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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Emmy winners highlight push for social justice

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Local

Woman awarded $35,000 after condo building refuses to accommodate wheelchair

Katie DeRosa / Times Colonist

A Nanaimo woman who uses a wheelchair has been awarded $35,000 in damages after the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal found her condo board’s refusal to make the building accessible made her a “prisoner . . .

National

Former PM John Turner dead at 91; was an MP in B.C. and Ontario

The Canadian Press

TORONTO — Former prime minister John Turner, whose odyssey from a “Liberal dream in motion” to a political anachronism spanned 30 years, has died at the age of 91. Marc Kealey, a former aide . . .

Homes

House Beautiful: Take a virtual tour of historic Blair Gowie House

Grania Litwin / The Times Colonist

It seems as if just about everything is going online these days — and that includes house tours. The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and its volunteer group, the Gallery Associates, is launching a virtual version of the annual house tour on Sunday, and it will feature one of the city’s most fascinating and fabulous homes.

Local

Premier calls out video referring to Nanaimo bars as 'Canadian chocolate bars'

Lindsay William-Ross / Vancouver is Awesome

There are a few foods that are top of the list for being quintessentially Canadian treats: Butter tarts. Poutine. Nanaimo bars. So when Buzzfeed Canada put out a video this week called “Canadian . . .

Local

Newly discovered fish species named after Sooke fossil hunter

Roxanne Egan-Elliott / Times Colonist

Steve Suntok spends most of his weekends scouring river canyons on Vancouver Island for hints of the past. A self-described fossil hunter, Suntok estimates he’s found about 1,000 to 2,000 fossils. . .

Entertainment

Retired Victoria broadcaster finds long-lost tapes of Joni Mitchell recording session

Mike Devlin / Times Colonist

Two long-forgotten tapes featuring the first recordings of Joni Mitchell have come out of storage and into circulation, thanks to a serendipitous turn of events involving retired Victoria . . .

Local

It's spider season: 'We should just let them live and go about their business'

Darron Kloster / Times Colonist

There’s a saying among arachnologists that you’re never more than five feet from a spider. That’s especially true in British Columbia, where there are nearly 900 documented species of spiders — . . .

Local

Jack Knox: The Last Post for Salt Spring's Byron brothers

Jack Knox / Times Colonist

Terry Byron cracked himself up remembering VE Day. His wounds healed, he was in Aldershot, England, waiting to be sent back to the fighting when word of Germany’s surrender arrived in May 1945.. . .

Local

'Oh hell, you're not a dog': Saanich woman goes nose-to-nose with a big cat — twice

Darron Kloster / Times Colonist

Saanich resident Lynn Wright was getting ready for bed on Wednesday night and closing her back door when she noticed what she thought was a dog stretched out on her back porch. “I said: ‘How did . . .

Local

In rare photo, killer whale uses tail to toss seal high into the air

Roxanne Egan-Elliott / Times Colonist

A whale watching captain caught a rare sight on camera when a Bigg’s killer whale tossed a seal high in the air. Andrew Lees, who owns Five Star Whale Watching, brought his guests to the south . . .

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