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Decision points for Nanaimo's budget

Decision points for Nanaimo's budget

S3E112 · · 28:00

Nanaimo city council is going to be deciding Friday whether or not a number of projects will get funding in next year’s budget. It’s been a week full of conversations around the bud...

Searching for the essence of Cumberland in tales from its past

Searching for the essence of Cumberland in tales from its past

S3E111 · · 28:01

A shoot out with a pirate, A train disaster, a chow mein that’s been passed down to generations that were forced to move away - these are just some of the stories you’ll find in A Pl...

‘Bad in every way' says VIU prof of GST holiday

‘Bad in every way' says VIU prof of GST holiday

S3E110 · · 33:55

The federal government is one step closer to putting a temporary pause on GST, after a vote in the house of commons Thursday night. Legislation to exempt a number of items from GST ...

Meeting Nanaimo's new poet laureate/The lost intersections of Nanaimo's Chinatowns

Meeting Nanaimo's new poet laureate/The lost intersections of Nanaimo's Chinatowns

S3E109 · · 36:16

It’s a good time for productive outrage, says Nanaimo’s new poet laureate. Neil Surkan is getting ready to start a two year term in the position on December 1, he spoke with CHLY re...

In conversation with the doctor who set up an unsanctioned OPS across from NRGH

In conversation with the doctor who set up an unsanctioned OPS across from NRGH

S3E108 · · 30:23

It’s the final day for a pop up overdose prevention site operating across the street from Nanaimo Regional General Hospital. Dr. Jess Wilder, a physician who works in addiction medi...

Journalist Brandi Morin visits Nanaimo to share message about reconciliation

Journalist Brandi Morin visits Nanaimo to share message about reconciliation

S3E108 · · 32:48

Journalist and author Brandi Morin is in town to give a talk as part of VIU’s Indigenous speakers series. A survivor of the missing and murdered Indigenous women crisis, her work ha...

Bicycle Film Festival returns to Nanaimo

Bicycle Film Festival returns to Nanaimo

S3E107 · · 28:01

The Bicycle Film Festival is returning to Nanaimo this Saturday. A collection of films related to cycling will play at Malaspina Theatre starting around 6:15. Brendt Barbur decided...

Understanding the port dispute that's headed to binding arbitration

Understanding the port dispute that's headed to binding arbitration

S3E106 · · 28:01

A labour dispute that’s been impacting ports in Nanaimo and across the province is headed to binding arbitration Federal labour minister Steven MacKinnon ordered the move Tuesday. F...

Local resident pens new translation of All Quiet on The Western Front/Nearly 25 years of Canadian war letters

Local resident pens new translation of All Quiet on The Western Front/Nearly 25 years of Canadian war letters

S3E105 · · 38:18

Published at the end of the 1920s, All Quiet on the Western Front by Eric Maria Remarque tells the story of a young man named Paul who enlists in the German army in the first world w...

Standing up (for) Commonwealth War Graves in Nanaimo

Standing up (for) Commonwealth War Graves in Nanaimo

S3E105 · · 28:01

A pair of cemetery related items were on the council agenda this week in Nanaimo. When Kevin Hills wrote a term paper on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission as part of a military ...

Salmon spawning season

Salmon spawning season

S3E104 · · 28:01

It’s salmon spawning season around Nanaimo. Midcoast Morning reviews the salmon lifecycle, and checks in on issues impacting pacific salmon species.

Doughnut economics in a municipal context

Doughnut economics in a municipal context

S3E103 · · 28:01

Nanaimo is looking at how to make people more aware of doughnut economics, a framework council adopted back in 2020. An update on the topic was on the agenda at a governance and pri...

Third time the charm for public works yard AAP?

Third time the charm for public works yard AAP?

S3E102 · · 37:29

There’s less than a week to go in the city of Nanaimo’s third attempt at an alternative approval process to be able to borrow up to $90 million for upgrades to the city’s public work...

Nanaimo considering upping funding to restorative justice program

Nanaimo considering upping funding to restorative justice program

S3E102 · · 28:00

Nanaimo city council is considering increasing funding for restorative justice in the community in next year’s budget. Restorative justice is an approach that seeks to repair the ha...

How the voting process has changed since the last provincial election

How the voting process has changed since the last provincial election

S3E101 · · 28:01

Why tallying the results on election day should be much faster this go around, and record numbers of advanced ballots cast in B.C.’s provincial election. Plus, getting the thoughts o...

Nanaimo candidate interviews (part 3 of 3)

Nanaimo candidate interviews (part 3 of 3)

S3E100 · · 28:01

Conversations with Nanaimo-Lantzville Green Party candidate Lia Versavel and Nanaimo-Gabriola Island BC Conservative candidate Dale Parker.

Nanaimo candidate interviews (part 2 of 3)

Nanaimo candidate interviews (part 2 of 3)

S3E99 · · 28:01

Conversations with Nanaimo-Gabriola Island NDP candidate Sheila Malcolmson and Nanaimo-Lantzville NDP candidate George Anderson.

Nanaimo candidate interviews (part 1 of 3)

Nanaimo candidate interviews (part 1 of 3)

S3E98 · · 28:01

Conversations with Nanaimo-Lantzville Conservative candidate Gwen O’Mahony and Nanaimo-Gabriola candidate Shirley Lambrecht.

Nanaimo Lantzville candidates talk healthcare

Nanaimo Lantzville candidates talk healthcare

S3E97 · · 28:01

Healthcare was on the agenda for all three candidates in the new Nanaimo Lantzville riding this week. George Anderson, Gwen O’Mahony, and Lia Versavel debated Wednesday at an all ca...

Exploring the other side through art

Exploring the other side through art

S3E97 · · 28:01

Shnu’a’th, ᐊᑳᒥᕽ Akâmihk, The Other Side, is a new exhibition opening this weekend at the Nanaimo Art Gallery. Running from Friday through to January 12th, the exhibition will consid...