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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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Environment

Local conservation groups launch bid to buy North Pender Island forest

By Emily Fagan
November 26, 2020

Currently owned by a Victoria pair, the 12.95-acre S,DÁYES Flycatcher Forest is home to Coastal Douglas-fir, wetlands, and 35 species of birds

City Hall

Victoria by-election voting starts next week. Here's what you need to know.

By Omar Washington
November 26, 2020

Ten candidates are vying for Laurel Collins's seat, offering competing policies on housing, transportation, climate change and more.

Sports

How local athletes are coping with the maddening limbo of the Olympic postponement

By Ben Waterworth
November 19, 2020

It’s a delicate dance to be at one’s peak in time for the games, and a delay can throw that into jeopardy

COVID-19

Where all these new COVID cases are coming from

By Harley Gordon
November 18, 2020

Here is how to avoid the most likely situations for infection

Transportation

Could passenger rail down the E&N solve Victoria's congestion woes?

By Andrew Findlay
November 14, 2020

By 2038, a drive from Mill Bay to Victoria is expected to take 2 hours and 24 minutes

Furniture Lore

Victoria’s lost IKEA

By Omar Washington
November 13, 2020

For a brief, shining moment in the 1980s, Vancouver Islanders didn’t need to organize elaborate excursions to the mainland to get Swedish flat-packed furniture

Homelessness

The devastating effect Victoria's hotel-shelters have had on surrounding businesses

By Anna J. James
November 12, 2020

“The main problem is that they [BC Housing] did not ask anyone before they bought these hotels,” furniture retailer Gordy Dodd told Capital Daily

Remembrance

“There are hundreds of bodies lying about unburied": Vivid accounts of war from Vancouver Islanders

By Capital Daily Staff
November 11, 2020

In this special Remembrance Day feature, excerpts of diaries, letters and oral histories from both world wars, some published here for the first time

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