News In Victoria: Latest Stories

Good news

The end of the overdose crisis will take all of our collaboration—here’s how to get started

By Emily Fagan
August 27, 2021

Local organizations have made strides in combating toxic drugs and overdoses, but wider public support would make a big difference

Business

Mixed mandates: businesses and education workers in Victoria struggle with new COVID-19 safety measures

By Brishti Basu
August 26, 2021

From the restaurateurs who will have to check guests' vaccination status to the professors who won't be allowed to, businesses react to the new rules

Politics

Election 2021: Meet your Victoria candidates

By Jimmy Thomson
August 25, 2021

Candidates spoke to Capital Daily about their priorities, from transportation to climate—and we asked them all for their housing solutions

Know Your Neighbour

Taking space: how a trans comedian is owning their narrative with jokes

By Ryan Hook
August 21, 2021

Host of Vicious Poodle's Queer Comedy Night Zane Oak tells honest, sometimes uncomfortable, accounts of being trans in a binary world

Policing

Victoria creates pilot project to send crisis teams in place of police to some mental health calls

By Emily Fagan
August 19, 2021

The Oregon model it's based on has shown more than 30 years of success

Business

How Aaron Miller used his culinary background to launch a career with Flight Cannabis

By Josh Kozelj
August 17, 2021

Burned out in the high-stress culinary world, now he’s chilling out in the world of cannabis