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Environment

Oak Bay has 28,000 new residents: Bowker Creek’s chum salmon eggs

By Emily Fagan
February 4, 2022

Meet the people leading the Bowker Creek Salmon resurgence

COVID-19

‘Mass disabling event’: advocates fear tsunami of long COVID patients as Omicron spreads unchecked

By Brishti Basu
February 2, 2022

There are still a lot of unknowns about the post-viral syndrome, and COVID long haulers are struggling to find support

City Hall

Here’s what you need to know about Saanich’s plan for an Uptown core

By Martin Bauman
February 1, 2022

The plan includes new density and transit options, and a reimagining of Oak Street

Good news

It takes a village to build a village: prototype Conestoga hut created to model new option for safe sheltering in Victoria

By Emily Fagan
January 28, 2022

Community members look to ‘start a conversation’ about the need for more emergency shelters

Healthcare

Westshore drug users are suffering in silence: harm reduction worker

By Zoë Ducklow
January 27, 2022

'If you deny that the need is there, then you'll never build the services and you'll never see it.'

Environment

Fairy Creek injunction is back in place by order of the BC appeal court

By Zoë Ducklow
January 27, 2022

The original injunction expired in October, but a temporary injunction has been active since

Health

Advocates and researchers say people with disabilities are left out of BC COVID strategy

By Astra Lincoln
January 22, 2022

Some people with disabilities feel they're being asked to stay home so that 'everybody else can get on with life'