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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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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

This is part one of a series of previews of our upcoming feature on housing and water on Salt Spring Island, for subscribers only.

Homelessness

Inside the City of Victoria’s case against the Beacon Hill tenters

By Anna J. James
July 30, 2020

It took a city audit, drone surveys and hundreds of pages of legal documents to move 60 campers from one part of Beacon Hill Park to another part

Housing

Meet Rhonan Heitzmann—the water delivery man with big ideas for Salt Spring’s future

By Jimmy Thomson
July 29, 2020

This is part three of a series of previews of our upcoming feature on housing and water on Salt Spring Island, for subscribers only.

Housing

Meet Fernando Dos Santos—who is wading through bureaucracy to create housing

By Jimmy Thomson
July 29, 2020

This is part two of a series of previews of our upcoming feature on housing and water on Salt Spring Island, for subscribers only. For part three, see below.

COVID-19

Victoria's unemployment isn't as bad as you think

By Leo Spalteholz
July 26, 2020

The city lost a lot of jobs to COVID-19, but the rebound has been equally dramatic

COVID-19

Fighting COVID-19 with tobacco: How Vancouver Island research is taking on the pandemic

Home coronavirus tests, an antivirus door handle coating and forensic work into when the earliest cases were among us

Health

How thousands of Canadian care home residents are being sedated with potentially deadly drugs

By Tori Marlan
July 19, 2020

In some senior's homes, up to half of all residents have been prescribed potentially dangerous anti-psychotics not for psychosis, but because it makes them easier to handle

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