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Garry Oak Restoration Project strives to preserve Garry oak ecosystems

Chances are, most people know what a  Garry oak is. They’ve walked under them in parks and on shaded streets.  What some might not know is the important role they…

Sex workers in Victoria get by with little help from their friends

UPDATE: According to the PEERS website (safersexwork.ca), the PEERS drop-in centre is now only open for a couple of hours one day a week, due to funding cuts. While its Elements…

Sagacity: Victoria’s local alternative lifestyle society

Sagacity is Victoria’s longest running alternative lifestyle society, founded in 2000. In the time since then, alternative, kink, fetish, and BDSM lifestyles have become a little more mainstream due to…

Victoria welcomes 50 new Tibetan residents

The Project Tibet Society held a public forum Jan. 24, to inform the public of a project resettling up to 50 Tibetans in Victoria. The 50 people to take up…

Community meets to discuss future of B.C. schools

On Jan. 23, members of the community assembled at UVic for a panel discussion on signs and potential dangers of schools in B.C. moving to privatization and commercialization. The panel…

Royal B.C. Museum recovers stolen pieces of B.C. history

It wasn’t quite like the well-executed heists people have come accustomed to seeing in Hollywood action films such as Ocean’s Eleven or The Thomas Crown Affair. There were no Brad…

B.C. author’s short story stirs controversy in Russia

A short story turned children’s story has been passed around Russia for the past year, stirring up controversy. Although, at its core, it is a story about a Russian prince…

Community members come together to make record-breaking button blanket

Victoria’s Legacy Art Gallery is currently showcasing an Indigenous button blanket (dancing regalia) that is six metres tall and six metres wide: a world record. Peter Morin and Carolyn Butler-Palmer,…

Victoria wraps up 2013 with zero homicides—almost

Living on the Island, many come to think of it as a distinct entity, separate from the happenings and kafuffle of the Lower Mainland. In 2013, Victoria set itself apart…