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Bike Lanes

Why Amsterdam Might Be a Horrible Model for Building a Carbon-Free City

By Thomas Guerrero
November 20, 2019

Yes, Amsterdammers cycle everywhere, but they also live in a flat, dense, comparatively affordable city (that’s wracked with bike theft)

Victoria City Council

Victoria City Council's Proposed 55 Per Cent Pay Raise Is Wildly Out of Step with Similar Cities

By Capital Daily Staff
November 18, 2019

On almost every metric, it's hard to find any council in Canada proposing to pay itself as much

Photography

The Most Surreal Pictures in the Victorian World

By Tristin Hopper
November 15, 2019

Hannah Maynard wasn't just one of the only female photographers in the British Empire. She did things with film that European masters could only dream of.

Climate Change

What Climate Change Is Expected to do to Victoria

By Caitlin Stall-Paquet
November 13, 2019

As Victoria pursues plans to sue for the damage of climate change, we probed what those damages would be

Climate Change

Carbon Dioxide into Stone: UVic’s Revolutionary Plan to Reverse Climate Change

By Tristin Hopper
November 5, 2019

B.C.-led team to pioneer technology to suck greenhouse gases from the air and entomb them deep under the ocean

Sewage

What If the Sludge Pipeline Breaks?

By Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
November 4, 2019

Victoria’s 19-kilometre pressurized sewage sludge pipeline is designed not to rupture, but that doesn’t mean it’s not impossible

Wildlife

Fight the Deer, or Make Peace?

By Jolene Rudisuela
November 4, 2019

Four years after a community declared war on deer, the deer are winning

Crime

Canada’s Jack the Ripper

By Tristin Hopper
October 31, 2019

Victoria in 1899 was no stranger to killing, but this was a new and horrifying kind of murder