Christmas Fund

Dave Obee: Please give to the Christmas Fund to help people in need

Dave Obee / Times Colonist editor and publisher

We’re back, raising money for people in need during the Christmas season, just as we have done ...

He once turned to Mustard Seed, now he helps others

Dave Obee: Why I’m giving to the Christmas Fund — it’s personal

Tuba Christmas raises more than $4,300 for Times Colonist Christmas Fund

Hundreds fill Market Square for Tuba Christmas

Jack Knox: A Christmas Fund donation from a prison inmate cheers the soul

Through the roof: He’s donated $5,000 a year for 13 years to the Christmas Fund

Matched donations fuel donor’s gifts to Christmas Fund

Singer Tom Jackson returns with Huron Carole concert

Charla Huber: Hampers were a part of my childhood Christmas

At Mustard Seed Christmas Dinner, everyone gets a chance to be special

How the Salvation Army helped save a marriage

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

‘Christmas is just too hard’ for mother with disability

Jack Knox: How Victoria’s Christmas charities work together

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

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Top Mountie in Kelowna transferred after videos show officer punching suspect

Westport: 1Q Earnings Snapshot

Nature Conservancy adds bunchgrass savannah to protected areas within B.C.

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Monthly rise in home sales and prices north of Malahat

Comment: The Bottle Depot continues important recycling service during pandemic

Horgan defends minimum wage hike that he knows is 'challenge' for business

Mandatory masks expanded to ships, trains, planes, buses

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WHL, BCHL close in on return-to-play plan

Victoria Grizzlies' newcomer Maia brings winning pedigree

Grizzlies veteran Westhaver lands on Long Island

Officials digest reopening guidelines for B.C. sports

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UVic to offer drive-in theatre screenings

Victoria bus shelters to display work by local artists

Pop-up drive-in coming to Duncan, Victoria

Union files complaint against NBC, 'America's Got Talent'

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Your Good Health: Intramuscular injection safe, but it can go wrong

Ask Ellie: Xenophobia hurts Canada-U.S. couple

Your Good Health: Vascular access port left untended in pandemic

Helen Chesnut’s Garden Notes: Wild arugula a spicy treat

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Comment: Local businesses bear brunt of social problems

Comment: Pandemic, fishing restrictions push coastal communities to the brink

Comment: The Bottle Depot continues important recycling service during pandemic

Dermod Travis: Bitter experience tells us oversight of government is a must

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Letters June 4: Where maritime museum belongs; slow library; rail line

Letters June 3: Remembering Dermod Travis; slow opening of library

Letters June 2: Victoria council’s mandate; speaking out against racism

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House Beautiful: A blooming portrait by the sea

Helen Chesnut’s Garden Notes: Wild arugula a spicy treat

Debbie Travis: Panelling, wood trims add appeal to any room

Helen Chesnut’s Garden Notes: Seed gift leads to thrilling discovery

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Airline stocks soar as American, United add back flights

Passengers and employees at Pearson airport must now wear masks 'at all times'

Ottawa pledges millions to promote holiday travel in Canada during pandemic

Disney, SeaWorld announce plans for Florida parks to reopen

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Steve Wallace: Reader suggestions for safer school zones

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German court ruling clears the way to settle VW diesel cases

When a rat makes a home in your engine compartment during a pandemic

Photo galleries from the Times Colonist

Photo gallery: Showing off your face masks

Photo gallery: Victoria Day parades of years past

Photo gallery: Thank-you signs of the times

Photo gallery: Day 5 and 6 of pipeline protests in Victoria

Photo Gallery: Pipeline activists rally in support of Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs

Photo Gallery: Images from the Vancouver Island floods

Photo gallery: A winter wonderland through our photographers' lenses

Photo gallery: Greater Victoria loves a snow day!

2019: The year in pictures, as chosen by Times Colonist senior photographer

Photo gallery: Labour Day long weekend fun at the Saanich Fair

Saturday photo gallery: Paint-In and Deuce Days

Photos: 2019 Victoria Pride Parade

Photo gallery: Island Farms Victoria Day Parade

Photo Gallery: Welcome to the world Archie Harrison!

Gallery: Kids' weather art

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

Homes

House Beautiful: A blooming portrait by the sea

Grania Litwin / Times Colonist

Jim English has always loved gardens and plants — something he inherited from his grandparents, mother and sisters, who all had green thumbs and gumboots. After graduating from high school, he . . .

Op-Ed

Dave Obee: Struggling to mourn after a friend’s death

Dave Obee / Times Colonist

“It is always difficult to experience loss; it is extremely difficult in these circumstances,” Health Minister Adrian Dix said in a Twitter message the other day. “We are with you.” Dix was . . .

Local

Obituary: Nagasaki survivor loved life — and won our hearts

Jack Knox / Times Colonist

Rudi Hoenson had every reason to be an angry man. Taken prisoner as an 18-year-old Dutch soldier in what is now Indonesia, he spent the last 3 1/2 years of the Second World War in slave labour in . . .

News

Married for 74 years, this North Van couple with COVID-19 died 37 hours apart

Andy Prest / North Shore News

Picture this: a man and a woman out together in a little rowboat. They’ve been married for more than half a century, still loving each other’s company. She rows, as she likes to do, and he fishes. . .

Local

Paddler fights to save turkey vulture after eagle attack

Louise Dickson / Times Colonist

Hilary Eastmure learned first-hand that nature is both beautiful and brutal on a kayaking trip around Newcastle Island on the Victoria Day long weekend. The former CFAX news anchor was paddling . . .

Local

Pacific Rim park set to reopen, but Tofino mayor would still like visitors to stay away

Carla Wilson / Times Colonist

More than half of Canada’s national parks — including Vancouver Island’s Pacific Rim — are set to open for day use next week but Tofino’s mayor is urging non-residents to wait for direction from . . .

Editorials

Editorial: After pandemic, we should keep option of seeing doctor by phone

Times Colonist

Several readers have noted how much easier it is to get medical advice now that doctors are doing consults by phone. The cause, of course, is the COVID-19 outbreak, which has made traditional . . .

Local

Neighbours report more disruptions after homeless campers move into hotel

Katie DeRosa / Times Colonist

Residents of a Gorge Road condo building say they are afraid for their safety and have seen a spike in social disorder since former residents of Topaz Park moved into a neighbouring hotel. . . .

Business

Save-on-Foods ends hazard pay for staff, other grocers continue it

Darron Kloster / Times Colonist

Essential service workers in the grocery sector receiving extra pay during the pandemic will be watching their paycheques in the coming weeks as companies re-evaluate how they compensate employees.. . .

Local

VIDEO: Nanaimo man’s stop-motion Schitt’s Creek spoof catches eye of Dan Levy

Megan Lalonde / Vancouver Is Awesome

Schitt’s Creek may have aired its final episode this spring, but a Nanaimo man is keeping the sitcom’s spirit alive with a new short film set to the show’s No. 1 (in our hearts) hit song, A Little . . .

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