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“The system is set up for failure,” said a worried and frustrated mother of a young, heroin addicted man. Jackie Dennis of Huu-ay-aht is doing whatever she can to help her adult son get clean, including taking him home to Anacla to care for him as he goes through the painful process of withdrawing…
The Quu’usa project, which is a program under the mental health program of the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council (NTC), hosted a successful workshop in Tsaxana. The ‘Finding the Strength in Ourselves” workshop took place at Wameesh Gymnasium on Dec. 5. There were about 70 participants…
This holiday season, like all years, the Alberni Valley Salvation Army have been working hard to help feed the unhoused community and provide needed necessities.
Pastor Michael Ramsay and his team of staff and volunteers will be providing those in need with a Christmas meal on Dec. 25 at the…
When Larry Baird gets up in the morning and feels the twinges and pain of the arthritis in his hands he thinks of Dr. Ryk Ward and the relief his research on rheumatic diseases promised to Nuu-chah-nulth peoples.
In the early 1980s, Ward took 883 vials of blood from Nuu-chah-nulth subjects to…
More than 60 people arrived at the Hupacasath House of Gathering Jan. 20 to hear updated information about residential school compensation for former students and to hear about available healing resources.
In her welcome and opening comments, Hupacasath Chief Shaunee Casavant offered words of…
Monica Patsy Jones has worked hard to fundraise, plan and organize the second annual walk for missing and murdered Indigenous peoples of Vancouver Island. She is inviting people from all over Vancouver Island to join in a walk Feb.9 in Duncan B.C. in an effort to draw attention to the unsolved…
A new tool is being introduced to Port Alberni’s streets as front-line workers fight to make life safer for illicit drug users. The Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council’s health department has purchased a mobile drug testing machine, which can instantly detect the contents of a sampled batch of…
A third-party review looking into recent allegations against the Port Alberni Shelter Society (PASS) is now underway and is expected to take several weeks for completion.
Meanwhile, a tent settlement that gathered in protest outside of the shelter for the last few weeks was disbanded by Island…
For many generations Indigenous women and two-spirited people have been the victims of violence in disproportionate numbers across Canada. This fact prompted the federal government to launch a National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in December 2018.
The inquiry…
The Special Committee on Reforming the Police Act released a report with 11 recommendations to transform law enforcement and community safety on April 28.
Over the past 15 months, the committee gathered input from 411 organizations and individuals who presented and wrote to the group during a…
Help is coming to the streets of some Vancouver Island cities, with the latest effort to save Nuu-chah-nulth people from the harms of drug use.
Today the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council’s Teechuktl department presented its harm reduction van, which will be offering regular assistance to drug users…