News In Victoria: Latest Stories

Sports

How local athletes are coping with the maddening limbo of the Olympic postponement

By Ben Waterworth
November 19, 2020

It’s a delicate dance to be at one’s peak in time for the games, and a delay can throw that into jeopardy

COVID-19

Where all these new COVID cases are coming from

By Harley Gordon
November 18, 2020

Here is how to avoid the most likely situations for infection

Transportation

Could passenger rail down the E&N solve Victoria's congestion woes?

By Andrew Findlay
November 14, 2020

By 2038, a drive from Mill Bay to Victoria is expected to take 2 hours and 24 minutes

Furniture Lore

Victoria’s lost IKEA

By Omar Washington
November 13, 2020

For a brief, shining moment in the 1980s, Vancouver Islanders didn’t need to organize elaborate excursions to the mainland to get Swedish flat-packed furniture

Homelessness

The devastating effect Victoria's hotel-shelters have had on surrounding businesses

By Anna J. James
November 12, 2020

“The main problem is that they [BC Housing] did not ask anyone before they bought these hotels,” furniture retailer Gordy Dodd told Capital Daily

Remembrance

“There are hundreds of bodies lying about unburied": Vivid accounts of war from Vancouver Islanders

By Capital Daily Staff
November 11, 2020

In this special Remembrance Day feature, excerpts of diaries, letters and oral histories from both world wars, some published here for the first time

The Great War

How a Failed Victoria Real Estate Agent Won the Great War

By Tristin Hopper
November 11, 2020

For Remembrance Day, we remember how an unassuming Victorian found himself in command of one of the world’s deadliest armies

Disaster

What happened the last time "The Big One" hit the West Coast

By Daren Zomerman
November 8, 2020

Preserved by Indigenous oral history, and evidenced by signs of epic violence still visible on the landscape, this is the story of the last time seismic cataclysm came to the lands that are now British Columbia