1 year Road to Recovery: The state of retail in Victoria post-pandemic In this week’s segment of Road to Recovery with Douglas Magazine, CHEK’s Hannah Lepine chats with Jeff Bray, the CEO of the Downtown Victoria Business Association. It's been three years since the COVID-19 pandemic sent us[...]
2 years Road to Recovery: Ron Rice and the Victoria Native Friendship Centre In this week’s segment of Road to Recovery with Douglas Magazine, CHEK’s Hannah Lepine chats with Ron Rice, executive director of the Victoria Native Friendship Centre. The Victoria Native Friendship Centre (VNFC) encourages and promotes the[...]
2 years Road to Recovery: Advancing Indigenous-led economic development In this week’s segment of Road to Recovery with Douglas Magazine, CHEK’s Hannah Lepine chats with Christina Clarke, executive director of the Indigenous Prosperity Centre. Created in 2021 by South Island Prosperity Partnership (SIPP), the Indigenous[...]
2 years Road to Recovery: Artist collective in former power commission building In this week's segment of Road to Recovery with Douglas Magazine, CHEK's Hannah Lepine chats with Logan Ford, the co-founder of Rockslide Studio & Gallery. Established in 2013, the Rockslide Studio & Gallery serves Greater[...]
2 years Road to Recovery: New tourism marketing campaign leans into island life In this week’s segment of Road to Recovery with Douglas Magazine, CHEK’s Hannah Lepine chats with Jamie Sterling, the marketing coordinator of Southern Gulf Islands Tourism. Have you ever booked a vacation and thought, all I[...]
2 years Road to Recovery: The circular economy In this week’s segment of Road to Recovery with Douglas Magazine, CHEK’s Hannah Lepine chats with Georgia Lavender, the director of operations with Synergy Foundation. In the current economy, we take materials from the earth, make[...]
2 years Road to Recovery: Ocean Networks Canada-led Solid Carbon Project and the blue economy In this week’s segment of Road to Recovery with Douglas Magazine, CHEK’s Hannah Lepine chats with Kate Moran, the CEO of Ocean Networks Canada. Ocean Networks Canada is a world-leading ocean observing facility owned by the[...]
2 years Road to Recovery: The culture of happy work In this week's segment of Road to Recovery with Douglas Magazine, CHEK's Hannah Lepine chats with Mandy Farmer, president and CEO of Accent Inns. Mandy Farmer has been in her role since May of 1998,[...]
26 mins A tanker plane crash has killed a firefighting pilot in Oregon as Western wildfires spread Communities in the U.S. West and Canada were under siege from raging wildfires on Friday, as a fast-moving blaze sparked by lightning sent people fleeing on fire-ringed roads in rural Idaho and a human-caused inferno forced the evacuation of hundreds of homes in northern California.
39 mins IWOW: Girls' firefighting camp teaches more than just how to put out fires It wasn't easy and it isn't easy being the only female career fighter in the Campbell River department, so Debra Rogers has made it her mission to increase the number of women doing the work.
1 hour Sooke wildfire not threatening region's water supply, but remains out of control The Old Man Lake wildfire near Sooke remains out of control, but there's good news for southern Vancouver Island when it comes to the region's water supply.
2 hours Nanaimo man saved after CHEK News viewer sees family's appeal for help on TV James Peakman had been missing since he walked out of NRGH on Tuesday. His family had followed a lead that he'd been seen near a Country Grocer store but couldn't find him so they called CHEK News.