sa国际传媒

We asked readers to share the moment they realized the world was now different due to the pandemic. For some, it was the changes in day-to-day life: empty shelves at stores, the sudden closing of libraries and community centres, the empty streets.

Last week, I wrote about Stella, the stubborn and 鈥渦nrepentant madam鈥� from Victoria鈥檚 early days. In honour of International Women鈥檚 Day, there are three present-day local women I鈥檇 like to mention, too.

Fundraising concert for childhood leukemia The Organized Khaos Percussion Ensemble presented a $2,500 cheque this past week to the family of a former Spencer 颅Middle School student being treated at Vancouver General Hospital for leukemia.

Two great horned owls have been courting in a nearby park. We can hear them hooting and cooing every night. Sometimes we hear them during the day, too. Even more rarely, we see them.

I鈥檝e been having the same strange 颅nightmare lately. I dream I am spending time with friends and going to parties. I am enjoying myself and everything is going great, then it hits me that we are still in a pandemic and aren鈥檛 allowed to gather.

Troubling new revelations have surfaced about how pharmaceutical companies price their vaccines.

Saanich police take a dip for Special Olympics Uniformed officers from the Saanich Police Department鈥檚 Community Engagement Division took a (quick) dip in the chilly waters of Cadboro Bay to raise money and awareness for Special Olympics sa国际传媒

I often think that a person鈥檚 great successes or tragic failures depend on how their ducks are lined up 鈥� the order of the ducks, the number of ducks, when they enter your life.

Something good is happening: We are finally starting to question the economy and the way it works 鈥� or fails to work 鈥� for us and for nature, which sustains us.

The success of Lake Cowichan author Teresa Schapansky鈥檚 Coinkeeper 鈥� The Avery Chronicles, a high-interest, low-vocabulary series designed to capture the attention of emerging or reluctant readers, brought to mind a student in a Grade 8 鈥渕odified鈥� cl