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Our Community: Young leaders join art event to help Our Place

Our Community: Young leaders join art event to help Our Place

Our Place Society has joined with artist Elfrida Schragen to recognize some of the region’s most remarkable young people. The Admired Youth exhibit has been set up in the Hillside Shopping Centre, next to sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½
Charla Huber: To the 215 children and their families: 'What happened to you?'

Charla Huber: To the 215 children and their families: 'What happened to you?'

This past week there has been a lot of awareness and protest in honour of the 215 children whose remains were located on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. People have been wearing orange shirts to honour them.
Trevor Hancock: On climate, it's short-term pain for long-term gain, backed by courts

Trevor Hancock: On climate, it's short-term pain for long-term gain, backed by courts

One of the biggest challenges in addressing climate change is that it’s a very slow-moving ­crisis. We need to take action now in order to avert problems many years, even decades, into the future, but our system is biased against such action.
Our Community: $126,000 donation for Vic High bursary; a bus driver's kind gesture

Our Community: $126,000 donation for Vic High bursary; a bus driver's kind gesture

1940 Vic High grad’s estate donates $126,000 for bursary The Victoria High School Alumni Association has received a $126,000 donation from the estate of a woman who graduated from the Fernwood school in 1940.
Blue-eyed white ravens make central Vancouver Island home

Blue-eyed white ravens make central Vancouver Island home

The legend of the white raven continues in Coombs. The mysterious snow-white ravens are only known to exist on the mid-Island and have been documented there for more than two decades.
Invasion of the wall lizards: They are beyond eradication on Island

Invasion of the wall lizards: They are beyond eradication on Island

They are crawling all over Saanich and Victoria, in thick bunches on the Peninsula and in Langford. They’ve been spotted in Metchosin.
Charla Huber: Learning a lesson from the slowest runner at the meet

Charla Huber: Learning a lesson from the slowest runner at the meet

COVID-19 has been a long haul, one where the safety of our children has been in the forefront of all parents’ minds. Watching my child walk into school each day wearing a mask is a very visual reminder that the world is not always safe.
Lawrie McFarlane: Mere allegation against Fortin is career-destroying

Lawrie McFarlane: Mere allegation against Fortin is career-destroying

The man in charge of rolling out sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½â€™s COVID-19 vaccine supply, Maj.-Gen Dany Fortin, has been forced to step down following allegations of sexual misconduct.
Trevor Hancock: sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ flunks international biodiversity targets

Trevor Hancock: sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ flunks international biodiversity targets

Since last week’s column about sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½â€™s sad new reputation as a hotspot for biodiversity loss, a troubling report — the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Biodiversity Report Card — was released by the Wilderness Committee and Ecojustice.
Monique Keiran: New research shows salmon-farm industry likely introduced virus

Monique Keiran: New research shows salmon-farm industry likely introduced virus

While fish-farm companies operating in the Discovery Islands are turning to the courts to challenge the federal Fisheries minister’s recent decision to end aquaculture in that region, new research provides evidence the salmon farming industry may be