Victoria's all-important service and hospitality industries have been hit particularly hard

Clean rooms, round-the-clock outreach workers, and semi-regular fires

Shutdown, which will divert 2,500 vehicles daily, intended to help downtown recovery

Stresses of COVID-19 have caused a 100% increase in mental health referrals in some cases

Encampments will remain, but be urged to move into other parts of the park

More than two months after their sudden closure, the Royal Theatre, Craigdarroch Castle, Saanich Commonwealth Place and others remain eerily empty

It wasn't inevitable that Canada would see 7,000 dead from COVID-19. This is the story of the missed decisions and ignored warnings of the greatest Canadian public health failure of modern times.

New plan comes after Victoria had previously pushed for hotel rooms to be forcibly seized by the province