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Vital People: A kitchen for the community

Vital People: A kitchen for the community

The Shelbourne Community Kitchen will be able to meet the increased need for food-security programming thanks to funding by the Victoria Foundation for a sustainability project.

Vital People: Taking the Pulse of Greater Victoria

As you鈥檙e reading this column, copies of our annual magazine, Pulse, are hitting the shelves around Greater Victoria, inviting you to take a read and discover what鈥檚 happening in our local non-profit community.

Go west, young pine: Forests shift with climate change

WASHINGTON 鈥 A warmer, wetter climate is helping push dozens of eastern U.S. trees to the north and, surprisingly, west, a new study finds. The eastern white pine is going west, more than 130 kilometres since the early 1980s.
Festival a celebration of aboriginal culture

Festival a celebration of aboriginal culture

If a picture is worth a thousand words, there鈥檚 a good bet that three days of colourful cultural overload may have gone a long way to initiating dialogue and building bridges between sa国际传媒鈥檚 First Nation communities and the rest of the province.
鈥業 married a sociopathic fraud鈥

鈥業 married a sociopathic fraud鈥

New book explores former CHEK-TV host's life with an unstable con man
Around Town: Getting fired up for Ska Fest

Around Town: Getting fired up for Ska Fest

When the lead singer for Mexico City鈥檚 Out of Control Army punctuated the band鈥檚 brassy intro with 鈥淎re you ready to ska?鈥 at Ship Point Wednesday afternoon, it was a question he really didn鈥檛 have to ask.
Robert Amos: Museum artist brings the past to life

Robert Amos: Museum artist brings the past to life

Jean Jacques Andr茅 came to Victoria from Marseilles, France, where he had trained at the museum of natural history, and worked as a taxidermist.

Nellie McClung: Why can鈥檛 we learn to make the truth fight for us?

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on July 19, 1941. It is a pity that good white paper should be blotted with ugly words.
Reef rescuers fight to outrace climate change

Reef rescuers fight to outrace climate change

Using techniques pioneered in the Pacific, researchers aim to regrow dying coral
Wreck to remain in century-old watery grave

Wreck to remain in century-old watery grave

U.S. coast guard cutter McCulloch was recently discovered, 100 years after passenger-ship collision that sank it