This is the unedited audio from the aquaculture presentation to the SRD Board made by John Paul Fraser, Executive Director of the BC Salmon Farmer’s Association, and Dean Dobrinsky, from MOWI Canada West on March 10, 2021.
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North Vancouver Island intercity buses on hold: COVID-19
National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Small rural communities on Vancouver Island are under strain and individual and community health is at risk with the continued lack of intercity bus service on Vancouver Island, service providers say.
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Tahsis supports decision to phase out fish farms
Campbell River Mirror, Local Journalism Reporter
After a decade of opposing open-pen fish farming along the west coast of Vancouver Island, Tahsis is perhaps the only north Vancouver Island community to come out in support of the federal decision to phase out 19 Discovery Islands fish farms by 2022.
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Fresh fruit & veggies: the Strathcona Good Food Box program
Campbell River Mirror, Local Journalism Reporter
Campbell River based conservation organization, Greenways Land Trust, is initiating the Strathcona Good Food Box program for six North Vancouver Island communities to make fresh fruits and vegetables easily accessible.
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Campbell River Health Area is relatively COVID free
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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