Alert Bay

• Northern Vancouver Island residents hold rally amid rural health-care staffing issues

  "We are really having the same problem everywhere. We are operating with a skeleton staff,” B.C. Rural Health Network’s executive director said.

  Health

  Mar 11, 2023
  
• Island Health, province, and Port Hardy, B.C. doctor seemingly at odds regarding health-service issues

  Dr. Nataros, a doctor based in Port Hardy, has been publicly pushing for physician assistants for the local hospital after months of intermittent closures at the ER department.

  Health

  Feb 10, 2023
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2022: Alert Bay results

  Residents of Alert Bay elected the village's next mayor and council in the 2022 B.C. municipal election.

  Politics

  Sep 18, 2022
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• B.C. First Nation to search for children who didn’t come home from Alert Bay residential school

  A statement from 'Namgis First Nation says its investigation into the former St. Michael's Indian Residential School will happen in phases, starting with hiring a project manager.

  Canada

  Feb 17, 2022
• Missing girl, 12, from B.C.’s Southern Interior safely found, say RCMP

  Police issued the missing person bulletin on Monday afternoon, stating the girl was thought to be travelling to the Lower Mainland in the boy’s car.

  Canada

  Feb 8, 2021
• B.C. First Nation extends state of emergency after elder dies from coronavirus

  The death marks the first on a B.C. First Nation to be linked to COVID-19.

  Canada

  Apr 25, 2020
• Coronavirus: Village of Alert Bay declares emergency, imposes curfew

  Due to a cluster of cases on nearby Comorant Island, the state of emergency will remain in effect until April 24. 

  Health

  Apr 21, 2020
• B.C. municipal election 2018: Alert Bay results

  Population: 489

  Politics

  Jun 23, 2018
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• Demolition of Alert Bay residential school begins

  A special ceremony was held on Wednesday to mark the demolition of St. Michael’s Indian Residential School in Alert Bay.

  Feb 18, 2015
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• Alert Bay, B.C., residential school to be demolished

  Many see the planned demolition of St. Michael's Indian Residential School as the removal of a cancer that has been eroding the remote Vancouver Island community of Alert Bay.

  Canada

  Feb 15, 2015