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"Welcome home' ceremonies held across Canada

Victoria city council delays meeting to avoid lawsuit over development permit

Layton, 61, stepped down as the New Democratic leader last month after revealing he was battling a second bout of cancer. The official opposition leader was frail and gaunt during an appearance July 25, after fighting off prostate cancer last year.

49 Canadian aboriginal youth graduate from military training program at CFB Esquimalt

B.C.'s high school grads were leaving millions in scholarship money on the table by not writing optional final exams, so the education ministry has changed the system to make sure the aid gets to students who do well on mandatory tests.

Nesting seagulls prompt needling response

Tributes are pouring in for federal New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton, who died of cancer early Monday at age 61. Layton's death comes just months after Layton led the NDP to Official Opposition status in Canadian Parliament, a first for the party.

Canada's men’s Olympic rowing team, which has trained in Saanich since 1987, is looking for even more local training space to prepare for London next year and Rio in 2016.

The family founded Jennings Florists in 1920, which is still in operation in Oak Bay and was the birthplace of Art Knapp plant stores. Reitsma, a Tsawwassen resident, along with Jennings Bazin, her six other children and some-100 relatives, gathered earlier this month to celebrate the anniversary. Descendants of William and Frank came from as far away as Manitoba, met and all shared a love of horticulture, among other things, Reitsma said.

Last week, StudentAid B.C. stripped 13 schools of their official designation and left students attending those institutions faced with funding their education independently. Since 2006, post-secondary institutions that have default rates – the percentage of student loan borrowers with loan payments in default – above 28 per cent for four or more consecutive years are subject to a designation review by StudentAid B.C. Designations are revoked for a minimum of two years.