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COURAGE: Novelist delves into life after combat

Katrin Horowitz saw inspiration on the face of a cohort when the woman announced her husband had just volunteered to go to Afghanistan.

Nov 10, 2013 5:00 AM Read more >

Colquitz creek in Saanich no worse for wear

Oil hasn’t returned, but fish have, after excavation project

Nov 9, 2013 3:00 PM Read more >

Eat out and help the food bank

StreetSmart encourages diners to add $1 to their restaurant bill with proceeds going to two Victoria food banks

Nov 9, 2013 11:00 AM Read more >

West Shore Montessori expands to offer new middle school program

West-Mont Montessori school in Metchosin is expanding to offer middle school for Grade 7 and 8 students in the fall.

Nov 9, 2013 5:00 AM Read more >

BC NDP review blames 2013 election loss on 'positive campaign' shortcomings

Party leader Adrian Dix announced in September that he is resigning, but will stay in position until 2014.

Nov 8, 2013 6:00 PM Read more >

Ukrainian community marks Holodomor tragedy

The Holodomor, or “extermination by hunger” was a manmade famine in the Ukrainian and adjacent Cossack territories in 1932 and 1933

Nov 8, 2013 2:00 PM Read more >

Victoria backyard garbage pickup stays: for a cost

Victoria taxpayers will pay an additional $20 per year for the service

Nov 8, 2013 12:00 PM Read more >

Minister rejects report of ALR demise

Proposal to dismantle agricultural land commission "so secret I don't even know about it myself," Bill Bennett says

Nov 8, 2013 11:00 AM Read more >

Will we forget?

A movement to re-imagine Nov. 11 appears to be nibbling away at the sanctity of Canada’s day of remembrance

Nov 8, 2013 9:00 AM Read more >

The good and bad of Victoria during the Great War

New UVic website offers archive of city history, a way to remember those lost in First World War

Nov 8, 2013 7:00 AM Read more >