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S3E121 · · 28:01
Exploring Nanaimo as a commercial real estate market, getting an update on the old A&B Sound building, and checking in on the BC assessment process.
S3E120 · · 28:01
The story of a 1985 anti logging protest on Haida Gwaii is coming to Nanaimo for a special screening The Stand from filmmaker Christopher Auchter draws from more than a hundred hour...
S3E119 · · 28:01
A true crime story and a train disaster from the island’s past are being looked at through a new lens. Historian Dave Flawse wonders whether Henry Wagner aka the flying dutchman de...
S3E118 · · 28:01
At the start of the year Mick Sweetman was reporting for CHLY, he now finds himself as the Nanaimo reporter for The Discourse. Mick paid a visit to the CHLY studio to share some of t...
S3E117 · · 28:01
The midtown water supply, pickleball courts, and land transfers to Snuneymuxw were some of the highlights Nanaimo Mayor Leonard Krog shared when he visited the CHLY studio to review ...
S3E116 · · 28:01
A Christmas classic is going to be transformed into a live radio play free for all to attend this Saturday night at VIU. The school’s Malaspina theatre will host a locally penned ad...
S3E114 · · 28:01
The Nanaimo Systems Planning Organization (SPO) exists to provide research, data, analysis, education and information related to the community's homelessness response. It began opera...
S3E114 · · 28:01
An average of 29 people are coming into homelessness every month in Nanaimo, according to the Systems Planning Organization (SPO). The SPO exists to provide research, data, analysis...
S3E113 · · 28:01
Ladysmith and Qualicum Beach are both in the process of getting new skateparks for their towns. An open house Wednesday night will provide residents of Ladysmith the chance to way in...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
S3E100 · · 28:01
Conversations with Nanaimo-Lantzville Green Party candidate Lia Versavel and Nanaimo-Gabriola Island BC Conservative candidate Dale Parker.
S3E99 · · 28:01
Conversations with Nanaimo-Gabriola Island NDP candidate Sheila Malcolmson and Nanaimo-Lantzville NDP candidate George Anderson.
S3E98 · · 28:01
Conversations with Nanaimo-Lantzville Conservative candidate Gwen O’Mahony and Nanaimo-Gabriola candidate Shirley Lambrecht.
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...
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...
S3E96 · · 28:01
With B.C.’s election campaign in full swing, Midcoast Morning checks in with UBC political science lecturer Stewart Prest, and VIU Jarislowsky Chair in Trust and Political Leadership...
