Holiday Survival Strategies Be kind to yourself. Holidays can be difficult for people who are grieving. Honoring yourself, your needs, and your feelings may be all you can manage right now. Do only as much as you can. Choose what’s best for you: to be immersed in the holiday spirit or not. Express your feelings. […]

Thank you so much to all who joined Cowichan Hospice and the Cowichan District Hospital for our Annual Light Up in Memory event last evening. Many people braved the cold temperatures and came together to honour loved ones who have died. It was truly a beautiful ceremony. Special thanks to Cari Burdett and the Lila […]

Dheepan is a compelling depiction of both human survival and the immigrant experience. Three Tamil refugees, Dheepan (Jesuthasan Antonythasan), Yalini (Kalieaswar Srinivasan) and Illayaai (Claudine Vinasithamby) use the passports of dead people and pretend to be a family and by so-doing gain entrance to France. They are settled in a housing estate near Paris where […]

Each year, many people gather together at the Annual Christmas Light Up in Memory event to remember their loved ones. Please join Cowichan Hospice and the Cowichan District Hospital for the 2016 Tree Lighting Ceremony in front of the hospital on Wednesday, December 7th.  The ceremony starts at six, there is music in the lobby at 5:30. […]