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Thanks to our readers for helping those in need

Dave Obee / Times Colonist

When there is need, our readers step forward. There might be no better proof than our annual ...

Times Colonist Christmas Fund: In good times and bad, you can make a difference

How the Salvation Army helped save a marriage

Worried Salvation Army $80,000 short of Victoria target

She used to rely on donated toys for gifts, now she gives them out

A feast of community spirit at Our Place Christmas dinner

Architect builds on matching donations for Christmas Fund

‘Christmas is just too hard’ for mother with disability

Theft of 10 bags of toys moves others to step up

Tuba Christmas all about that bass — and donations (VIDEO)

One last season for Christmasland, a house filled with festive lights

Jack Knox: Salvation Army ups its game, taps celebrity power

A habit of giving — and challenging for donation matches

Jack Knox: How Victoria’s Christmas charities work together

Labour of love cooks Mustard Seed Christmas dinner

A Christmas story: Need is a thing that hits someone else — until it’s you

Memories of how fund helped a new arrival to Victoria in 1950s

Jack Knox: A single mother’s heartbreak and hope

Lon Wood: Food for body and soul in the act of giving

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Man missing after walking away from Royal Jubilee Hospital found safe

$10M budget hike for CRD sewage-project recommended

Saturday’s 4/20 event shifts to lawn of legislature

Langford gets proactive with bear-awareness campaign

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Lab-grown meat companies see opportunity for growth, research in Canada

BC Ferries pilot project may add beer and wine sales to certain sailings by June

Rescuers near Victoria find cat more than a week after fire kills owner

Pro freeskier Dave Treadway dies in backcountry accident

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Victoria Harbour’s new marina still finding its sea legs

Oil and gas sector applauds pro-business government as pipelines remain in limbo

Kinder Morgan options for Canadian branch delayed due to 'complexity'

Canola group demands Ottawa 'consider all available options' in China seed dispute

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Mount Doug Rams' stars take their acts to university

Pacific FC calls on veteran Island player McCurdy

Toronto Blue Jays reliever Ryan Tepera returns to team after injury

Load management 101: Looking at how the Raptors have treated Kawhi Leonard

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Blue Bridge’s Happy Days still smiling thanks to replacements

UVic prof’s film on Island forests premièring at Toronto festival

Avant-garde Crystal Method gains mainstream reputation

Opportunity knocks: CCPA students present much-coveted West Side Story

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Oak Bay man’s device helps in care of his daughter

No-bake, no rules: Canada Post says everyone makes Nanaimo bars ‘a little differently’

Recipient in rare paired living liver donation thanks "angel" donor

Your Good Health: Life-threatening reaction to vaccines rare

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Les Leyne: Two governments are rupturing long friendship

Editorial: Agricultural opportunity

Editorial: The heart of Paris burns

Les Leyne: Bickering dentists show health colleges need to put public first

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April 18: Victoria has money for sewage project

April 18: Drunk-driving law is a giant overstep

April 18: No free lunch for electric cars

April 18: Canadians rejecting socialist engineering

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Helen Chesnut’s Garden Notes: Timing is right for updated native-plant guide

Debbie Travis: Salvaged materials get new lives

Apartment where Ernest Hemingway lived up for sale in Toronto

Parents need to plan carefully if they are going to help their kids buy a house

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Travel: Remote ‘craggy fort’ might look familiar to Game of Thrones fans

Rick Steves: Historic Glasgow great for sights and sounds

North Island whale tours lure thousands

Burkina Faso minister says missing Quebec woman is alive, removed from territory

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Pedro Arrais review: Nautilus an SUV of luxurious distinction

Steve Wallace: How to reduce the dangers of tailgating

Review: Ranger puts Ford back in midsize truck game

Bill Vance: All-steel car broke new ground

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Good things are brewing in Sooke

Island Voices: Teahouse plan offers a vision for Esquimalt

Island Voices: Sleepwalking into the future with Bill 10

Charla Huber: Menstrual products should be free to those in need, period

Photo galleries from the Times Colonist

Photo gallery: Student climate strike in Victoria and around the world

Photos: In search of the Spirit Bear

Photo gallery: Readers' snow photos

Photo gallery: Greater Victoria gets a taste of winter

Photo gallery: Victoria's Chinatown celebrates Lunar New Year with parade

Photo gallery: Snow day!

Photo gallery: 2019 Women's March Victoria

Photo gallery: Push! How to load a helicopter into a giant Russian cargo plane

Victoria’s flora and fauna illustrated

Photo gallery: Fans at the world junior hockey championship

Photo gallery: Game action from the world junior hockey championship

Photo gallery: Wind storm hits Vancouver Island

Photo gallery: Butchart Gardens shine bright for Christmas

Photo gallery: 37th annual Santa's Light Parade

Photo gallery: 100 years after the guns fell silent

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Good things are brewing in Sooke

Andrew A. Duffy / Times Colonist

Sooke is one of the fastest-growing areas on southern Vancouver Island, and with the jump in size and population comes the usual pressure on infrastructure and demand for housing. But that growth. . .

Food & Drink

Eric Akis: Take time to make your own falafel

Eric Akis / Times Colonist

Falafel seems to be a food most people enjoy in a restaurant or from a food truck or stand. Or, if people do make it themselves, many will go the convenience route and use a boxed, just-add-water . . .

Business

Parents need to plan carefully if they are going to help their kids buy a house

Craig Wong / The Canadian Press

OTTAWA — Buying a home is a big step for anyone and experts say that parents looking to help their children need to make sure it is affordable and that their children are ready for the change.Chris . . .

Columnists

Charla Huber: Menstrual products should be free to those in need, period

Charla Huber / Times Colonist

Just over a week ago, the B.C. government announced that all schools would offer free menstrual products in washrooms by the end of 2019. When I heard this announcement, the first thing I thought . . .

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Lifetime ban from Empress for pepperoni seagull fiasco has been lifted

Katie DeRosa / Times Colonist

After he inadvertently trashed one of its room with packs of pepperoni and a flock of seagulls, the Empress Hotel has granted a Nova Scotia man a pardon and lifted a lifetime ban. Seventeen years. . .

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