2024 Nanaimo Pride in photos
The 2024 Nanaimo Pride Parade featured bubbles, different flags, stickers and costumes and ended with a festival in the park.
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More than two dozen trees featured in Comox Valley Nature’s 2024 Trees of the Year list
Official guided walks are over until the fall, but community members can still tour the 27 trees found throughout the Comox Valley.
Tiny homes and RVs help ease the housing crisis. So why is the Regional District of Nanaimo cracking down on them?
Nanoose Bay Regional District of Nanaimo director called bylaw on a tiny home in his neighbourhood within hours of moving in.
Angela Sterritt on Unbroken and being a journalist in Canada
‘There's an Indigenous truth, and then there's the Canadian truth, and they're very, very different.’
Youth addiction services come to Vancouver Island
Orca Lelum Youth Wellness Centre is the first of its kind and will offer culturally relevant detox and treatment services.
‘You cry twice’: Fish farms go under the lens in new documentary
'Salmon Secrets' film investigates how fish farms are pushing wild salmon to the brink of extinction.
International students ‘exhausted’ from carrying the financial burden of their universities
International students at Vancouver Island University say they don't understand why their education costs nearly five times that of a domestic student’s.
Country music star Aaron Pritchett is about to get ‘Liquored Up’ in new cross-Canada tour
'I'm just happy I am where I am. And I don't need any more than what I got.'
Free speech, the Online News Act, and how it affects Canadian media
Commentator Jen Gerson speaks at Vancouver Island University about 'free speech in the digital age' to a packed crowd
‘Rewriting my colonial script’: Dr. Laura Ann Cranmer’s push to reclaim her story through theatre
'Scenes from the Nanaimo Indian Hospital' features the experiences of three girls from different backgrounds and languages.
More than two dozen trees featured in Comox Valley Nature’s 2024 Trees of the Year list
Official guided walks are over until the fall, but community members can still tour the 27 trees found throughout the Comox Valley.
Tiny homes and RVs help ease the housing crisis. So why is the Regional District of Nanaimo cracking down on them?
Nanoose Bay Regional District of Nanaimo director called bylaw on a tiny home in his neighbourhood within hours of moving in.
Angela Sterritt on Unbroken and being a journalist in Canada
‘There's an Indigenous truth, and then there's the Canadian truth, and they're very, very different.’
Youth addiction services come to Vancouver Island
Orca Lelum Youth Wellness Centre is the first of its kind and will offer culturally relevant detox and treatment services.
‘You cry twice’: Fish farms go under the lens in new documentary
'Salmon Secrets' film investigates how fish farms are pushing wild salmon to the brink of extinction.
International students ‘exhausted’ from carrying the financial burden of their universities
International students at Vancouver Island University say they don't understand why their education costs nearly five times that of a domestic student’s.
Country music star Aaron Pritchett is about to get ‘Liquored Up’ in new cross-Canada tour
'I'm just happy I am where I am. And I don't need any more than what I got.'
Free speech, the Online News Act, and how it affects Canadian media
Commentator Jen Gerson speaks at Vancouver Island University about 'free speech in the digital age' to a packed crowd
‘Rewriting my colonial script’: Dr. Laura Ann Cranmer’s push to reclaim her story through theatre
'Scenes from the Nanaimo Indian Hospital' features the experiences of three girls from different backgrounds and languages.