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Galiano Island spurs author Michael Christie’s imagination

Mike Devlin / Times Colonist

Michael Christie built a home for his family on Galiano Island several years ago, with wood he felled and milled from Douglas firs and red cedars on the property. The timber-framed...

Movies

Box office: Joker stays far ahead of the competition

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Stage Left: Weaksauce has lots of strong points

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Bert Vandergugten exhibit tinged with sadness

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Victoria filmmaker Judith Pyke looks into world of colour

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Winners of Victoria Book Prize each pocket $5,000

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UVic alumnus Sam Mullins returns to tell his own story in Weaksauce

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Victoria-raised makeup-effects artist Ryan Nicholson dies at 47

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Victoria production It’ll Come to Me born from living down and out in New York

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Get set for Sunday's GoodLife Fitness Victoria Marathon

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Explore: Titanic’s musicians saluted, treats for music lovers, artists open their doors

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Classical Music: UVic faculty members celebrate Canadian music

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Review: 'Curious Toys' has deliciously creepy setting

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Cha's story is about race, redemption and forgiveness

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Classical Music: UVic faculty members celebrate Canadian music

What's on at the movies

UVic alumnus Sam Mullins returns to tell his own story in Weaksauce

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Helen Chesnut’s Garden Notes: Cyclamens make a pretty winter ground cover

House Beautiful: East meets West Coast at Ten Mile Point

Helen Chesnut’s Garden Notes: When it’s more toil than joy, time to simplify

Condo Smarts: Don’t wait for a complaint to improve access to your condo building

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Rick Steves: Stockholm’s day trips delightful and diverse

American pushes back expected return of its 737 Max planes

'World-record rack:' Crew crowns Mac the Moose statue with new antlers

New York library exhibit to pay tribute to JD Salinger

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Pedro Arrais review: Revamped Kia EV gets a little more Soul

Steve Wallace: Readers weigh in on road safety, ICBC

Review: Audi TT RS rules the roost with power

Bill Vance: Concord was AMC's last gasp of life

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Lawrie McFarlane: Green, NDP platforms embrace suicidal deficit plans

Trevor Hancock: Elect a 'health and well-being' government

Charla Huber: West Shore government offices are long overdue

Monique Keiran: Pumpkins have a longer history than you think

National

Horgan vows to act on missing-women inquiry in B.C.

The Canadian Press

VICTORIA — British Columbia Premier John Horgan says survivors and their families showed courage and leadership in sharing experiences that form the final report of the National Inquiry into . . .

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'Blond hair everywhere:' Nurse first on scene remembers Humboldt Broncos crash

Police plead for more witnesses in alleged hit-and-run that badly injured toddler

Great white tagging program off N.S. stirs debate over treatment of sharks

Climate activist Greta Thunberg tweets that she plans to visit Alberta

Local

Obituary: Mountain-biking legend Jordie Lunn pushed the envelope

Roxanne Egan-Elliott / Times Colonist

Mountain biker and freerider Jordie Lunn was a passionate rider who was always pushing himself and the sport to new limits. Lunn died Wednesday while trail riding with friends in Cabo San Lucas, . . .

Local

Victoria mayor wants cruise ships to plug into shore power

Lindsay Kines / Times Colonist

Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps wants to investigate the city’s ability to crack down on cruise ships and require them to plug into on-shore electrical outlets instead of idling in port. In a motion . . .

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Royal B.C. Museum returns totem to Nuxalk First Nation

Randy Shore / Vancouver Sun

A party of about 20 members of the Nuxalk First Nation went to the Royal B.C. Museum on Friday to reclaim a valuable piece of family heritage, a totem carved by late hereditary chief Louie Snow . . .

Local

Tour de France cult figure, inventor Tony Hoar dies at 87

Jack Knox / Times Colonist

Five days before his death, Tony Hoar sat down with medical staff to discuss what was to come. “All he could talk about was getting better and getting back to his projects,” says his wife, Gay . . .

Local

Big insurance-price jump for out-of-province drivers

Andrew Duffy / Times Colonist

Some part-time B.C. residents are in for sticker shock when they go to renew their vehicle insurance, thanks to new regulations brought into force in September. Under the new rules, aimed at . . .

Op-Ed

Island Voices: A millennial’s complaint: ‘Boomers gonna boomer’

James Marshall / Times Colonist

My friend-group of fellow millennials and I collectively rolled our eyes as we read the recent Island Voices opinion piece entitled “B.C.’s speculation tax flies in the face of logic, fairness.”

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Woman lacked ID with gender for flight, so they got her a fishing licence

Roxanne Egan-Elliott / Times Colonist

At 82, Judith Hodgson hasn’t been driving for a couple of years and she’s not a frequent flyer. So when the Victoria woman booked a trip to Winnipeg for her sister’s birthday, she didn’t think . . .

Islander

Why can't you find a doctor?

Lindsay Kines ,  Cindy E. Harnett / Times Colonist

Is there a “shortage” of doctors or are other factors at work? Why are young doctors opting out of family practice, where are they going and what’s the impact on patients when they’re unable to find a physician?

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Lifetime ban from Empress for pepperoni seagull fiasco has been lifted

Katie DeRosa / Times Colonist

After he inadvertently trashed one of its room with packs of pepperoni and a flock of seagulls, the Empress Hotel has granted a Nova Scotia man a pardon and lifted a lifetime ban. Seventeen years. . .

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