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Events happening in Greater Victoria this July

Emily Edwards
July 3, 2026

Stages across the region pulse with everything from Afro-Cuban jazz to acoustic Grateful Dead to award-winning blues.

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Infrastructure

‘It’s really elitist’: Trail use fees coming for Bear Mountain

by Aaron Guillen
June 8, 2021

Network of trails will no longer have free public access

Transportation

What Victoria’s long-lost streetcars can tell us about the future

By Tim Ford
June 8, 2021

Victoria grew up around a streetcar system that carried Victoria’s entire population every two days. Now the city is wrestling with transportation questions that could benefit from some old-fashioned wisdom

Environment

Bikes, bears, and biologists: can mountain biking coexist with nature?

By Kathryn Helmore
June 7, 2021

The growth of mountain biking on the South Island is raising fundamental questions about the nature of parks

Business

Why Nathan Smith is compelled to add diversity in commercial photography

By Josh Kozelj
June 5, 2021

Smith uses inclusion, human stories, to set himself apart from other photographers

COVID-19

UPDATED: Vancouver Island vaccination tracker

The latest information on COVID-19 vaccination plans and progress on Vancouver Island

Good news

Our Place paints young changemakers at centre of fundraising initiative

By Emily Fagan
June 4, 2021

For the next six weeks, portraits of young local leaders will be up for bid at the Hillside Mall

COVID-19

How safe is BC’s safe restart plan for Vancouver Island?

By Brishti Basu
June 3, 2021

Uncertainties, questions, and data gaps continue to plague BC’s provincial restart plan as we inch closer and closer to pre-COVID life

Immigration

Palestinians in Victoria find comfort in numbers

By Brishti Basu
June 2, 2021

Hundreds attended a May rally, the first time many in the community had found one another

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