Category: Decafnation

Ninety-one-year-old Elke Bibby, with her walker in tow, thought it important enough to come in from Cumberland to join the Day of Action to Save BC Forests.

At a workshop in Cumberland this week, organized by Village Mayor Leslie Baird, a mixed-gender panel of six Comox Valley residents shared their experiences of being bullied.

A jovial, yet determined, crowd of student strikers and adult supporters over 250 strong marched through downtown Courtenay Friday, to demand action on climate change. The protest started with a rally at Courtenay City Hall.

After elected officials have added more than 60 amendments to a 14-year-old bylaw, it’s time to update the bylaw.

A fifteen-year-old girl was beaten unconscious by a group of four other teenagers, while walking to school Tuesday morning, April 23rd.

Representatives of 53 municipalities on Vancouver Island and the British Columbia coast have endorsed a Comox Valley initiative for the province to stop issuing licenses for the bottling and commercial sale of groundwater.

It was a long rap sheet, but speakers from the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment detailed the dangers of fracking to people in the Peace region of BC, on Sunday, March 31st at the Florence Filberg Lounge. Voices from the Sacrifice Zone was hosted by the Watershed Sentinel.

Marine biologists can’t say with certainty why one of the endangered southern resident killer whales swam up the Courtenay River this fall, an unusual behavior, but there’s a good chance it was scouting for salmon.

Decafnation reported last week that the announcement of new long-term care beds did not please everyone in the Comox Valley. We quoted health care workers still employed by Island Health and Seniors Voices advocated Delores Broten.