Indigenous voices in Canadian media. You can help.

Dr. Elizabeth Plant is an addiction physician in the Cowichan Valley. She recently completed an addiction medicine fellowship with the BC Centre on Substance Use. David Minkow/The Discourse Cowichan

The hidden costs of overdoses

By David Minkow ● Cowichan Valley ● March 3, 2020

Toxic brain injuries are a hidden epidemic in the opioid overdose crisis, a Cowichan Valley doctor says.

Clara Rempel files tax returns for homeless people in Duncan

Tax refunds for the homeless, with a side of hope

By David Minkow ● Cowichan Valley ● February 27, 2020

Clara Rempel makes homelessness less taxing by bringing her services to people living on the streets of Duncan.

Coal strike Militiamen march down 1st Avenue in Ladysmith in August, 1913. Ladysmith & District Historical Society

Remembering Ladysmith’s great coal mining strike

By Jacqueline Ronson ● Cowichan Valley ● February 25, 2020

More than a century ago, coal miners across Vancouver Island rose up to fight for safer working conditions. That past still echoes today.

How can we tell better stories about homelessness?

By Jacqueline Ronson ● Cowichan Valley ● February 18, 2020

Cowichan residents gathered in Duncan to discuss how journalists can do a better job telling stories about homelessness.

COVID-19: How are people on the streets coping?

Latest in Cowichan Valley

COVID-19 response: 5 ways you can help

COVID-19 closures leave some homeless people out in the cold

In Cowichan, let’s all support each other

Why are First Nations and non-First Nations communities so separate?

Why we want Jared Qwustenuxun Williams to write for The Discourse Cowichan

The hidden costs of overdoses

Tax refunds for the homeless, with a side of hope

Remembering Ladysmith’s great coal mining strike

How can we tell better stories about homelessness?

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