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Community, Indigenous Nations

Indigenous Journey Project back on track

By Sarah Suleman, Victoria’s campus and community radio, CFUV 101.9 FM, Local Journalism Initiative.

On Sept. 21, after spending the past year in consultation, the Inter-Cultural Association’s (ICA) Indigenous Journey Project officially released their territorial acknowledgement, the first step in what Director of Impact and Innovation Meghan Mergaert says is a “five-year action plan” achieved “through a number of trainings and conversations at all levels of our organization.”

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Forests

Fairy Creek protesters release video highlighting BC’s ‘hypocrisy’

Campbell River Mirror, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

A new video made by Vancouver Island activists at the forefront of the Fairy Creek watershed blockade in Port Renfrew has gone viral on the internet as it takes a dig at B.C.’s destination marketing brand, Super, Natural British Columbia.

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Food Security

Election 2020: Richmond’s rich agricultural land

By Hannah Scott, Richmond Sentinel, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Richmond’s rich agricultural land is an asset the community holds dear. There are farms nestled in all corners of the city, but nowhere is more replete with agricultural land than the city’s east side, within the Richmond-Queensborough riding.

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Food Security

California growers need to test for E. coli

By Marc Fawcett-Atkinson, Canada’s National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Unprecedented federal import restrictions on romaine lettuce and salad mixes from California’s Salinas Valley point to problems in the U.S. agricultural system that supplies British Columbians with more than half their fresh vegetables, Canadian food safety researchers say.

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Health

Campbell River Health Area is relatively COVID free

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This program was funded by a grant from the Community Radio Fund of Canada and the Government of Canada’s Local Journalism Initiative. 

Statistics released by the BC Centre for Disease Control show that our area is relatively COVID free.

These are found on a series of maps, and a weekly report, released on Thursday, October 8th. 

However a CHEK news report of two cases at Carihi Secondary School in Campbell River could change this.

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