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News In Victoria: Latest Stories

Health

BC's worsening overdose crisis, graphed

By Snejana Vorona
August 12, 2020

The peripheral effects of COVID-19 have exacerbated an opioid crisis that, until recently, was trending downwards

Homelessness

Where are Victoria's homeless coming from?

By Anna J. James
August 11, 2020

“Most of the people we see are from somewhere else,” an outreach worker told The Capital

COVID-19

Is it safe to send children back to school?

By Harley Gordon
August 8, 2020

Unlike almost all infectious disease pandemics throughout history, this one leaves children largely unscathed

Disaster

What the Beirut explosion would have done to Victoria

Virtually the entire historic downtown would have been flattened

Crime

Inside Victoria's bike theft underground

By Anna J. James
August 4, 2020

One trick involves thieves hacking into condo security systems to gain access to bike storage lockers

History

The British Columbia that might have been

By Terry Glavin
August 3, 2020

BC began as a model to the world of multi-ethnic settlers living peacefully among self-governing indigenous peoples—and then it all went wrong

COVID-19

How COVID-19 began

By Harley Gordon
August 2, 2020

We definitely know it comes from a Chinese bat, but that's where it gets murky

Housing

Meet Omrane and Sarah—the entrepreneurs about to lose their home

By Jimmy Thomson
August 1, 2020

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