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Local News
News from around Nanaimo and the Salish Sea.
Leading up to the 2024 Nanaimo Point-in-Time Count, United Way BC says they are still looking for more volunteers to help with the count.
Rain or shine, or during construction, Commercial Street in Nanaimo’s downtown core is still open for business, and the City of Nanaimo is now offering additional free parking in hopes of getting more people downtown.
A group of healthcare workers and advocates attempting to set up an unsanctioned overdose prevention site at the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital were forced to relocate across the street.
Neil Surkan is excited to be a literary ambassador as he is to be appointed the City of Nanaimo’s newest Poet Laureate.
As the days get shorter and the weather becomes cold and wet, the City of Nanaimo is reminding everyone commuting to stay alert and be seen in their community, whether by car, bike, or while walking.
A show coming to the OV Arts Centre in Nanaimo will explore gender and transgender allyship through the art form of drag, and telling one person's journey of finding themselves.
A new initiative is helping construction and manufacturing companies share leftover materials, lowering their costs and keeping more waste out of landfills.
Midcoast Morning
Our news and current affairs program.
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 medicine at the hospital is a member of the group Doctors for Safer Drug Policy, who are calling for the government of B.C. to create sanctioned, fully staffed overdose prevention sites at B.C. Hospitals.
Wilder led the effort to create the unsanctioned, unfunded Nanaimo site, which was forced to relocate off of hospital grounds on Monday.
There was also a pop up site set up outside Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria, which was only planned to run until this past Wednesday.
Overdose prevention sites are locations where people can use substances under the supervision of staff that can monitor for drug poisoning and respond to an overdose if needed.
Midcoast Morning visited the site in Nanaimo to speak with the physician who set it up.
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 has appeared in National Geographic, Al Jazeera English, The Guardian, and The New York Times.
In January, Morin was arrested while covering an encampment in Edmonton, and was charged with obstructing a police officer, a charge which was later dropped. She visited the CHLY studio to speak about that experience, and the message she’s hoping to share with people in Nanaimo.
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 to start the event back in 2001 after he was hit by a bus in New York City. He joined Midcoast Morning to share more on that story, as well as to talk cycling cinema more generally.
Station Updates
Updates about station happenings.
Update as of the morning of November 20th, 2024: Power has been restored to the station, and we are working towards getting back to regularly scheduled programming. The previous headline of this update was “Power outage due to bomb cyclone”.
The date is set for our annual Winter Social, and staff, volunteers, members, VIU faculty and students are welcome to attend!
After several weeks of campaigning for support students at Vancouver Island University's Nanaimo Campus have voted decisively in favour of a proposed fee increase for CHLY 101.7FM.
CHLY is seeking a motivated and dynamic reporter with a solid foundation in journalism to cover local news in Nanaimo, as well as Ladysmith, Gabriola, and the Comox Valley (Courtenay, Comox, and Cumberland). In this position, you will produce two 28-minute long episodes of Midcoast Morning a week for distribution via our broadcast and podcast.
The Radio Malaspina Society Board of Directors has again moved to hold our 26th Annual General Meeting in person at Vancouver Island University. The meeting will occur on Tuesday, October 29th with sign-in starting at 5:30 PM, and meeting business starting at 6:00 PM.
Nominations are now open for those seeking to join the Board of Directors of the Radio Malaspina Society, the organization that operates CHLY 101.7FM, Nanaimo’s non-profit campus-community radio station. Nominations are open until Friday, October 18th.