Category: Featured

CURTAIN CALL

Posted by islandword | Oct 4, 2018 | Arts & Culture, Editorial, Featured, Latest News | 0 |

On The Line

by Brian Charlton | Dec 14, 2018 | Featured, Labour Beat | 0 |

After finish reading Rod Mickleburgh’s new history of the BC Labour movement ‘On the Line’, the first emotion I feel is anger. Anger at how the apparatus of the State, through the decades and at the behest of robber barons,...

Election 2018

by islandword | Oct 13, 2018 | Editorial, Featured, Latest News | 0 |

All candidates were sent four questions from the Island WORD: 1. Do you support the Regional...

CURTAIN CALL

by islandword | Oct 4, 2018 | Arts & Culture, Editorial, Featured, Latest News | 0 |

By Martin Crilly It starts, most often, in the summer doldrums. In the kitchen. Up on the bluffs,...

Crossroads Part II

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

by Danny Zanbilowicz This fall represents a turning point. In October there will be a provincial referendum on whether or not we switch our electoral system from “first past the post” to “proportional representation”. The WORD...

3L at Crossroads

by islandword | Jul 19, 2018 | Editorial, Featured, Latest News, Your Word | 0 |

by Danny Zanbilowicz The issue right now concerns the two processes for dealing with a proposed amendment to the Regional Growth Strategy- “standard” or “minor”. An amendment is by default considered “standard”, unless it is...

Emerging into Lyme

by Michael Loevinsohn | Jul 5, 2018 | 130 Degrees, Featured, Latest News | 0 |

Emerging into Lyme Lyme disease is now the most common vector-borne disease in Canada and the USA. Caused by the bacterium Borellia burgdorferi and transmitted by the bite of an Ixodes tick, Lyme disease is increasing rapidly in...

Inclusive liberation

by Michael Loevinsohn | May 6, 2018 | 130 Degrees, Featured | 0 |

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...

Colonialism: over there or underfoot

by Michael Loevinsohn | Apr 15, 2018 | 130 Degrees, Featured | 0 |

It’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...

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,...

O Christmas Tea: A British Comedy

by islandword | Dec 7, 2017 | Arts & Culture, Featured, Latest News | 0 |

Fans 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,...