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Beacon Community Services is transferring all of its home-support program to Island Health. The move will affect 850 staff, each of whom has been guaranteed that jobs and salary scales will be preserved.

If anyone knows what to do when a tsunami siren goes off, it should be the residents of Port Alberni. But that city鈥檚 experience last year is a warning to all of us coastal dwellers. A study of what happened on Jan.

After a bruising budget process, the Victoria Police Department has enough money from the city to avoid layoffs, but it comes with some questionable budget contortions. Victoria councillors approved a 3.

Tuesday鈥檚 federal budget was widely perceived as an attempt to boost the government鈥檚 standing before this fall鈥檚 general election.

As Greater Victoria strives to solve its traffic congestion, boats are once again being tossed into the mix.

With an election on the way, the federal government is spreading money around in the budget announced Tuesday. While Islanders will benefit from some of that cash, it comes with a cost: more budget deficits.

Young people in Victoria and about 1,000 other communities went on strike on Friday to try to save their future. They see climate change threatening the world they must grow up in. They want action.

It appears we could be inching closer to a national pharmacare program. An expert panel appointed by the federal government has made interim recommendations that look much like the prelude to such a step.

Langford鈥檚 heart is in the right place, but its leaders should be wary of setting precedents. The city is shelling out up to $10,000 to help people whose homes were flooded by a water-main break. When a water main burst on Strathmore Road on Feb.

When we elect politicians to serve us, we expect them to stick around and do the job. We feel annoyed and even betrayed when they ride off in search of greener electoral pastures. Victoria Coun. Laurel Collins has become the latest in a string of B.