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Book excerpt: A Year on the Wild Side

Book excerpt: A Year on the Wild Side

Salt Spring Island naturalist, artist and author Briony Penn has spent decades studying the flora and fauna of the West Coast.
Our Community: Rain Walk raises $40K for cancer patients

Our Community: Rain Walk raises $40K for cancer patients

InspireHealth鈥檚 third annual Rain Walk in Victoria this month raised more than $40,000 to support local cancer patients and their loved ones.
Photo gallery: 30 years later, Exxon Valdez spill leaves lasting scars

Photo gallery: 30 years later, Exxon Valdez spill leaves lasting scars

ANCHORAGE, Alaska 鈥 It was just after midnight on March 24, 1989, when an Exxon Shipping Co. tanker ran aground outside the town of Valdez, Alaska, spewing millions of litres of thick, toxic crude oil into the pristine Prince William Sound.
Langford to Lake Cowichan: A three-day inn-to-inn hike you鈥檒l never forget

Langford to Lake Cowichan: A three-day inn-to-inn hike you鈥檒l never forget

Itinerary and tips for an 85-kilometre trek along the Sooke Hills Wilderness Trail and the Cowichan Valley Trail
Writers challenged to reflect lives of Indigenous people on the street

Writers challenged to reflect lives of Indigenous people on the street

The Oasis Society, a non-profit organization for urban Indigenous people, wants to help Victorians to 鈥淪ee With New Eyes and Hear With New Ears鈥 when they look at people on the streets.
Trip to doctor for 'cold' led to discovery of cancer in lung

Trip to doctor for 'cold' led to discovery of cancer in lung

This is one of a series of stories about the Victoria Hospitals Foundation鈥檚 You Are Vital campaign. In some ways, it鈥檚 fortunate that Pete Kenyon caught that cold back in 2008; it might just have saved his life.
Our Community: Donation aids Cowichan hospital

Our Community: Donation aids Cowichan hospital

Dr. Sylvester Chuang, a retired physician and owner of several businesses on Vancouver Island, donated $58,000 to support a new hospital in Cowichan last week.
Our Community: Heart society donates to hospital fund

Our Community: Heart society donates to hospital fund

The First Open Heart Society has donated $45,000 to the Victoria Hospitals Foundation in support of heart health at Royal Jubilee Hospital. The society has donated more than $776,500 to the Victoria Hospitals Foundation since 1977.
Putting moms and newborns first at Victoria General Hospital

Putting moms and newborns first at Victoria General Hospital

Vital tools help neonatal medical staff diagnose and treat babies with serious conditions
Island surgical team making a difference in Guatemala

Island surgical team making a difference in Guatemala

On a medical-assistance trip to rural Guatemala seven years ago, Victoria anesthesiologist Dr.