Editorial Archives - The Island Word

News from the Comox Valley Hospital

by islandword | Feb 11, 2018 | Editorial, Featured, Latest News | 0 |

by Barb Biley For over five years all the events leading up to the opening of the new Comox Valley...

Political Cultures

by islandword | Jan 27, 2018 | 130 Degrees, Editorial, Featured, Latest News | 0 |

by Michael Loevinsohn That’s 130 degrees east of Cumberland, and many meters lower. That’s where I’m writing from: a town called Wageningen in the middle of the Netherlands on one of the branches of the Rhine. A university town,...

Sold-out Public Forum Explores Community Health

by islandword | Dec 7, 2017 | Editorial, Featured, Latest News | 0 |

by Vanessa Scott The Comox Valley is lucky to have a range of community groups, associations,...

The Struggle to Reduce Opioid Overdose Deaths

by islandword | Sep 10, 2017 | Editorial, Featured, Latest News | 0 |

by Danny Zanbilowicz When and how did this become a crisis? “There have always been deaths from...

The RD vs 3L

by islandword | Jun 4, 2017 | Editorial, Featured, Latest News | 1 |

by Danny Zanbilowicz The Comox Valley Regional District has been in a power struggle with a...

Adrienne Clarkson and John Ralston Saul in Comox Valley

by islandword | Apr 28, 2017 | Editorial, Your Word | 0 |

by Danny Zanbilowicz The Comox Valley was visited last night (April 27 2017) by two of...

Village of Cumberland Backs Away From Dispensaries

by islandword | Apr 11, 2017 | Editorial, Featured, Latest News | 0 |

by Danny Zanbilowicz The federal government has promised that it will soon legalize marijuana in...

That DT Thing

by islandword | Mar 6, 2017 | Editorial, Featured, Latest News | 0 |

by Serena Patterson I have always been a romantic about Iowa. I blame this on a number of things,...

“Oroville”: A Relevant Measure of Current Environmental Paralysis

by islandword | Feb 27, 2017 | Editorial, Featured, Your Word | 0 |

On the West Coast, what happens in California is a reliable foreshadowing of things to come at home. Geologically, the 1000km Cascadian Subduction zone and the terrains associated with it link us to Northern California, whose...