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I believe when people who have lost their baggage going on holiday receive equal billing on the evening news with people who are homeless and our healthcare system has reached a point where people do not have access to a doctor, and our hospitals have to close emergency wards we have a serious problem as…
The West Shore Community Response Network was proud to offer a Fellowship Award to a student graduating from Grade 12 in School District 62 this year.
One senior spoke about the anxiety she feels not having a family doctor after losing four in the past eight years.
I began writing stories for all the right reasons, more than 20 years ago. Having been an avid reader for as long as I could remember, I was rather upset that my eldest daughter, then age nine, chose not to read.
We are yet again being deluged with the behavior of one segment of the community against others, in its many forms. We should not really be surprised. For the purpose of discussion we can say that the human brain was the original computer. Just like all computers the human one is hard wired for basic…
Throughout the ups and downs of the last two years one thing has remained constant, the strength, talent and diversity of Island women.
The United Nations writes……. “It represents the one day in the year when the whole world voices it opposition to the abuse and suffering inflicted on some of our older generations.”
I was born in Nova Scotia. My father was in the Navy and we were moved back to Victoria in 1961. In August of 1962 my family was in a very serious car accident ,which changed our lives forever.
I set up island Woman 2012 because I knew many talented women on the Island who loved to write. They produced beautiful articles and poems etc. but had no means of easily sharing or publishing them.
An award-winning bestseller by Chemainus journalist Warren Goulding is enjoying renewed interest more than 20 years after it was first published.