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Job training offered to Greater Victoria’s unemployed

Called the Employment Skills Access Initiative, the aim is to help people find work by getting them industry-recognized credentials
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UPDATE: Health, environmental groups call for B.C. pesticide ban

Provincial regulation could trump unenforceable local bylaws
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Soup kitchen forced to close doors

Soup kitchen forced to close doors

Rainbow Kitchen volunteers working to secure new site
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Gender discrimination complaint resolved at Oak Bay police

Separate case of racial discrimination yet to be settled
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Reaching out to the military community

Reaching out to the military community

CFB Esquimalt commander navy Capt. Craig Baines broadens his reach to military and civilian personnel in some surprising ways
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Police see rise in urban deer poaching

Deer hunting season is in full swing on the South Island. But along with the legal hunters comes a rise in the number of poachers
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Adopted dogs: never a good gift idea

Adopted dogs: never a good gift idea

“It’s not anything that should ever be given on an impulse. If your mother-in-law wants a dog then she should be the one to apply.”
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Victoria residents brace for utility fee increase

Increases on the way for sewer, solid waste and water utilities.
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Chafe house could be demolished if repairs become too costly

Residents learn the Saxe Point Park house doesn't have to stay up indefinitely
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Man guilty of manslaughter receives jail time

Judge call his actions 'very,very careless' in death of street person
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