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It is possible that the report of the independent review of the budget of School District No. 61 (Victoria) will become the gold standard for reviews of school district budget processes.

If you were to ask the whales, dolphins and porpoises that live in and visit the region, they’d probably say humans aren’t the greatest neighbours. We’re dirty, messy, smelly, dangerous and noisy.

For immediate assistance for those who may need it, the National Indian Residential School Crisis Line is available 24 hours a day at 1-866-925-4419.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

They are crawling all over Saanich and Victoria, in thick bunches on the Peninsula and in Langford. They’ve been spotted in Metchosin.

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.