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No one wants horses to suffer just so tourists can enjoy a carriage ride. But there is no evidence that’s happening.

The sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Teachers’ Federation has a new president. Glen Hansman has been elected to replace Jim Iker, who stepped down after serving three terms.

The City of Victoria wants to see supervised drug-injection sites in the city by the end of the year. A lot of work will have to go into making sure their benefits don’t come with a lot of unwanted side-effects.

When 89-year-old Alban Michael died last month, something else died with him. The Vancouver Island man was believed to be the last fluent speaker of Nuchatlaht, one of the West Coast aboriginal languages.

As he was granting wishes in the new federal government’s first budget, Finance Minister Bill Morneau waved his magic wand over sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Ferries. And the corporation saved $50 million.

Development has displaced too much food production, but people like urban farmer Chris Hildreth are showing it doesn’t have to be that way. Hildreth is setting out 2,400 pots on vacant land at Dockside Green.

It’s rare that a community’s future could hang on a single decision by a municipal council.

Young Tessa Williams is alive today thanks to a double miracle. The 15-year-old from Black Creek north of Courtenay has a rare form of liver cancer — only 200 people worldwide are diagnosed with the disease each year.

As marine incidents go, the grounding of two barges on the beach along Dallas Road was a minor one. But it provides a glimpse of how difficult and challenging it can be to set things right when accidents happen along the coast.

Fierce criticism erupted when the government of Saskatchewan sent two homeless men to sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ They were given one-way bus tickets to Vancouver and Victoria by the province’s social services ministry, and basically shown the door.