Police were on Pandora Ave for nearly eight hours on Sunday night
Brishti Basu is a reporter based in Victoria. She speaks English, Bengali, and Hindi. She is a generalist that primarily covers social issues and the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as issues relevant to Victoria and Vancouver Island. Basu began her career in journalism as a reporter with Victoria Buzz in 2017, and has been published in places like VICE, The Tyee, National Geographic, BBC Future, and more. Her work so far covers a wide range of topics, from systematic racism to climate change, marine mammal welfare to culinary nomenclature, and beyond.
After police used an armoured truck, K9 unit, irritant gas, and more to take one unarmed Black man into custody, he spent a month and a half in the hospital and lost his home
Six years into the toxic drug poisoning crisis, deaths on Pandora Avenue have become a weekly affair, an outreach worker says
A family doctor who worked at nine clinics across Victoria tells us why she quit after eight months, and how a new fee structure could help save the system
Decision comes amid budget challenges, focus on crisis counselling services
