NANAIMO - The Water Cooler is NanaimoNewsNOW's letters to the editor-style segment, featuring conversations about the news in Nanaimo and Oceanside.This week's feature deals with substantial feedback on the latest development poised for the downtown core and the former A&B Sound building at Commercial St. and Termi...

NANAIMO - The Water Cooler is NanaimoNewsNOW's letters to the editor-style segment, featuring conversations about the news in Nanaimo and Oceanside.This week's feature deals with Project Rise, a program designed to help people on the street find work, and Extinction Rebellion's continued protesting in Nanaimo.Julie T.,...

NANAIMO - The Water Cooler is NanaimoNewsNOW's letters to the editor-style segment, featuring conversations about the news in Nanaimo and Oceanside.This week's feature looks at the feedback we received on a story of tenants destroying a local rental property and the apparent lack of recourse the owners have in this sit...

NANAIMO - The Water Cooler is NanaimoNewsNOW's letters to the editor-style segment, featuring conversations about the news in Nanaimo and Oceanside.This week's feature contains two letters surrounding the same subject, ongoing social disorder in Nanaimo's downtown core and potential solutions around it.Greg L., Nanaimo...

NANAIMO - The Water Cooler is NanaimoNewsNOW's letters to the editor-style segment, featuring conversations about the news in Nanaimo and Oceanside.This week's feature looks at continued issues in Nanaimo's downtown including the recent closure of a warming centre and tense moments between operators and council members...

NANAIMO - The Water Cooler is NanaimoNewsNOW's letters to the editor-style segment, featuring conversations about the news in Nanaimo and Oceanside.This week's feature discusses a spike in assessed value for residential properties, a new affordable housing pitch for Harewood and recent Hwy. 1 protests about old growth ...

NANAIMO - The Water Cooler is NanaimoNewsNOW's letters to the editor-style segment, featuring conversations about the news in Nanaimo and Oceanside.This week's feature discusses continued snow clearing efforts through Nanaimo and the recent closure of a downtown homeless encampment.Shauna A., Nanaimo: It saddens me to ...

NANAIMO - The Water Cooler is NanaimoNewsNOW's letters to the editor-style segment, featuring conversations about the news in Nanaimo and Oceanside.This week's feature discusses recent bear interactions in the city, plans to develop a sizable parcel of land in north Nanaimo and the region's ever present challenges for ...

NANAIMO - The Water Cooler is NanaimoNewsNOW's letters to the editor-style segment, featuring conversations about the news in Nanaimo and Oceanside.This week's feature discusses this week's shutdown on Hwy. 19 and lengthening wait times at BC Ferries terminals.Editor's note: NanaimoNewsNOW posts letters received unedit...

NANAIMO - The Water Cooler is NanaimoNewsNOW's letters to the editor-style segment, featuring conversations about the news in Nanaimo and Oceanside.This week's feature discusses root causes of homelessness and the ripple effects growing housing challenges have in Nanaimo, along with continued accessibility and developm...

NANAIMO - The Water Cooler is NanaimoNewsNOW's letters to the editor-style segment, featuring conversations about the news in Nanaimo and Oceanside.This week's feature discusses two recreational sports competing for space in Bowen Park, the source of increasing COVID-19 infections on the central Island and downtown rev...

NANAIMO - The Water Cooler is NanaimoNewsNOW's letters to the editor-style segment, featuring conversations about the news in Nanaimo and Oceanside.This week's feature discusses NanaimoNewsNOW's decision to pause comments on Facebook for its COVID-19 stories, Tilray's announcing their gradual departure from Nanaimo and...