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Driftwood Brewery opens new tasting room experience in Esquimalt

By Brishti Basu
November 19, 2021

The tasting room opens alongside new offerings from breweries across the city. How will it fare?

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Chef on the Run’s homestyle English cuisine remains a Sidney staple after 25 years

By Brishti Basu
October 30, 2021

More and more people relied on the business as an essential service during the pandemic

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Syrian refugee’s catering business takes off through Facebook

By Brishti Basu
October 23, 2021

Safaa Naeman’s Syriana Catering is struggling to keep up with demand

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He wanted to build a ski yurt. Others wanted to log. Ecological concerns killed only one of the proposals

By Andrew Findlay
October 19, 2021

There’s a battle in the backwoods of BC between adventure tourism and raw resource extraction, and according to some, tourism is losing in a big way.

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‘It was like serendipity’: How a second-generation Victoria bookseller gave Bastion Books new life

By Brishti Basu
September 25, 2021

Since the 90’s, local bookstores have been disappearing in droves. Alex Cruikshank decided to buy one anyway

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Steve Wallace had a reputation for sexually harassing teenage girls in Quesnel decades before launching his Victoria driving school

As Wallace rose through Quesnel—from teacher, to mayor, to provincial candidate—more than a dozen women say he was sexually harassing them in school, in cars, and in beauty pageants