The city already has implemented all 11 of its priority actions, with five completed, including the hiring of nine additional dedicated police officers at VicPD.

Co-owner and GM Ben Thomas said the Lighthouse tasting room will be open until the end of the month—there’s a big thank-you party on Saturday—and it will hand off its stable of suds to Phillips, effective Sunday.

"They never had a deal because there’s been no decision,” Saanich Coun. Karen Harper tells Capital Daily.