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Local News
News from around Nanaimo and the Salish Sea.
A new initiative is helping construction and manufacturing companies share leftover materials, lowering their costs and keeping more waste out of landfills.
Since its start in December of 2023, Poverty Advocacy Nanaimo has worked to connect low-income people and families with resources that tend to be harder to find.
It has been over a year since the City of Nanaimo first started the process of seeking the consent of the voters to borrow funding to upgrade the Public Works Yard.
Rain or shine Nanaimoites came out to celebrate the opening of eight new pickleball courts at Beban Park highlighting the popularity of the sport in the city.
For almost 100 years, the 1st Nanaimo Scouts Hut has been the meeting place for Scouts to develop skills, make new friends and contribute to the community. Now after a fire and break-in, the future of the historical hut is uncertain.
When the VIU ElderCollege came to an end in 2023, members of the community came together to not lose the opportunities to continue offering lifelong learning experiences.
The City of Nanaimo will be looking at options to expand its temporary free parking initiative during construction on Commercial Street.
Midcoast Morning
Our news and current affairs program.
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 war.
It’s newest translator spoke with Midcoast Morning about what the book has to say in 2024.
Plus, in close to 25 years, the Canadian Letters and Images Project has digitized around 35,000 letters from Canadians at war. Project director Stephen Davies speaks about what stands out.
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 history course, he learned that war graves in Nanaimo had been laid flat in the 1960s in a move to make maintenance easier. This week, his action led city council to amend its cemetary bylaw to allow that the graves be put upright at a future date. Hills spoke with Midcoast Morning about his efforts.
At the same time, the city updated its fee structure around cemeteries, which are nearing capacity. Acting Manager of cemeteries David Thompson provided more information about the state of cemeteries in the harbour city.
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 priorities committee meeting Monday.
Doughnut economics is a way of visualizing the economy that takes into account society’s needs and our ecological capacity.
It was first presented in 2012 by British economist Kate Raworth, who later wrote a 2017 bestseller on the concept.
On the inside wall of the doughnut are society's needs - things like food, housing, income, health, and political voice.
Outside of the doughnut is our ecological ceiling, separated into nine categories like air pollution, ocean acidification, and biodiversity loss.
If the economy is functioning as it should, we are in the doughnut - everyone’s needs are being met, but we aren’t blasting past our ecological ceiling.
Raworth contrasts that with what she describes as 20th century economic thinking, which she writes in the book has been fixated on growing GDP as the measure of progress.
Midcoast Morning explores what doughnut economics could mean in practice to Nanaimo
Station Updates
Updates about station happenings.
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.
On October 8th, 9th, and 10th, students from the Nanaimo Campus of Vancouver Island University will have an opportunity to vote yes to support their campus radio station.
Friday, October 4th is World College Radio Day, and as a member of the National Campus-Community Radio Association (NCRA), CHLY 101.7FM will be participating in Open Doors, a collaboration between the two organizations! Saturday, October 5th also marks our 23rd year of broadcasting since we started back in 2001. How time flies!