The Strathcona Regional District Board (SRD) expressed its frustrations with the Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) consultation process at the Aug 17 SRD Board meeting.
Although they were among the parties invited to a series of meetings about the transition of open net pen fish farms out of the ocean, there have been last minute scheduling changes.
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By Louis Belcourt, CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca
The Campbell River and North Island Transition Society is looking for private safe homes to shelter women and children fleeing violence on Cortes Island.
The society works closely with the Cortes Island Women’s Resource Centre to help provide services, resource and shelter for those in need.
Continue reading Volunteer safe homes needed on Cortes Island: women’s centreMosaic informed the SRD Board of its intentions to log Cortes and Quadra Islands in a presentation at the August 17 SRD Board meeting.
“Earlier this year, we were really happy to announce that Way Kay Ventures, a newly formed company owned in part by the We Wai Kai First Nation is providing us with our timber harvesting services on Quadra island. So great to see that nation, working with us on our crown tenures, to participate in the forest sector in their traditional territory,” explained Molly Hudson, Mosaic’s Director of Sustainability. “We’ve been talking a lot with the community on Cortes about upcoming harvest plans, which we intend to launch this fall.”
Continue reading Mosaic informs SRD of its intentions for Cortes and Quadra Islands
National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
A colourful crowd emitting bursts of laughter and bubbles assembled at the elementary school on Quadra Island as the small B.C. coastal community gathered to celebrate the Discovery Islands’ first Pride event on Sunday.
The festival celebrating 2SLGBTQ+ people and allies on Quadra, Cortes, Read and other neighbouring B.C. islands got underway at noon sharp. Participants young and old streamed from the school grounds to march the two blocks that comprise Quathiaski Cove’s main drag before arriving at the village green for a family-friendly party.
Continue reading Tiny B.C. coast community launches its first official Pride celebration
According to BC Parks, Campbell River is home to “the only significant stand of old-growth Douglas Fir north of Macmillan Provincial Park [Cathedral Grove].” Yet the city seems to be virtually oblivious of the “towering old growth Douglas Fir and Cedar trees” in the 3.5 kilometre Riverside and Old Growth Loop trails.
Continue reading The only significant old growth Douglas Fir stand north of Cathedral Grove
