News In Victoria: Latest Stories

Infrastructure

Why Vancouver Island will never get a bridge to the Mainland

By Tristin Hopper
December 6, 2019

Giving 500,000 people a more convenient ride to Vancouver would be the single most daunting engineering project in Canadian history

B.C. Ferries

B.C. Ferries Aren't As Expensive As You Think

By Capital Daily Staff
December 3, 2019

We compared them to car ferries around the world, and everyone from Brits to Italians are paying more

Climate Change

Victoria’s Cruise Ship Conundrum

By Capital Daily Staff
December 2, 2019

As it positions itself as one of Canada’s greenest cities, Victoria has simultaneously been boosting an industry condemned around the world for its pollution

Real Estate

Here's How Unaffordable Victoria Really Is

By Leo Spalteholz
November 29, 2019

There are fewer Millennials owning homes in Victoria than even Toronto or Vancouver

Infrastructure

What Victoria’s Megaprojects Will Cost in Interest

By Capital Daily Staff
November 27, 2019

Servicing the debt for the Johnson Street Bridge and the Wastewater Treatment Plant will ultimately cost more than $50 million

The Royal Family

Scandal-Plagued Prince Andrew Still Retains Two Vancouver Island Ceremonial Titles

By Tristin Hopper
November 25, 2019

Non-profits around the world are rejecting the Duke of York's patronage amid renewed scrutiny over Andrew's ties to convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein

Queen Elizabeth II

Had the Nazis Won, This Was the Canadian Childhood Planned for Queen Elizabeth II

By Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
November 22, 2019

There is good reason to believe that the current site of Royal Roads University once stood ready to accept a refugee King George VI and his family

Healthcare

Why Canada Doesn't Allow Private Healthcare

By Tristin Hopper
November 21, 2019

As a B.C. lawsuit to legalize private healthcare wraps up this week, we review how it got this way