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After seeing all those orange balloons and matching goodie bags at the Empress Hotel on Wednesday, I almost felt as if I鈥檇 inadvertently crashed an NDP victory celebration.

Such happy memories: Sitting beside Toni Onley on the dock, as he stoked his pipe and considered his next brush stroke; watching Maarten Schaddelee peel off a curl of cedar for a delighted child; looking on as Nancy Slaght worked on a pastel painting

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on May 4, 1940 The Red Cross is one of the few humanitarian ideas that has ever become a reality. Above the barbarism of our times, it stands out as a great monument to the 19th century.

Recently, Emily Urquhart, a Victoria writer and folklorist, took her four-year-old daughter Sadie to a birthday party. As a treat, all the little girls were given 鈥減rincess鈥� hairdos. One adult made a comment about Sadie.

More than 1,000 colourful and historic tiles on the outside of the old Oak Bay High School are being saved and mounted on a two-storey interior wall of the replacement school, now under construction.

Ada Minderhoud was six years old and living near Rotterdam when the Germans invaded Holland in 1940. It would be five years before Allied troops, many of them Canadian, liberated the country.

Doctors will soon be able to detect and diagnose the smallest cancers in their earliest stages as the Victoria Hospitals Foundation launches its聽spring campaign to fund new breast-imaging equipment for Victoria General Hospital.

Fed up after hitting a dead end in trying to find a dermatologist in Victoria to take his patients, a family doctor on Salt Spring Island used technology to build a route around it. Dr.

Dermatologist Chris Sladden leaves his young family in Kamloops for two weeks each month to work in Newfoundland. In the coastal community of Corner Brook 鈥� population 20,000 鈥� Sladden says he is paid almost double what he would earn in sa国际传媒

Cookie Dubney didn鈥檛 like hearing she had skin cancer on her face, in the corner of her eye.