Real Estate

Here we go again: Speculation tax forms are in the mail

Andrew Duffy / Times Colonist

Starting next week, homeowners in B.C. will receive “declaration” packages and a prompt to claim an exemption from the speculation and vacancy tax.Homeowners in areas where...

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Here we go again: Speculation tax forms are in the mail

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Entertainment

Explore: Burns Day, mammoth party, Chinese New Year festivities

Pedro Arrais / Times Colonist

Raise your glass, tuck into some haggis, join in a commemoration or enjoy a concert as Victorians pause to celebrate Robbie Burns at various events this weekend. Robert Burns was only 37 when he . . .

Food & Drink

Eric Akis: Wontons food of good fortune for Chinese New Year

Eric Akis / Times Colonist

Chinese New Year begins this Saturday and festive gatherings marking the occasion will continue until the next full moon. Enjoying foods said to bring good fortune is an important part of the . . .

Local

Jack Knox: Want to change my mind? Don’t punch me in the head

Jack Knox / Times Colonist

Just for a second, put aside your feelings — for or against — about the natural gas pipeline opposed by Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs in northern B.C. Ask yourself instead: What if it were . . .

Islander

Charla Huber: Let’s welcome Harry and Meghan — by leaving them alone

Charla Huber / .

There’s something that excites me about the possibility of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle living here in the capital region. We know they’ve stayed here, but I don’t know if this is where they are . . .

Business

Restaurant charging extra 1% on bills to recover costs of B.C. health tax

Cindy E. Harnett / Times Colonist

A restaurant overlooking Victoria’s Inner Harbour is charging a one per cent fee on food and drink to recover costs associated with B.C.’s Employer Health Tax. Rob Chyzowski, owner of Belleville’. . .

Local

Ted Hughes, who tackled B.C.’s toughest problems, dies at age 92

Roxanne Egan-Elliott / Times Colonist

Ted Hughes, B.C.’s first conflict-of-interest commissioner, whose report led to the resignation of Bill Vander Zalm as premier, died Friday in Victoria at the age of 92. A former Saskatchewan . . .

Local

B.C. Ferries’ new hybrid electric vessels arrive at Ogden Point

Carla Wilson / Times Colonist

> Link to B.C. Ferries video of new Island Class ferries arriving by heavy-load carrier at Victoria's Ogden Point on Saturday. B.C. Ferries’ two new Island Class hybrid-electric ferries . . .

Local

Jack Knox: Locals helped Prince Harry, Meghan and Archie enjoy holiday peace

Jack Knox / Times Colonist

Assuming that they made it out of the McTavish crop circles by the airport, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s North Saanich sojourn is over. Confirmation came from Buckingham Palace, which said . . .

Columnists

Comment: Mark the barber and the toll of drug overdoses

Conor King / Times Colonist

A commentary by a staff sergeant with the Victoria Police Department. I start each workday at the Victoria Police Department by reading the fatal overdose reports from the night before. People . . .

Local

Island parents want son’s drug death declared a poisoning

Cindy E. Harnett / Times Colonist

A Courtenay couple whose 26-year-old son died after smoking fentanyl-laced heroin wants the coroner’s report on his death changed to say he was poisoned. Ryan Hedican, an electrician, was on a . . .

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