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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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Crime

The grisly murder that horrified turn-of-the-century Victoria

By Capital Daily Staff
October 30, 2020

The killing, committed in complete darkness on the Vic West side of the Johnson Street Bridge, drew comparisons to the work of Jack the Ripper 

COVID-19

How deadly is COVID-19? Here’s what the numbers say. 

By Tristin Hopper
October 29, 2020

If you’re a toddler, it’s safer than the flu. If you’re a senior, it’s deadlier than the Spanish Flu. 

Homelessness

“It’s a slum”: Residents at Victoria's hotel-shelters describe hotbeds of crime, disorder

By Anna J. James
October 27, 2020

One resident of the Howard Johnson tells Capital Daily “it's getting taken over by people selling dope”

BC Election 2020

GRAPHIC: How Vancouver Island voted

By Tristan Pratt
October 25, 2020

The NDP took both Andrew Weaver's former seat and the Island's last BC Liberal riding

Healthcare

The Vancouver Island doctor shortage, explained

By Sol Dolor
October 23, 2020

Thousands of Islanders have virtually no prospect of finding a primary physician, but the solution may not be more doctors

Homelessness

What is the government’s end game on tent cities?

By Capital Daily Staff
October 22, 2020

Everybody wants the tents gone, but few have produced plans to actually get people clean and off the street

Forestry

Is BC cutting down all its old-growth forest?

By Harley Gordon
October 21, 2020

Cutting down primordial forests is still a key part of BC's forestry sector, but for how much longer is anybody's guess

Energy

Is BC giving $1 billion a year to fossil fuel companies?

By Ian King
October 20, 2020

Claims that the NDP has dramatically increased fossil fuel subsidies has become a key plank of the Greens’ 2020 campaign

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