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Our Community: $100,000 donation from Peninsula Co-op for Blue Love Campaign

Our Community: $100,000 donation from Peninsula Co-op for Blue Love Campaign

The United Way of Greater Victoria has launched a campaign to help people across Vancouver Island looking for mental-health support as they deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Victoria Unbuttoned: Maud Lord and the capital city's red light district

Victoria Unbuttoned: Maud Lord and the capital city's red light district

Victoria-based author Linda J. Eversole first began researching Victoria’s red-light history to tell the incredible story of Stella: Unrepentant Madam .
Geoff Johnson: Online course on history of math an idea whose time has come

Geoff Johnson: Online course on history of math an idea whose time has come

The good news for scientists, business people, computer developers, economists, teachers and people in data-related professions of every kind is that math has become cool again. In fact, math has become cool even for non-mathematicians.
Our Community: sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ citizenship medals, rehab program, PAC awards

Our Community: sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ citizenship medals, rehab program, PAC awards

Salvation Army launches live-in drug-and-alcohol recovery program The Salvation Army has launched a new live-in drug-and-alcohol recovery program to respond to the 1,716 deaths from illicit-drug overdose in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ in 2020.
Charla Huber: Find some magic in the last leg of this pandemic journey

Charla Huber: Find some magic in the last leg of this pandemic journey

We’re all experiencing our second pandemic Easter. I am not sure if it’s easier because we know what to expect, or harder because we know what to expect.
Nothing 'liberal' about colonial policy prior to Confederation

Nothing 'liberal' about colonial policy prior to Confederation

After 30 years of treaty talks, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission findings, and the adoption of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, First Nations still face racism on a systemic basis in this province.
Monique Keiran: Songbirds trying to be heard over traffic again, after last spring's quiet

Monique Keiran: Songbirds trying to be heard over traffic again, after last spring's quiet

Love — that special kind of sappy, springtime love, or lurv — is in the air, but the signals aren’t coming through as clearly as they did last year. I’ve heard eagles whistling to their mates and raven pairs chortling to each other.
Lawrie McFarlane: Erin O'Toole should learn lessons from Trump

Lawrie McFarlane: Erin O'Toole should learn lessons from Trump

If the Canadian Sleepwalkers Association wants hints about how to hold a convention, they need look no further than last month’s federal Conservative conference.
Trevor Hancock: No, Victoria council is not the devil incarnate

Trevor Hancock: No, Victoria council is not the devil incarnate

As an internationally acknowledged expert on the creation of healthier cities and communities, I have been observing with both bemusement and concern the furor in this newspaper’s letters page over Victoria city council’s actions on bike lanes, homel
Anny Scoones: Book of letters offers new perspective on Canadian history

Anny Scoones: Book of letters offers new perspective on Canadian history

I just spent a delightful week teaching writing to a lovely, intelligent group of children on their spring break.