North Cowichan

One physician, Dr. Simon Fox, says the hospital's internal medicine service is facing an imminent crisis and may collapse within six to eight weeks if steps aren't taken.

This situation could even affect the ability to properly open and operate the new hospital currently under construction in North Cowichan.

The difficulty lies in attracting and retaining these specialists, as their workload is significantly heavier than at larger centers.

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This operation is expected to create around 30 jobs initially, with plans to expand that number to 70 over the next three years.

North Cowichan's mayor confirmed discussions about this investment took place both locally and with British Columbia's forests minister.

The facility will be using existing buildings of the site, and Western Forest Products says it won't affect the sawmill's operations.

Shinohara Nexus Group specializes in pre-cut lumber used for thousands of buildings each year, and they say they are particularly interested in hiring forestry workers who have been affected by recent mill closures.

And then one day, Everett doesn't come home.

I renew my request to speak with the North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP and the sergeant in charge of Everett's case.

At this point, she won't commit to an interview, but she does agree to answer some specific questions via email.

I've sent them through, and when I get a response, I'll update Everett's story.

And there's some electoral areas that are the same size as villages and towns.

And we have counties like North, you know, North Cowichan is a municipality that's, you know, about the same size, like about 30,000 people.

There's a couple little small towns, but mainly rural.

So Borders, Duncan.