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Island Voices: New development can help create a city for everyone

Island Voices: New development can help create a city for everyone

Our family lives on a residential street that has several older apartment buildings. A few years ago, a young professional we knew who lived in one of the apartments purchased a small, moderate-priced condominium in a new downtown highrise.
Trevor Hancock: A prevention strategy can fix primary care

Trevor Hancock: A prevention strategy can fix primary care

Last week, I proposed that to fix primary care we need to focus on reducing the demand for care, rather than just increasing the supply of care.
Monique Keiran: Opportunities abound in citizen science

Monique Keiran: Opportunities abound in citizen science

鈥業 need a reason to come out here more often,鈥 she said. 鈥淚 love seeing how it changes through the year 鈥 the changes in vegetation, the wildflowers taking their turns, the birds coming and going.
Shared workload makes Cool Aid centre hum

Shared workload makes Cool Aid centre hum

Grey Showler is a bit of an anomaly these days. At a time when medical clinics are struggling to attract and retain family doctors, Showler has physicians coming to him, inquiring about openings at Victoria Cool Aid Society鈥檚 community health centre.

Island Voices: Narcissism is our greatest problem, not wild animals

Read the comments coming out of a recent Capital Regional District directors鈥 meeting and you鈥檇 be left thinking we were living in an earlier century, when wild animals occupied the vast majority of the planet鈥檚 biomass, and we humans and our domesti
Photos: Victoria Pride through the years

Photos: Victoria Pride through the years

What a difference 25 years makes. About 200 people showed up for Victoria鈥檚 first Pride Parade in 1994, when marchers walked along the sidewalk from Victoria City Hall to the legislature.
Lawrie McFarlane: Health group paints misleading picture of heart disease

Lawrie McFarlane: Health group paints misleading picture of heart disease

A recent study by the American Heart Association attempts to paint a troubling picture. Over the past few decades, more women have been dying from heart disease than men.
Charla Huber: Indigenous on-reserve housing not just property management

Charla Huber: Indigenous on-reserve housing not just property management

There are many misconceptions when it comes to First Nations. So often people outside the communities are so quick to judge or question why things are the way they are.
Island Voices: Ignoring expert advice leads to less advice

Island Voices: Ignoring expert advice leads to less advice

If you have been following Victoria city council since the municipal elections last fall, you have undoubtedly seen coverage of questionable policy considerations and decisions.
Monique Keiran: OK, smokers, butt 'em out right

Monique Keiran: OK, smokers, butt 'em out right

Seven fires in seven days. Langford Fire Rescue recently reported that people discarding cigarette butts had ignited seven fires in the municipality between June 19 and June聽25.