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NDP leader Jack Layton, in his bid to replace Stephen Harper as prime minister of Canada, says he is humbled but determined by a groundswell of NDP support suggested by the latest popularity polls. As of Wednesday, an Angus Reid poll showed the New Democrats riding atop all other parties in Quebec — with 38-per-cent support — 11 percentage points ahead of the Bloc Quebecois.

Unionized City of Courtenay workers who want a three-per-cent wage increase have voted to strike. The city workers of Courtenay, represented by CUPE 556, voted 92 per cent to strike "for fairness and respect on the job" Wednesday night.

Comox council voted in favour Wednesday of a slight reprieve for Lancaster Heights residents who were hit with a surprise parcel tax for a sanitary sewer lift station earlier this year.

A Union Bay couple denies any third-party involvement before the Union Bay Improvement District and Kensington Island Properties ratified a water treatment agreement, in response to an allegation by UBID board chair Alan de Jersey.

In the Comox Valley you only have to look up to see all that snow from a record-setting season at the Mount Washington Alpine Resort.

The public is invited to attend a Saturday reception to open a picnic pavilion at Coal Creek Historic Park, about a kilometre west of downtown Cumberland.

Comox Valley residents can vote from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. May 2 at a number of locations throughout the area.

Splitting the council votes in half, Comox council defeated a motion to fund a $8,000 grant to the Comox Recreation Commission, suggesting a grant of $4,000 instead at Wednesday's committee of the whole meeting.

Comox Valley voters can choose from six candidates to represent them and the rest of Vancouver Island North during the May 2 election.

A Comox Valley resident is facing numerous charges after being checked by police in a parked vehicle in Courtenay on Tuesday evening.