On The Island
with Gregor Craigie

Dr.Marcus Barron and Dr. Marci Fukunaga are doing their two-year residency here on the Island, including at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital.

A leaked plan for the Liberals to score "quick wins" with ethnic voters prompts an abject apology from Premier Christy Clark and government MLAs. Our Friday panel examines the political fallout.

The plan to build navy ships on the west coast took a few broadsides in Parliament. But the company that got the contract to build the new ships is firing back.

Provincial funding cuts for literacy mean some non-profit groups that teach people how to read and write will have to cut back or shut down.

Jim Mann is hoping to get a Dementia Action Plan on the front burner for British Columbia.

If you want to see the constellation Taurus, perhaps the best viewing place is Victoria's Cattle Point. We find out about efforts to designate Cattle Point as an official dark sky park.

David Gray, Executive Vice President of Mill and Timber, in Surrey, says too many logs are exported to China and BC's mills could close as a result.

Twelve draught horses hit the unemployment line this past weekend in Victoria. We talk with the owner of a horse drawn carriage company about what happens to the horses, when the business starts to fail.

The shortage of family doctors in B.C. is not news to anyone who's tried to find one in recent years. Last week the B.C. Government launched a new program called "A GP for Me" with the aim of connecting a family doctor to every resident who needs one.