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Robert Amos: Creating an organic masterpiece

Robert Amos: Creating an organic masterpiece

Forestrial Brain, a collaborative installation-painting by Matt Shane of Pender Island and Jim Holyoak of Montreal at Open Space on Fort Street, is the biggest, most complex and engaging artistic creation I can ever remember in that space, and on the
Nellie McClung: End of summer has a particular chill in wartime

Nellie McClung: End of summer has a particular chill in wartime

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on Sept. 13, 1941. When September comes, we know we are definitely facing into winter.
Around Town: Just another day at the beach

Around Town: Just another day at the beach

Despite the differences in their ages, appearances, nationalities and life experiences, most of the swimmers, sunbathers and beachcombers I met at Cadboro-Gyro Park last week had one thing in common.
Latvia mission plays to Forces’ strengths

Latvia mission plays to Forces’ strengths

Canadian troops’ multicultural makeup an advantage in foreign deployments
Our Community: Dragon boats return this week

Our Community: Dragon boats return this week

The sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Dry Victoria Dragon Boat Festival isn’t just the region’s largest Asian cultural festival, it is also an important fundraiser for the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Cancer Foundation, raising more than $700,000.
An Island trek of faith into the past

An Island trek of faith into the past

Last month, Taryn Koide, 15, spent four days helping pull a heavy handcart over about 15 kilometres of rough logging roads near Lake Cowichan. Bed was a sleeping bag on the ground; sunrise was the alarm clock. Breakfast was what she helped cook.
Robert Amos: Art is everywhere you look in Victoria

Robert Amos: Art is everywhere you look in Victoria

There are so many opportunities to view art that I hardly know which way to turn. It wasn’t always this way.

Nellie McClung: England’s beauty, our luck and nut letters in mailbag

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on Sept. 6, 1941. Like everyone else who writes on controversial matters, I have received many anonymous letters. Some of these I burn, but not all.
Our Community: Volunteers produce for food bank

Our Community: Volunteers produce for food bank

Volunteers are needed to help pick fruit to help the community as the LifeCycles Fruit Tree Project celebrates 20 years of rescuing backyard bounty.
Saanich by the numbers

Saanich by the numbers

Selected figures from the District of Saanich annual report. All figures for 2016 unless noted.