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The Canadian Hockey League opened this weekend with major-junior — once the gold standard in terms of player development — at a crossroads.

A local golfer who spent 10 hours trying to hit a hole-in-one came still away happy, receiving more than $10,000 for his efforts.

The Bulldog and the Helix: DNA and the Pursuit of Justice in a Frontier Town By Shayne Morrow Heritage House, 209 pp., $22.

Artist Luke Ramsey has begun work on the Bowker Creek Mural. The new painting will be on the wall overlooking the Jack Wallace Track at Oak Bay High School and is expected to take at least one full month to complete.

Planning a salmon barbecue? Your options will be limited this year. With a complete 2019 closure on Fraser River sockeye, due to dismal returns, your options are to buy Alaska sockeye or farmed Atlantic salmon.

The polar bear has become the poster child for climate change impacts in the Arctic. Sea ice, which the bears depend on for hunting, is melting at an ever-expanding rate. For other species, climate impacts are not as direct.

This is my final column about Tyler, the fictional young offender whose story was told in a 2016 Public Safety sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ report.

With elections hovering ominously over the remains of truth and reality both here in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ and later in the U.S.

Ah, the rose. A beautiful presence. A short-lived bloom. But once done, just the thorns to see.

I am not a big fan of surveys, and I have to admit that most of the time when I am sent a survey link, I don’t complete it.