Island Insider

“It’s just reinforced, in my mind, that we’ve got an invisible enemy and that our village must stay on guard and keep doing what we’re doing," says Quadra Island We Wai Kai councillor Ted Lewis about his nation's shutdowns to protect members during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Seniors are the most likely age group to be extremely worried about their health and social isolation during COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new Statistics Canada survey But the older residents on Quadra and Cortes, rural islands located off B.C.’s west coast may be bucking that trend.

Social-distancing measures during the pandemic can put women into even tighter quarters with their abuser, further limiting their ability to reach out for help, said Diane Palmer, of the Campbell River and North Island Transition Society.

While the future of classroom instruction is still uncertain, some rural parents are finding the changes in education to be enriching and liberating for their kids and families.

“Quite frankly, in my view, the climate crisis is, in orders of magnitude, a greater threat,” Suzuki said. “The COVID crisis is a crisis for human beings, but the climate crisis is a crisis for life on the planet.”

Quadra Island quilter Terry Phillips is running a small but frenetic manufacturing assembly line in her bucolic rural community during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Strathcona Regional District is excluding the public from board meetings as it moves online due to COVID-19, citing technological limitations and a provincial order as reasons behind the move.

Lucas Chickite was standing on the bow of the Armada, a vessel working a scallop farm off the east shore of Rebecca Spit, on Thursday at around 6 p.m., when he heard a faint sound over the noise of the engine and hydraulics.

Residents of Quadra Island in British Columbia will decorate their houses, so their neighbours can get a drive-by Easter surprise.

Quadra Island farmers want goats into people's backyards as a way to improve food security in the face of COVID-19.

BC Ferries workers in public service, at terminals and on vessels, have abruptly found themselves frontline workers during a global pandemic.

The Cortes Island community is looking at new ways of coming together while staying apart.

Volunteer-driven community groups that assist vulnerable seniors are adapting their services to continue helping their peers on Cortes and Quadra islands in British Columbia.

Snowbirds from Quadra Island had wintered in Mexico, and were unaware of pandemic when they started their journey north.