Category Archives: Community

Managing director transition at Cortes Museum

CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca

After four years of running the Cortes Island Museum and Archives as managing director, Jane Newman is currently training her successor, Melanie Boyle.

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British Columbians open homes, hearts and wallets for Ukrainian refugees

By Fabian Dawson, New Canadian Media, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

In Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Aleks Vrublevskij’s email is inundated with offers of housing, cash and jobs for Ukrainian refugees fleeing from the invasion of their homeland.

“We can barely keep up…people are telling us they are ready to help, and they want Canada to speed up the process,” he tells New Canadian Media.

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Help the restart of Mansons Hall by filling out a survey

It has been more than a week since the Southern Cortes Community Association, or SCCA, put out a survey to find out what kinds of spaces, opportunities and events the community wants to see in Mansons Hall. 

In today’s interview Cora Moret, secretary of the SCCA, describes what sounds like the society’s rebirth after a two-year-long COVID hibernation.

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Canada eyes 1.3 million immigrants to overcome labour pains

By Fabian Dawson, New Canadian Media, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Canada aims to attract about 1.3 million new immigrants over the next three years to help fill critical labour shortages and fuel post-pandemic growth.

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