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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 ...

120 tubas and kin rumble festive tunes: Tuba Christmas, 1 p.m. Saturday, Market ...

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

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Teamsters say CN transferring workers across country twice in one year

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Victoria Royals will grin and bear it against Cougars

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New head coach Ryan Dinwiddie tasked with making Argos winners again

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Women rewrite the East Coast gothic to evoke contemporary horrors

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Cartoon: Adrian Raeside on the impact of online shopping

Comment: Responsibly selling tobacco helps people to quit smoking

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Letters Dec. 13: Octopus grabbed fisherman’s leg and wouldn’t let go; walk-in clinics

Letters Dec. 12: No-emission options; shore power for ships

Letters Dec. 11: Japanese Canadians during war; Ministry of Men column, ‘advisory’ bike lanes

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Helen Chesnut’s Garden Notes: Cut mums make long-lasting bouquets

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Times Colonist Christmas Fund

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

Jack Knox / Times Colonist

A prison inmate just gave $7 to the Times Colonist Christmas Fund. Of all the donations made so far this year, that one jumped out. Not just because of the source, but because of the amount. . . .

Sports

More rowers come forward with complaints about coach, criticism of UVic

Laura Kane / The Canadian Press

Sarah Craven had her sights set on the Olympics. The 21-year-old was the top lightweight in the University of Victoria rowing program at the start of the 2018-19 season and she says her new coach, . . .

Editorial Cartoon

Cartoon: Adrian Raeside on the impact of online shopping

Times Colonist

Adrian Raeside cartoon reflects on the consequences of online shopping. . . .

Local

Look up: Geminid meteor shower shows up Friday night

Roxanne Egan-Elliott / Times Colonist

Islanders with their eyes on the sky Friday night might catch a flurry of shooting stars. The annual Geminid meteor shower will be best viewed after dark on Friday and into the early hours of . . .

Local

B.C. Transit pays $2,500 each for fare boxes instead of $13,000 after hunting online

Kamloops This Week

B.C. Transit opted for used over new when it came to adding fare boxes to its inventory, saving nearly $300,000 in the process. The current model of fare box costs $13,000 new. But with a plan . . .

B.C.

Woman can’t use sperm of dead husband to have baby

Keith Fraser / Vancouver Sun

A B.C. woman has lost her bid to use sperm extracted from her dead husband to create an embryo for a child to be born. On Oct. 3, 2018, the woman, who was not identified in a court ruling, . . .

Local

Greater Victoria’s walk-in clinic waits longest in six provinces, survey finds

Cindy E. Harnett / Times Colonist

The capital region has the longest average wait times for walk-in clinics in six provinces, ranging from 1 1/2 to three hours, according to a company that provides wait-time information for . . .

Local

Police seize 19 vehicles for excessive speeding on Malahat

Jeff Bell / Times Colonist

Nineteen drivers had vehicles seized for seven days for excessive speeding as the Capital Regional District’s Integrated Road Safety Unit carried out checks on the Malahat on Sunday. The top . . .

Local

Bear turns nose up at salmon, goes for Christmas baking

Times Colonist

Blame it on Mary Beary. It seems Campbell River has its own answer to the celebrity British baker of similar name, an expert who knows exactly what she likes. Except the Vancouver Island . . .

Local

Jack Knox: How an innocent typo summoned Satan to a Christmas parade

Jack Knox / Times Colonist

Old Nick showed up at the Comox Valley Christmas parade on Sunday. No, not St. Nick. Old Nick. Beelzebub. Lucifer. Mephistopheles. Satan. As advertised. Courtenay Mayor Bob Wells saw at . . .

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