Business

Funding gives B.C. students hands-on trades experience

Andrew Duffy / Times Colonist

With job shortages already here, push is on to start careers early An infusion of cash from the province will ensure more young people get a taste of real life working in the ...

Canada Post must deal with injuries to end walkout: union

Financial and industrials weigh on TSX, loonie climbs against U.S. dollar

One month after legalization, illicit cannabis shops doing brisk business

Natural gas shortage could last all winter; households urged to conserve

On the Street: Designer to lead Victoria home builders group

Quebec prepared to help Bombardier, minister says after CEO meeting

US industrial production grew modest 0.1 per cent in October

Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales up 0.2 per cent in September

Judge: White House must return CNN's Jim Acosta's credential

BlackBerry to buy cybersecurity company Cylance for US$1.4 billion

Apple signs multiyear deal with film studio A24

Bombardier executive stock plan under the microscope by securities regulator

Most actively traded companies on the TSX

Ontario pot rules restrict retail ownership of licensed producers

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Expect no quick end to Canada-wide cannabis shortages, producers warn

Saskatchewan First Nation passes its own legal cannabis law, plans to open shop

Tilray says 'far less' pot available across Canada to bridge recreational supply gap

Aurora Cannabis ramping up production but recreational pot shortages to linger

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Victoria opts to push ahead with new $69M Crystal Pool, mulls social housing nearby

$201M project to add 620 campus housing units at UVic

B.C.’s pro-rep opponents seek voting extension, pro-camp doubles down on youth

Health-premium shift could raise Victoria property taxes

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BC Hydro report says climate change events cause worse storms, more ...

Dead whale washes ashore in Tsawwassen

Mounties arrest two suspects after supermarket reports $1,400 butter ...

Members of northwest B.C. First Nation to finally return home after ...

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Cariboo Express returning for goodwill shows in Sidney, Salt Spring, Nanaimo

William Goldman, Oscar winner for 'Butch Cassidy,' has died

Explore: Victoria's Festival of Trees, dinosaurs in Courtenay

The Michael Douglas method: How 'Fatal Attraction' changed his acting approach

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Backlog of irregular asylum claims has ballooned to over 28,000

Russian aggression and cyberwarfare key issues for Canada to confront: Sajjan

Workers at Quebec-run liquor stores begin 3-day strike, shutting down outlets

Canada Post asks for halt to international shipments to Canada: Royal Mail

Entertainment

Review: John Mellencamp digs into his past in energetic concert

Mike Devlin / Times Colonist

John Mellencamp has a new album due in December, one that straddles the line between the intensely personal and the outright political.

Local

Province launches $10-a-day daycare at 53 centres

Katie DeRosa / Times Colonist

Parents will save thousands of dollars if their children are enrolled in one of 53 child-care centres that will offer $10-a-day daycare as part of a B.C. government pilot project. The 53 . . .

Life

Leave the leaves: Nature group tells Canadians not to rake their lawns

The Canadian Press

FREDERICTON — Good news for the lazy: Canada's leading conservation group is asking people not to rake their lawn. "It's good news if you don't like raking the leaves because leaving them on. . .

Travel

Cycling the Olympic Discovery Trail from Port Angeles to Sequim

Patricia Coppard / Times Colonist

"Where are you headed today?” the U.S. border agent asks, looking slightly amused, as I stand in cycling gear holding three passports at the Coho ferry terminal in Victoria. “We’re cycling . . .

Local

Family of VIU student who died urge anyone who is struggling to reach out

Katie DeRosa / Times Colonist

The 21-year-old Vancouver Island University student who died after falling from the fifth and top floor of the school’s library on Monday is being remembered by family as a bright and caring . . .

Local

Jack Knox: Can you help solve Halloween ring mystery?

Jack Knox / Times Colonist

Today is the anniversary of the day the downcast child showed up on Dr. Joyce Clearihue’s Uplands doorstep, more than 40 years ago. He — Clearihue thinks it was a he — had worn a parent’s ring . . .

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