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The Downtown Victoria Business Association is helping its members keep Christmas spending local, launching a Downtown Delivers program on Monday that will see free deliveries of goods to customers from Sooke to Sidney.

Greater Victoria’s unemployment rate dipped to 6.3 per cent last month, as sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½â€™s pandemic recovery placed it in a favourable third place among provinces with the lowest rates. The capital region’s unemployment rate — which had reached 11.

During these times of self-isolation, family bubbles and lockdowns, Tinka Robev and Andrew Azzopardi have put some interesting twists into a good old-fashioned pastime.

Vancouver Island communities north of the Malahat are banding together to lure technology businesses to their region.

Mel Cooper, who for the past 14 years has led the Telus ­Victoria Community Board, has decided to step aside, but not down, from his position as chair.

Donna Friedlander has a lot of hungry mouths to feed and little income to put hay in the stable. Like so many tourism operators, the owner of Tally-Ho ­Carriage Tours has been slammed by the pandemic, ­initially by the closing of the U.S.

Rudy Tomazic admits he had second thoughts about opening a new bar in the middle of a pandemic.

Victor Nicolov got an early Christmas present last week, when Time magazine named the Sepura home-composting system one of its 100 inventions of the year.