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Carl Olsen addresses protestors who oppose the Malahat Safety Improvement Project at the Victoria Legislature.

“You kill the salmon, you kill the orca”: Protestors push back against Malahat highway improvement project

By Eric Richards ● Cowichan Valley ● November 6, 2025

For three years, protestors have been calling on the province to rethink a highway improvement project that could threaten salmon runs and the ecosystem they rely on.

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Gitxsan community gathered on Gitanmaax reserve in Hazelton, B.C. on Oct. 16 to stop MCFD social workers from taking child into ‘care’

Gitxsan community stops B.C. social workers from taking child back into ‘care’

By Jenessa Joy Klukas ● Uncategorized ● October 20, 2021

‘We’re sick and tired of generation after generation being lost in the system and not knowing who they are and never coming home,’ says Kolin Sutherland-Wilson.

In photos: Langford students craft Coast Salish drums

By Katłįà (Catherine) Lafferty, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter ● Uncategorized ● April 7, 2021

Students worked on a drum-making project that will be enjoyed for years to come

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A gold lining in this dark cloud

By Melissa Villeneuve ● Uncategorized ● May 15, 2020

How the Lethbridge Soup Kitchen has adapted to the Covid-19 crisis and has identified new ways to assist the community

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Research notes: Police and mental health in Canada

By Jacqueline Ronson ● Uncategorized ● May 31, 2019

Store responses to our investigation into Indigenous-themed souvenirs

By Robin Perelle & Francesca Fionda ● Uncategorized ● May 21, 2019

Listening to women in the Cowichan Valley

By Jacqueline Ronson ● Uncategorized ● March 15, 2019

What the Discourse team heard at the International Women’s Day festival, in photos.

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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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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

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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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