News In Victoria: Latest Stories

Homelessness

Inside the City of Victoria’s case against the Beacon Hill tenters

By Anna J. James
July 30, 2020

It took a city audit, drone surveys and hundreds of pages of legal documents to move 60 campers from one part of Beacon Hill Park to another part

Housing

Meet Rhonan Heitzmann—the water delivery man with big ideas for Salt Spring’s future

By Jimmy Thomson
July 29, 2020

This is part three of a series of previews of our upcoming feature on housing and water on Salt Spring Island, for subscribers only.

Housing

Meet Fernando Dos Santos—who is wading through bureaucracy to create housing

By Jimmy Thomson
July 29, 2020

This is part two of a series of previews of our upcoming feature on housing and water on Salt Spring Island, for subscribers only. For part three, see below.

COVID-19

Victoria's unemployment isn't as bad as you think

By Leo Spalteholz
July 26, 2020

The city lost a lot of jobs to COVID-19, but the rebound has been equally dramatic

COVID-19

Fighting COVID-19 with tobacco: How Vancouver Island research is taking on the pandemic

Home coronavirus tests, an antivirus door handle coating and forensic work into when the earliest cases were among us

Health

How thousands of Canadian care home residents are being sedated with potentially deadly drugs

By Tori Marlan
July 19, 2020

In some senior's homes, up to half of all residents have been prescribed potentially dangerous anti-psychotics not for psychosis, but because it makes them easier to handle

War and Peace

That time we went to war with the Americans over a pig

By Tristin Hopper
July 18, 2020

Within sight of the Saanich Peninsula, a seemingly laughable dispute over a pig risked exploding into world war

Overdose Crisis

BC sets new record for overdose deaths

By Cameron Welch
July 17, 2020

Only halfway through 2020, and overdose deaths have already dwarfed the total for all of 2019