At 9:08 AM on the morning of February 9th, 2022, a Squirrel Cove resident phoned the Coast Guard about a fire just north of Refuge Cove, on West Redonda Island. What she thought might be a house engulfed by fire turned out to be a 34 foot wood and fiberglass boat close to the shore.
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Island Health not exempt from B.C.’s record toxic street drug death toll
National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
B.C. communities large and small are suffering devastating losses as deaths from toxic street drugs reached an all-time high with 2,224 people dying from overdoses in the province last year.
Every health authority saw a record loss of lives in 2021 as an average of six people died each day from toxic drugs, said B.C.’s Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe on Wednesday, and communities across Vancouver Island were no exception.
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Tuition-free wildfire-fighter training still accepting applications
CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca
North Island College (NIC) in Campbell River is starting another round of tuition-free four-week-long wildfire crew member training at the end of this month.
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Project growing Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw souls through language, land, culture and technology
Windspeaker, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Sara Child, Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw, wants to “unlock” the power of the Kwak̓wala language and, if she and her team are successful, it could mean that other Indigenous peoples will have the keys to revitalize their endangered languages as well.
Child is a professor in Indigenous education at North Island College. The not-for-profit society she established in 2017, the Sanyakola Foundation, has received several years funding (May 2021 to May 2024) through the Mitacs Indigenous Pathways program.
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Hollyhock Learning Centre CEO looks back on organization’s 40 years, future goals
By Greg Osoba, CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca
Since 1982, Hollyhock Learning Centre has offered residential programs on a range of subjects, from music, dance, writing and theatre, to yoga, meditation, leadership, business and self awareness.
This summer, the organization is celebrating its 40th anniversary in operation on Cortes Island.
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