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Comment: 12-step meetings still an essential lifeline despite social isolation

Comment: 12-step meetings still an essential lifeline despite social isolation

One by one the faces pop up on the computer screen, stacked on top of each other in rows like the start of the old Brady Bunch TV show.
Les Leyne: Langford is breaking ranks with virus test

Les Leyne: Langford is breaking ranks with virus test

The City of Langford has a good idea that is contributing to the fight against COVID-19. But it looks like they’re pushing it too far.
Greater Victoria real estate ‘in uncharted territory’

Greater Victoria real estate ‘in uncharted territory’

The Greater Victoria real estate market felt the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in March, according to sales figures released Wednesday, but it’s bracing for much worse this month and beyond.
Jack Knox: An ode to Bonnie Henry, on guitar and standup bass

Jack Knox: An ode to Bonnie Henry, on guitar and standup bass

As the video begins, all you see is Gordon Campbell — no, not THAT Gordon Campbell — standing in his Sidney home with an upright bass.
Camosun team ramping up thousands of face shields for health-care workers

Camosun team ramping up thousands of face shields for health-care workers

The manufacturing of face shields for health-care workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic gears up today through Camosun College’s innovation centre, where 9,000 will be made over the next few weeks.
Dave Obee: The needy and the newly needy

Dave Obee: The needy and the newly needy

Take all of your ideas about who is needy, and toss them aside. Odds are, you are wrong. The COVID-19 crisis has created a whole new group of needy people, made up of individuals who never thought they would ever have to ask for a handout.
B.C. jails to examine COVID-19 risks

B.C. jails to examine COVID-19 risks

B.C. jails will begin work today assessing risks of the spread of COVID-19 inside correctional facilities. Stephanie Smith, president of the B.C.
Victoria the ‘poster child’ for renter-landlord uncertainty

Victoria the ‘poster child’ for renter-landlord uncertainty

April 1 came and went without much in the way of clarity for renters and landlords in B.C., many of whom remain unsure how to proceed with payments in the coming weeks. Uncertainty has led to speculation on both sides.
Help letter carriers, give mailbox a wipe

Help letter carriers, give mailbox a wipe

Consider giving your mailbox a wipe and please keep your distance from letter carriers as part of the fight against the spread of COVID-19, says the president of the Victoria local of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers.
Campaign for ‘hidden hungry’ collects $32,000

Campaign for ‘hidden hungry’ collects $32,000

A three-week campaign to raise money for people who cannot afford healthy food has netted more than $30,000.