For almost 100 years, the 1st Nanaimo Scouts Hut has been the meeting place for Scouts to develop skills, make new friends and contribute to the community. Now after a fire and break-in, the future of the historical hut is uncertain. The log cabin, an official heritage building, was first built in 1926 by four teachers who wanted to give back to the Scouting community. The hut, located at Comox Gyro Park is the base for the 1st Nanaimo Scout Group, which offers Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Venturers a...
Oct 30, 2024•8 min
With Election Day weeks ahead, the Vancouver Island University Students’ Union is encouraging students to get out and vote. In addition to its Generation Vote Now campaign, the VIU Students’ Union (VIUSU) is hosting an All Candidates Forum for students to learn more about who their local candidates are. Caitlin Kellendonk is the Director of External Relations for VIUSU and a fourth-year student studying Sociology. She is leading the Generation Vote Now campaign at VIU targeting first-time and yo...
Oct 25, 2024•5 min
With Election Day weeks ahead, the Vancouver Island University Students’ Union is encouraging students to get out and vote. In addition to its Generation Vote Now campaign, the VIU Students’ Union (VIUSU) is hosting an All Candidates Forum for students to learn more about who their local candidates are. Caitlin Kellendonk is the Director of External Relations for VIUSU and a fourth-year student studying Sociology. She is leading the Generation Vote Now campaign at VIU targeting first-time and yo...
Oct 24, 2024•4 min
With Election Day weeks ahead, the Vancouver Island University Students’ Union is encouraging students to get out and vote. In addition to its Generation Vote Now campaign, the VIU Students’ Union (VIUSU) is hosting an All Candidates Forum for students to learn more about who their local candidates are. Caitlin Kellendonk is the Director of External Relations for VIUSU and a fourth-year student studying Sociology. She is leading the Generation Vote Now campaign at VIU targeting first-time and yo...
Oct 18, 2024•6 min
With Election Day weeks ahead, the Vancouver Island University Students’ Union is encouraging students to get out and vote. In addition to its Generation Vote Now campaign, the VIU Students’ Union (VIUSU) is hosting an All Candidates Forum for students to learn more about who their local candidates are. Caitlin Kellendonk is the Director of External Relations for VIUSU and a fourth-year student studying Sociology. She is leading the Generation Vote Now campaign at VIU targeting first-time and yo...
Oct 17, 2024•8 min
With Election Day weeks ahead, the Vancouver Island University Students’ Union is encouraging students to get out and vote. In addition to its Generation Vote Now campaign, the VIU Students’ Union (VIUSU) is hosting an All Candidates Forum for students to learn more about who their local candidates are. Caitlin Kellendonk is the Director of External Relations for VIUSU and a fourth-year student studying Sociology. She is leading the Generation Vote Now campaign at VIU targeting first-time and yo...
Oct 17, 2024•5 min
With Election Day weeks ahead, the Vancouver Island University Students’ Union is encouraging students to get out and vote. In addition to its Generation Vote Now campaign, the VIU Students’ Union (VIUSU) is hosting an All Candidates Forum for students to learn more about who their local candidates are. Caitlin Kellendonk is the Director of External Relations for VIUSU and a fourth-year student studying Sociology. She is leading the Generation Vote Now campaign at VIU targeting first-time and yo...
Oct 11, 2024•11 min
With Election Day weeks ahead, the Vancouver Island University Students’ Union is encouraging students to get out and vote. In addition to its Generation Vote Now campaign, the VIU Students’ Union (VIUSU) is hosting an All Candidates Forum for students to learn more about who their local candidates are. Caitlin Kellendonk is the Director of External Relations for VIUSU and a fourth-year student studying Sociology. She is leading the Generation Vote Now campaign at VIU targeting first-time and yo...
Oct 11, 2024•11 min
With Election Day weeks ahead, the Vancouver Island University Students’ Union is encouraging students to get out and vote. In addition to its Generation Vote Now campaign, the VIU Students’ Union (VIUSU) is hosting an All Candidates Forum for students to learn more about who their local candidates are. Caitlin Kellendonk is the Director of External Relations for VIUSU and a fourth-year student studying Sociology. She is leading the Generation Vote Now campaign at VIU targeting first-time and yo...
Oct 04, 2024•5 min
With Election Day weeks ahead, the Vancouver Island University Students’ Union is encouraging students to get out and vote. In addition to its Generation Vote Now campaign, the VIU Students’ Union (VIUSU) is hosting an All Candidates Forum for students to learn more about who their local candidates are. Caitlin Kellendonk is the Director of External Relations for VIUSU and a fourth-year student studying Sociology. She is leading the Generation Vote Now campaign at VIU targeting first-time and yo...
Oct 03, 2024•10 min
The writ has been dropped marking the start of the 43rd provincial election in British Columbia, with candidates in Nanaimo’s two ridings kicking off their campaigns. This provincial election also sees new ridings for residents in the central Vancouver Island area. The former Nanaimo electoral district is now called Nanaimo-Gabriola Island which includes Gabriola Island, and the southern half of the city. As well the new Nanaimo-Lantzville electoral district will combine the northern half of Nan...
Oct 02, 2024•8 min
The writ has been dropped marking the start of the 43rd provincial election in British Columbia, with candidates in Nanaimo’s two ridings kicking off their campaigns. This provincial election also sees new ridings for residents in the central Vancouver Island area. The former Nanaimo electoral district is now called Nanaimo-Gabriola Island which includes Gabriola Island, and the southern half of the city. As well the new Nanaimo-Lantzville electoral district will combine the northern half of Nan...
Sep 27, 2024•6 min
Fall GoByBike week is kicking off from September 23 until October 6 across the province and in Nanaimo. With the weather and this event encouraging more students to ride bicycles to school, École Quarterway Elementary School’s Parent Advisory Council (PAC) is reminding drivers and cyclists to focus on road safety. Kara Walsh is the PAC vice chair for École Quarterway Elementary School. She started overseeing the GoByBike program at their school two years ago. Walsh said she has two daughters tha...
Sep 26, 2024•6 min
Fall GoByBike week is kicking off from September 23 until October 6 across the province and in Nanaimo. With the weather and this event encouraging more students to ride bicycles to school, École Quarterway Elementary School’s Parent Advisory Council (PAC) is reminding drivers and cyclists to focus on road safety. Kara Walsh is the PAC vice chair for École Quarterway Elementary School. She started overseeing the GoByBike program at their school two years ago. Walsh said she has two daughters tha...
Sep 20, 2024•6 min
Fall GoByBike week is kicking off from September 23 until October 6 across the province and in Nanaimo. With the weather and this event encouraging more students to ride bicycles to school, École Quarterway Elementary School’s Parent Advisory Council (PAC) is reminding drivers and cyclists to focus on road safety. Kara Walsh is the PAC vice chair for École Quarterway Elementary School. She started overseeing the GoByBike program at their school two years ago. Walsh said she has two daughters tha...
Sep 20, 2024•7 min
As an ambassador for BC Culture Days, a local artist is hosting a community mural event in the hope of bringing community members from all walks of life together. Annabelle Bail is a mixed-media, multidisciplinary artist in Nanaimo who uses their art to express herself and reconnect with nature and their body. “I use, let's say, fine line work mixed with [a] kind of chaotic patterns to represent, the kind of overwhelmness [sic] that comes sometimes with the feelings that you experience as you're...
Sep 19, 2024•7 min
With fall around the corner, black bears will be seeking to fatten up for the winter on the coast. During this time, WildSafeBC is reminding everyone to create a bear-safe neighbourhood. WildSafeBC is an organization that offers education on preventing conflicts with wildlife. Gabriela De Romeri is the Communications Specialist for WildSafeBC, she said in the fall, bears will appear more often in communities due to hyperphagia which causes an increase in hunger. “So it is really important that w...
Sep 12, 2024•5 min
With fall around the corner, black bears will be seeking to fatten up for the winter on the coast. During this time, WildSafeBC is reminding everyone to create a bear-safe neighbourhood. WildSafeBC is an organization that offers education on preventing conflicts with wildlife. Gabriela De Romeri is the Communications Specialist for WildSafeBC, she said in the fall, bears will appear more often in communities due to hyperphagia which causes an increase in hunger. “So it is really important that w...
Sep 11, 2024•5 min
With fall around the corner, black bears will be seeking to fatten up for the winter on the coast. During this time, WildSafeBC is reminding everyone to create a bear-safe neighbourhood. WildSafeBC is an organization that offers education on preventing conflicts with wildlife. Gabriela De Romeri is the Communications Specialist for WildSafeBC, she said in the fall, bears will appear more often in communities due to hyperphagia which causes an increase in hunger. “So it is really important that w...
Sep 09, 2024•4 min
With fall around the corner, black bears will be seeking to fatten up for the winter on the coast. During this time, WildSafeBC is reminding everyone to create a bear-safe neighbourhood. WildSafeBC is an organization that offers education on preventing conflicts with wildlife. Gabriela De Romeri is the Communications Specialist for WildSafeBC, she said in the fall, bears will appear more often in communities due to hyperphagia which causes an increase in hunger. “So it is really important that w...
Sep 06, 2024•5 min
With fall around the corner, black bears will be seeking to fatten up for the winter on the coast. During this time, WildSafeBC is reminding everyone to create a bear-safe neighbourhood. WildSafeBC is an organization that offers education on preventing conflicts with wildlife. Gabriela De Romeri is the Communications Specialist for WildSafeBC, she said in the fall, bears will appear more often in communities due to hyperphagia which causes an increase in hunger. “So it is really important that w...
Sep 05, 2024•6 min
With the school year now underway, one Nanaimo high school has announced it is expanding. As Nanaimo continues to grow, the government of B.C. is adding six new prefabricated classrooms to Wellington Secondary School which will add 150 new seats to the school. CHLY attended the announcement outside Wellington Secondary on Friday, August 30. MLA for Nanaimo, Sheila Malcolmson, spoke at the announcement saying she heard from residents about the need for more seats in schools in Nanaimo. Increasing...
Sep 03, 2024•3 min
According to a recent poll done by the TD Bank Group 65 per cent of post-secondary students define themselves as financially unstable. Between the end of July to the start of August of this year, over 500 students enrolled in a post-secondary institution and 515 parents of children currently enrolled in post-secondary were polled . The poll found that 65 per cent of students define themselves as financially unstable and 45 per cent of students are currently unable to adequately cover basic needs...
Aug 30, 2024•5 min
Nanaimo has been awarded the title of a Welcoming Francophone Community highlighting its growing French-speaking community. Under the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), Nanaimo has joined the list of 23 other communities across the country with this new title. According to the IRCC, each of the 24 communities was picked based on its already inclusive Francophone community to create an even larger welcoming Francophone community for French-speaking newcomers in Canada. This is e...
Aug 30, 2024•3 min
Nanaimo has been awarded the title of a Welcoming Francophone Community highlighting its growing French-speaking community. Under the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), Nanaimo has joined the list of 23 other communities across the country with this new title. According to the IRCC, each of the 24 communities was picked based on its already inclusive Francophone community to create an even larger welcoming Francophone community for French-speaking newcomers in Canada. This is e...
Aug 27, 2024•6 min
More people in Nanaimo and across the province will have better access to healthy food options through food infrastructure projects supported by provincial funding. On Thursday, August 22, CHLY attended a funding announcement at the Nanaimo Food Share Good Food Box packaging centre with the MLA for Nanaimo and Minister of Social Development and Poverty Reduction, Sheila Malcolmson. Malcolmson announced the BC government has given more than $4 million to 65 different organizations across British ...
Aug 23, 2024•6 min
Nanaimo’s Ethan Katzberg is still celebrating his big win at the 2024 Paris Olympics after making history as the first-ever Canadian to win gold in hammer throw . Katzberg spoke with CHLY following the Olympics as he trains in Slovakia ahead of his next two competitions in the coming weeks. Katzberg’s story of how he got into hammer throw starts with the Nanaimo Track and Field Club where he wanted to try out every sport possible. It wasn't until he started to attend his older sister’s hammer th...
Aug 21, 2024•6 min
For over 100 days, the VIU Palestine Solidarity Encampment stood at Vancouver Island University’s Nanaimo campus, and on day 110, the encampment was officially dismantled. The end of the encampment comes after the BC Supreme Court approved a 150-day injunction, ordering the removal of the encampment. The encampment was given until Sunday, August 18 at 9:30 a.m. to vacate the grassy area of the campus quad located at the centre of the campus. At the start of the injunction around 20 people rallie...
Aug 20, 2024•4 min
With about 350 people living on Protection Island, for the past ten years, the community has once again come together to celebrate pride on the island. Every August, on the island known for its pirate theme and floating bar, residents come together to put on a pride parade by decorating the main form of transportation on the island; golf carts. CHLY attended the tenth-anniversary of the pride parade and celebration on Protection Island on Saturday, August 17. About 14 golf carts, including a car...
Aug 19, 2024•6 min
Around 150 competitors will be filling the Beban Park Social Centre this weekend to find out who is the best in the province at speedcubing. Nanaimo is hosting B.C.'s first-ever provincial speedcubing championship over the weekend starting on August 16 and running until August 18. Speedcubing is a competitive sport of speed-solving mechanical combination puzzles. While the puzzles can range in shape and size, the most well-known puzzle is the 3x3 cube also known as the Rubik’s Cube. Before the c...
Aug 17, 2024•7 min
