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Our Community: Firm pitches in for Woodwynn Farms

Our Community: Firm pitches in for Woodwynn Farms

An event-rental business has聽partnered with a therapeutic community to introduce altruism into its business model, producing a new kind of accountable commerce. The Wise Co.
Dangers of a humpback comeback

Dangers of a humpback comeback

As numbers of the once-endangered mammal rebound, boaters need to take precautions
Around Town: Finding fun along the Fringe

Around Town: Finding fun along the Fringe

You won鈥檛 find his name on the Victoria Fringe Festival鈥檚 guest list, but there鈥檚 one colourful character whose presence was as predictable as his overnight tweets: U.S. President Donald Trump.

Nellie McClung: The rock on which we are trying to build a better world

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on Sept. 27, 1941. The sour cynic who says it always rains on the opening day of the fair was nowhere to be seen the day our fair opened.
Robert Amos: Anawim House鈥檚 collaborative art

Robert Amos: Anawim House鈥檚 collaborative art

Anawim House, at the corner of North Park and Vancouver Street, is a house that would look at home in any suburb.
Vital People: Project aims to aid low-income tenants

Vital People: Project aims to aid low-income tenants

Vulnerable, low-income tenants in the capital region can now receive peer-to-peer support, share common tenancy concerns and bring the power of the collective voice, thanks to the newly founded Tenant Action Group, an initiative of the Together Again

Vital People: A day to celebrate fun and the community

Like most people, I鈥檓 occasionally guilty of not taking advantage of the incredible opportunities offered for recreation, learning and more, right here in our own backyard.
Vital People: Oak Bay volunteer charity marking 40 years

Vital People: Oak Bay volunteer charity marking 40 years

Oak Bay Volunteer Services is marking its 40th anniversary this year with a volunteer-engagement program to expand outreach and attract new volunteers.
Our Community: Your blood can help save lives

Our Community: Your blood can help save lives

As the Labour Day long weekend approaches, the Canadian Blood Services is calling for donors in Victoria to fill more than 550 appointments to rebuild a precarious inventory of blood.
Scent of plastic trash makes fish think it鈥檚 food, new study finds

Scent of plastic trash makes fish think it鈥檚 food, new study finds

If you thought 鈥渆mpty calories鈥 are bad for you, consider this: Plastic is ending up in the bellies of fish and other marine life 鈥 and it might not be an accident.