After an outcry from concerned citizens wondering where daytime warming shelters are for the unhoused, the City of Nanaimo has announced a year-round daytime drop-in hub set to open next month. Operated by Island Crisis Care Society (ICCS) in partnership with Nanaimo Family Life Association (NFLA) the drop-in hub will offer a space for those unhoused in the community to find shelter during the day in all forms of weather. The drop-in hub will be located at 55 Victoria Road with the entrance to t...
Mar 17, 2025•6 min
“ We have triggers around us that remind us about these cycles that we're going through. It isn't always my clock or my calendar or my cell phone buzzing to tell me,” said Nick Chowdhury, IMAWG. As March begins off the coast of Vancouver Island, subtle cues like the changing colour of the ocean, the gathering of seagulls, eagles, sea lions, and orcas, and even the scent on the air, tell us two things. The herring are spawning, and Spring is near. Nick Chowdhury is the president of the Island Mar...
Mar 13, 2025•10 min
After an outcry from concerned citizens wondering where daytime warming shelters are for the unhoused, the City of Nanaimo has announced a year-round daytime drop-in hub set to open next month. Operated by Island Crisis Care Society (ICCS) in partnership with Nanaimo Family Life Association (NFLA) the drop-in hub will offer a space for those unhoused in the community to find shelter during the day in all forms of weather. The drop-in hub will be located at 55 Victoria Road with the entrance to t...
Mar 06, 2025•4 min
After an outcry from concerned citizens wondering where daytime warming shelters are for the unhoused, the City of Nanaimo has announced a year-round daytime drop-in hub set to open next month. Operated by Island Crisis Care Society (ICCS) in partnership with Nanaimo Family Life Association (NFLA) the drop-in hub will offer a space for those unhoused in the community to find shelter during the day in all forms of weather. The drop-in hub will be located at 55 Victoria Road with the entrance to t...
Mar 06, 2025•5 min
After an outcry from concerned citizens wondering where daytime warming shelters are for the unhoused, the City of Nanaimo has announced a year-round daytime drop-in hub set to open next month. Operated by Island Crisis Care Society (ICCS) in partnership with Nanaimo Family Life Association (NFLA) the drop-in hub will offer a space for those unhoused in the community to find shelter during the day in all forms of weather. The drop-in hub will be located at 55 Victoria Road with the entrance to t...
Mar 05, 2025•7 min
After an outcry from concerned citizens wondering where daytime warming shelters are for the unhoused, the City of Nanaimo has announced a year-round daytime drop-in hub set to open next month. Operated by Island Crisis Care Society (ICCS) in partnership with Nanaimo Family Life Association (NFLA) the drop-in hub will offer a space for those unhoused in the community to find shelter during the day in all forms of weather. The drop-in hub will be located at 55 Victoria Road with the entrance to t...
Mar 04, 2025•3 min
A report presented to the City of Courtenay indicates air quality has been improving in recent years. Courtenay’s Manager of Environmental Engineering, Jeanniene Tazzioli, shared what that presentation was about. “The Comox Valley has been monitoring air quality since 2011, and at that time there was a provincial air monitoring station that was installed and we found that fine particulate matter is the source of air quality concerns in the region,” she said. “And fine particulate matter originat...
Mar 04, 2025•7 min
On Tuesday February 25th a group of noisy residents packed the audience of a Comox Valley Regional District (CVRD) board meeting to show their opposition to a series of proposed bylaws, and a controversial method for receiving public approval. Despite the opposition, all four bylaws were passed and approved. Up for consideration were the construction of a second artificial turf field and a new fire hall in Union Bay, as well as the establishment of a Comox Valley Housing Service, and an increase...
Mar 04, 2025•7 min
A brand-new early education program, or Primary Learning Community, is coming to Airport Elementary next Fall for kids in kindergarten through grade 3. This innovative new program caught the attention of many families, with over 60 participants attending the Zoom information session January 29th, and approximately 30 families submitting expression of interest forms so far through the month of February. The leading-edge class structure is designed to be a demonstration program, aiming to show edu...
Feb 27, 2025•7 min
After an outcry from concerned citizens wondering where daytime warming shelters are for the unhoused, the City of Nanaimo has announced a year-round daytime drop-in hub set to open next month. Operated by Island Crisis Care Society (ICCS) in partnership with Nanaimo Family Life Association (NFLA) the drop-in hub will offer a space for those unhoused in the community to find shelter during the day in all forms of weather. The drop-in hub will be located at 55 Victoria Road with the entrance to t...
Feb 25, 2025•6 min
After an outcry from concerned citizens wondering where daytime warming shelters are for the unhoused, the City of Nanaimo has announced a year-round daytime drop-in hub set to open next month. Operated by Island Crisis Care Society (ICCS) in partnership with Nanaimo Family Life Association (NFLA) the drop-in hub will offer a space for those unhoused in the community to find shelter during the day in all forms of weather. The drop-in hub will be located at 55 Victoria Road with the entrance to t...
Feb 20, 2025•4 min
After an outcry from concerned citizens wondering where daytime warming shelters are for the unhoused, the City of Nanaimo has announced a year-round daytime drop-in hub set to open next month. Operated by Island Crisis Care Society (ICCS) in partnership with Nanaimo Family Life Association (NFLA) the drop-in hub will offer a space for those unhoused in the community to find shelter during the day in all forms of weather. The drop-in hub will be located at 55 Victoria Road with the entrance to t...
Feb 14, 2025•4 min
“ The intention of being a walk on the coldest night of the year is that we experience a little bit about what it's like to be outside in the cold and then only have a small bit of food at the end. So we're trying to mimic the experiences of some of the most vulnerable in our community,” said Heather Ney, CVTS. Comox Valley Transition Society (CVTS) and their partner organization Dawn to Dawn Action on Homelessness Society (D2D) are warming up for their 10th annual Coldest Night of the Year (CNO...
Feb 14, 2025•9 min
“ I think it's really valuable for the community to be able to have a project that's in the Comox Valley recognized at a national level … I think it'll really give other local governments from small communities ideas and inspiration to be able to tackle their own projects,” said Robyn Holme, CVRD. The Comox Valley Regional District (CVRD) received a Sustainable Communities award this week for Climate Adaptation from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ Green Municipal Fund. The award was g...
Feb 12, 2025•8 min
“We do have some good news coming this week. We have an extreme weather shelter coming to the community, and that will bring in 18 to 20 individuals from our community from the cold at night,” said Dayna Forsgren. A new Extreme Weather Response shelter was activated for the first time on Thursday February 6th as extreme weather conditions persist in Courtenay. The overnight shelter will continue to open on evenings when extreme weather criteria are met, operating for the hours of 8 p.m. to 8 a.m...
Feb 07, 2025•7 min
After an outcry from concerned citizens wondering where daytime warming shelters are for the unhoused, the City of Nanaimo has announced a year-round daytime drop-in hub set to open next month. Operated by Island Crisis Care Society (ICCS) in partnership with Nanaimo Family Life Association (NFLA) the drop-in hub will offer a space for those unhoused in the community to find shelter during the day in all forms of weather. The drop-in hub will be located at 55 Victoria Road with the entrance to t...
Feb 05, 2025•5 min
“That's the bottom line, is getting kids to be more active,” said Brooklyn Elementary Principal Mireille Appelbe. “And it's always good when they come to school and they've had some exercise too; it's better for their learning.” Wheels are turning at Brooklyn Elementary, as the school’s Parent Advisory Council (PAC) puts plans in motion for a bike bus this spring. A fun, safe, and active way to commute, bike buses are communal rides to and from school lead by a trained adult, with students joini...
Feb 04, 2025•3 min
After an outcry from concerned citizens wondering where daytime warming shelters are for the unhoused, the City of Nanaimo has announced a year-round daytime drop-in hub set to open next month. Operated by Island Crisis Care Society (ICCS) in partnership with Nanaimo Family Life Association (NFLA) the drop-in hub will offer a space for those unhoused in the community to find shelter during the day in all forms of weather. The drop-in hub will be located at 55 Victoria Road with the entrance to t...
Feb 03, 2025•4 min
“I think our world needs every opportunity to find joy together, to celebrate together and to be seen and find a place of belonging,” says Lynda Brosko of L’Arche Comox Valley. L’Arche Comox Valley is hosting the Comox Valley Chocolate Festival this February, an expansion of their hot chocolate festival last year. Their goal is to spread fun and joy across the valley, with chocolatey treats of all forms. L’Arche is an international organization supporting people with intellectual disabilities, a...
Jan 31, 2025•4 min
After an outcry from concerned citizens wondering where daytime warming shelters are for the unhoused, the City of Nanaimo has announced a year-round daytime drop-in hub set to open next month. Operated by Island Crisis Care Society (ICCS) in partnership with Nanaimo Family Life Association (NFLA) the drop-in hub will offer a space for those unhoused in the community to find shelter during the day in all forms of weather. The drop-in hub will be located at 55 Victoria Road with the entrance to t...
Jan 30, 2025•3 min
On Monday, January 20th Doctors for Safer Drug Policy, a group of addictions medicine physicians set up an unsanctioned Overdose Prevention Site at North Island Hospital Comox Valley. Overdose Prevention Sites, or OPS for short, are safe spaces where staff trained in overdose prevention and response are able to supervise people using illicit drugs, connect them to care, refer them to treatment, and provide harm reduction supplies such as clean needles. By providing safe and sanitary materials, O...
Jan 27, 2025•7 min
After an outcry from concerned citizens wondering where daytime warming shelters are for the unhoused, the City of Nanaimo has announced a year-round daytime drop-in hub set to open next month. Operated by Island Crisis Care Society (ICCS) in partnership with Nanaimo Family Life Association (NFLA) the drop-in hub will offer a space for those unhoused in the community to find shelter during the day in all forms of weather. The drop-in hub will be located at 55 Victoria Road with the entrance to t...
Jan 24, 2025•4 min
After an outcry from concerned citizens wondering where daytime warming shelters are for the unhoused, the City of Nanaimo has announced a year-round daytime drop-in hub set to open next month. Operated by Island Crisis Care Society (ICCS) in partnership with Nanaimo Family Life Association (NFLA) the drop-in hub will offer a space for those unhoused in the community to find shelter during the day in all forms of weather. The drop-in hub will be located at 55 Victoria Road with the entrance to t...
Jan 23, 2025•5 min
MARS Wildlife Rescue Centre in Merville is building a new mews for resident raven Kora. Ambassador animals such as Kora are ones that cannot be released back to the wild due to their injuries, and are docile enough to be safe with guests who visit the rescue centre to learn about wildlife. According to an update on the MARS website, the injured raven was brought to the centre when she was in need of intensive rehabilitation, and after months of care was deemed unreleasable by vets due to her poo...
Jan 22, 2025•4 min
The Village of Cumberland selected three volunteer households to install air quality monitors, funded by the BC Lung Foundation through the CVRD. The monitors will track levels of particulate matter in the air as a result of wood smoke, with real-time data being uploaded online for public viewing. Courtney Simpson is the Director of Development and Bylaw at the Village of Cumberland, and she spoke to CHLY and CVOX about the need to monitor air quality in the Village. “We have found that in the C...
Jan 17, 2025•6 min
After an outcry from concerned citizens wondering where daytime warming shelters are for the unhoused, the City of Nanaimo has announced a year-round daytime drop-in hub set to open next month. Operated by Island Crisis Care Society (ICCS) in partnership with Nanaimo Family Life Association (NFLA) the drop-in hub will offer a space for those unhoused in the community to find shelter during the day in all forms of weather. The drop-in hub will be located at 55 Victoria Road with the entrance to t...
Jan 16, 2025•5 min
On Monday January 13th, the CVRD Electoral Areas Services Committee (EASC) made public the acquisition and expansion of five park spaces throughout the Comox Valley. Director Edwin Grieve, electoral area director for Area C and Chair of the EASC, spoke to CHLY and CVOX about the anticipated announcement. “We've been waiting for a while to be able to rise and report on these because they've been in the works for quite some time.” Five parks were expanded or procured in this announcement, Grieve s...
Jan 15, 2025•5 min
After an outcry from concerned citizens wondering where daytime warming shelters are for the unhoused, the City of Nanaimo has announced a year-round daytime drop-in hub set to open next month. Operated by Island Crisis Care Society (ICCS) in partnership with Nanaimo Family Life Association (NFLA) the drop-in hub will offer a space for those unhoused in the community to find shelter during the day in all forms of weather. The drop-in hub will be located at 55 Victoria Road with the entrance to t...
Jan 14, 2025•7 min
After an outcry from concerned citizens wondering where daytime warming shelters are for the unhoused, the City of Nanaimo has announced a year-round daytime drop-in hub set to open next month. Operated by Island Crisis Care Society (ICCS) in partnership with Nanaimo Family Life Association (NFLA) the drop-in hub will offer a space for those unhoused in the community to find shelter during the day in all forms of weather. The drop-in hub will be located at 55 Victoria Road with the entrance to t...
Jan 11, 2025•7 min
The Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL)’s Takeover Tour came to BC on Wednesday with a game at Rogers Arena in Vancouver; the game excited anticipation among local hockey players for the Courtenay Whalers Women’s Hockey team. Local player Meghann Moore, who plays goalie for the Courtenay Whalers, spoke with CHLY and CVOX in anticipation of the game earlier this week. Moore says the impact of the PWHL goes beyond description. “It's hard to really put into words,” Moore says. “For me it's ju...
Jan 10, 2025•6 min
