Inclusive Liberation May 5 is Bevrijdingsdag – Liberation Day – in the Netherlands. The festivities are concentrated here in Wageningen because this is where the Canadian General Charles Foulkes took the German army’s surrender...
Read MoreIt’s not a word the Dutch have much trouble with. “Yes, of course we had colonies and got rich from them.” Most would likely be able to say this without a shudder. Many live in fine houses, some more than a century old, built...
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by Barb Biley For over five years all the events leading up to the opening of the new Comox Valley...
Read Moreby 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,...
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by Vanessa Scott The Comox Valley is lucky to have a range of community groups, associations,...
Read MoreFans of Monty Python, Mr. Bean, and Dr. Seuss will delight in a rollicking Christmas romp through a world steeped in tea, as James & Jamesy present their uproarious holiday-themed comedy, O Christmas Tea: A British Comedy,...
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by Danny Zanbilowicz When and how did this become a crisis? “There have always been deaths from...
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by Danny Zanbilowicz The Comox Valley Regional District has been in a power struggle with a...
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by Danny Zanbilowicz The federal government has promised that it will soon legalize marijuana in...
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by Serena Patterson I have always been a romantic about Iowa. I blame this on a number of things,...
Read MoreOn 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...
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Every Sunday- St. George’s Church, Courtenay, 2 pm to 4 pm by Danny Zanbilowicz Food Not Bombs was...
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