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00:48:07

Gabriola is the setting of a new award winning Canadian feature film, Seagrass, made on Gabriola Island.

The feature by Vancouver director-writer Meredith Hama-Brown explores intergenerational trauma of Japanese Canadians.

BC

- Gabriola Island and area

24-Mar-24

00:07:12

"Tatianna's Travels," Ep. 2: Why Were the Gulf Islands Once Nicknamed "Little Hawaii"?

Gabriola Island's own islands-roving correspondent visits Hawaii and discovers some little-known links to our area.

BC

- Gabriola Island and area

11-Mar-24

01:00:53

Walking Together with "Syeyutsus"

Gabriola's Lisa Webster revisits some favourite past episodes of the series "Learning with Syeyutsus."

BC

- Gabriola Island and area

20-Feb-24

00:10:42

Introducing "Tatianna's Travels": Gabriola and Other World Islands Compared and Contrasted

In this new series, Tatianna Mallory investigates how life and culture on Gabriola compares with, say, Sardinia's.

BC

- Gabriola Island and area

16-Feb-24

00:55:26

Gabriola Island's The Infinite Atom are Buoyed by Community Support

Alt-rock band changes up the island's musical diet and brings joy and a boost to the artistic economy in the process.

BC

- Gabriola Island and area

21-Jan-24

01:25:22

Regional District of Nanaimo Board Approves Provisional 2024-28 Budget in Contentious Meeting

Proposed financial plan includes significant increase to funding for community parks on Gabriola Island

BC

- Gabriola Island and area

29-Dec-23

00:09:45

"Life on Gabriola: Reflections on Health and Well-being," Episodes 7 & 8: "Advice to Our Younger Selves" and "Finding Community"

Self-taught life lessons and more: 'People for a Healthy Comunity' series on aging well, whatever your age.

BC

- Gabriola Island and area

17-Dec-23

00:41:48

Magic and Mayhem: Video Series Highlights 16 Years of a Gabriola Island Tradition

Annual holiday pantos, involving as many as 65 people, have promoted both laughs and community on the island.

BC

- Gabriola Island and area

17-Dec-23

01:23:59

Snuneymuxw First Nation Rep Calls for Greater Involvement in Gabriola Island Parks & Trails Plan

"Colonization has typically taken areas of great importance to Indigenous people and created parks on them."

BC

- Gabriola Island and area

08-Dec-23

00:23:40

Islands Trust Local Trust Committee Meeting on Gabriola Island Considers Walks, Water, and Indigenous Cultural Heritage Sites

Changes to a pedestrian route are examined and a Trustee seeks better guidance from BC and Canada re sensitive locales.

BC

- Gabriola Island and area

02-Dec-23

01:27:24

Regenerating Gabriola Island, BC

Author and eco-activist Joe Brewer makes the case for a bioregional approach to restoring the earth.

BC

- Gabriola Island and area

02-Nov-23

00:28:15

Seedlings and Skateparks

Planting in a drought and skatepark "etiquette" are agenda items for the Gabriola Parks and Open Spaces Advisory C'ttee.

BC

- Gabriola Island and area

29-Oct-23

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