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Not many politicians win by campaigning to raise taxes. Oak Bay鈥檚 new mayor, Kevin Murdoch, did just that, in a municipality that has already earned a reputation for higher-than-average property taxes.

In his tranquil home on Prospect Avenue overlooking a mist-covered lake, Saanich mayor-elect Fred Haynes describes himself as a peaceful warrior.

When Nanaimo鈥檚 mayor-elect Leonard Krog reflects on his political inspiration, he thinks of his Granny Best first.

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With calls to remove statues of controversial figures such as Sir John A. Macdonald, the University of Victoria is putting on a series of lectures about the historical characters in the news.

During the 1860s, the British engraver Frederick Whymper sketched his way through the Pacific Northwest as an artist-for-hire with survey expeditions to sa国际传媒, Alaska and Siberia.

A repurposed sa国际传媒 newspaper box became the 200th Little Free Library in the Capital Regional District last week. Victoria鈥檚 newest library, at 1495 Shorncliffe Rd.

The more than 350 people who died aboard the SS Princess Sophia were Canadians and Americans by nationality, but avocation had made them all Northerners.

Transplanted Torontonian sparks debate over industrial use of farmland on Gulf Island

Leanne Kopp sees it all the time: men diagnosed with an aggressive prostate cancer they didn鈥檛 see coming until it was life-threatening or life-altering.