Christmas Fund

Match challenges help push Christmas Fund toward $700,000 goal

Dave Obee / The Times Colonist

Your Times Colonist Christmas Fund continues to grow, raising money to help the less fortunate ...

Donate refundable bottles and cans to help the Christmas Fund

Demand grows at food banks during COVID-19 pandemic

Pandemic no obstacle for senior who buys hundreds of toys for charity

New flag serves as reminder to mask up and help out

Pop-up toy store helps families in need put gifts under Christmas tree

Donate to Christmas Fund: People who provided help now need help themselves

Times Colonist Christmas Fund needs your help more than ever

He once turned to Mustard Seed, now he helps others

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

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

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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No rest in November for real estate market

Mel Cooper is staying on board but moving aside

Kevin Greenard: Spousal loans help split retirement income

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Canadian paddlers hope to mine Tokyo Olympic gold from Shawnigan Lake

Island runners go from Port Hardy to Victoria for charity

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Poet and children's author Dennis Lee among Writers' Trust career honourees

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Eric Akis: Hot, crispy prawns, ready for dunking

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Adrian Raeside cartoon: Anti-vaxxers

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Adrian Raeside cartoon: Masks

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Letters Dec. 2: Heritage buildings, a thank-you to ICBC, housing needed

Letters Dec. 1: Churches and the economy; Victoria council; residential schools

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Celebrate Sidney’s Christmas by the sea

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Local

1,000-plus reports of passengers not leaving enclosed ferry car decks

Carla Wilson / Times Colonist

Transport Canada is in the ­process of reviewing 1,000-plus reports of B.C. Ferries passengers unwilling to leave vehicles on enclosed car decks, as is required by regulations. That requirement . . .

Homes

House Beautiful: Quest for first home takes couple to Lake Cowichan

Kim Pemberton / The Times Colonist

Getting on the property ladder is becoming harder for many, but it’s especially difficult for young people just starting out. High school sweethearts Elizabeth and Nathan Moro feel lucky to have . . .

Local

Government House grounds close after too many large gatherings

Darron Kloster / Times Colonist

The head of Government House says it had no choice but to close the gates to its grounds after large groups of people held birthday parties and yoga ­sessions on the property and even brought in . . .

Local

Proud of your Christmas lights? Submit your address for our map

The Times Colonist

Christmas lights are winking on across Greater Victoria, and it’s time to shine! Once again, the Times Colonist is compiling a map of Christmas light shows. Find the map at timescolonist.com/. . .

Local

Help us shape our coverage of the Victoria byelection

Times Colonist

Victoria voters go to the polls on Dec. 12 to elect a new city councillor. Let us know what your priorities are and what questions you'd like to ask the candidates. We'll use your responses to help shape our coverage.

Local

Ferry mask image will be replaced after everyone has their laugh

Carla Wilson / Times Colonist

A B.C. Ferries sign reminding passengers to wear a mask has gained far more attention than anticipated, even earning a mention on U.S. late-night television. The signs show the profile of a man . . .

Local

Birth mother won't face charges for abandoning infant in ditch in 1986

Louise Dickson / Times Colonist

A woman who abandoned her newborn baby girl in a ditch on Triangle Mountain 34 years ago will not face criminal charges. The Crown has decided not to prosecute the woman, who was 17 when she . . .

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

Jack Knox: A street survivor’s perspective

Jack Knox / Times Colonist

Somewhere between the two extremes — those who want to hug all the messed-up people on the street, and those who would happily hose them into the Inner Harbour — stands Sue McMurter. On one hand,. . .

Local

Jack Knox: Woman awakes to be told she had died months ago

Jack Knox / Times Colonist

Wilma Williams had a rough start to her Monday. “I got up in the morning and I was 80 years old,” she says. “But by the time I read my mail, I was dead.” This was news to the Victoria woman, who . . .

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