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A paper mill in Crofton, B.C., will curtail operations indefinitely within 60 days, leaving about 150 employees without work for the foreseeable future.
Most communities around Vancouver Island are seeing significant percentage increases in their populations showing the need for more affordable housing and social services.
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North Cowichan Will Draw Water From Chemainus Wells Again This Summer SHARE ON: The municipality of North Cowichan will continue drawing water from the Chemainus Wells for the public system. In a Facebook post, Mayor Al Siebring confirmed that for the next two summers, from June 15 to October 15. He added this should prevent the need for any boil water advisories in Chemainus for the next two summers. Siebring says this is granted under Section 10 of the Water Sustainability Act, which allows the municipality to divert water from the Chemainus River aquifer to users on the Chemainus water system. The municipality used to draw water from Holyoak Lake, before starting this project almost 20 years ago. The issue was that the city was drawing from still surface water out of the lake, which requires higher treatment than drawing from the moving river water.
VICTORIA A First Nation leader is standing up to racism by making art. Stuart Pagaduan, an elected councillor of the Cowichan Tribes First Nation, decided to create an image to stand up to racism towards his community after it was transparent in releasing information about COVID-19 cases. “We can talk about things, but what are we actually going to do to confront this?” he said. Earlier in January, the mayor of North Cowichan said he was disappointed and “pissed off” by some of the reactions he was seeing online in response to a cluster of COVID-19 detected among Cowichan Tribes members.
Posted: Jan 14, 2021 6:44 PM PT | Last Updated: January 15 Tla’amin Nation Councillor Brandon Peters said he was shocked to hear that members of his community were not allowed into stores like Save-On-Foods in Powell River, B.C. (Submitted by Brandon Peters) Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry has added her voice to those condemning businesses for denying Indigenous people entry due to COVID-19 fears, calling it racism. But the businesses which include a restaurant, dentist s office and grocery store claimed they were trying to stop COVID-19 from spreading from nearby Indigenous communities. The CBC has learned that Save-On-Foods in Powell River, the Glen Lyon Restaurant in Port Hardy, and a dentist s office in Duncan all refused service to Indigenous people, citing cases of COVID-19 in their communities as a reason.
The mayor of North Cowichan says he s "disappointed" and "pissed off" by some of the reactions he s seeing online to a cluster of COVID-19 detected at a local First Nation.