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A welcome step by the RCMP

 
The RCMP announcement that the force will no longer investigate its own members involved in cases of death and serious injury is a belated but welcome step.
 
 

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To Reliance Properties of Vancouver for buying the derelict Northern Junk buildings on Victoria's waterfront and announcing plans to create a "lively mix" of new uses that would preserve the 146-year-old structures. And a thumbs up to Victoria's council...
 
 
 
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Les Leyne
Les Leyne

Les Leyne: Big-screen TV purchases, Campbell looks to post-Games relaunch

Of course there is a sensible, businesslike explanation for the purchase request...

 
Dave Obee
Dave Obee

'Darwin, the dead scientist,' failed to impress

Oh, how times have changed. Not that long ago, Charles Darwin just couldn't get ...

 
 
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Saira Waters
Saira Waters

By Saira Waters: Change of Pace

My training this week was all about changing it up!  After appearing in the paper, I was delighted...

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Chris Burdge
Chris Burdge

By Chris Burdge: Won't Get Fooled Again

Went for a nice post Super Bowl half-time run today. Hence the blog title "Won't Get Fooled...

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Ollie interrupts cocktail hour

    Today, I took Ollie the Pug on a long, long walk. Our house overlooks a massive ...

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Charlie White: The '...

A sports-fishing guru who co-founded CHEK television and CFAX...


 
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It’s been two years since 24-year-old real estate agent Lindsay...


 
The ramshackle poverty of the First Nations community of Ahousaht was shocking, recalls reporter Judith Lavoie.

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Outlook 2010: Successful...

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Esquimalt Mayor Barb Desjardins says a study has shown that McLoughlin Point is not the best option for a sewage treatment site and that a better site can be found.

Sewage Treatment: Will...

A decision on where to put new sewage plants in Greater Victoria...


 
Second World War veteran Doug Grant, also formerly of the Victoria Police Department, at his home in Oak Bay. Among other experiences, Grant was a Prisoner of War in a Japanese POW camp for several years, and was on the outskirts of Nagasaki when the second atomic bomb was dropped on August 9, 1945.

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On Aug. 9, 1945, Doug Grant scribbled in a journal he kept hidden...


 
One of Uptown's anchor buildings rises like a geometric sculpture on the former site of Town and Country Shopping Centre in Saanich. The $300-million Uptown project, with retail stores and offices, is being promoted as Saanich's new downtown. This building is slated for office and retail uses -- the tenant list includes B.C. Assessment and Future Shop. Some businesses will move into Uptown in February. The project's largest tenant, a Wal-Mart superstore, is scheduled to open in July.

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Oak Bay High valedictoriansTaylor Johnson and Tookie Graham.

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