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The secrets of the seamounts

Times Colonist

Off the west coast of Vancouver Island, undersea mountains rise more than 1,000 metres from the sea floor, and an expedition this summer gave scientists and the public a rare look at these hot . . .

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Times Colonist

Steve Wallace: How to prepare for a rear-end collision

Steve Wallace / Times Colonist

The rear-end crash is the most common type of vehicle collision. Despite the latest technological advances, this crash can be very dramatic and result in significant injury, even at relatively . . .

Op-Ed

Island Voices: Housing first shouldn’t mean neighbourhoods come second

Stephen Hammond / .

I can relate to the people living near the Saanich and Nanaimo tent cities. Having lived by Victoria’s tent city two years ago, I know firsthand the dangers with some of the people who are . . .

Local

New floating boardwalk being installed at Swan Lake

Jeff Bell / Times Colonist

Construction on the new floating portion of the boardwalk at the Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary got underway Wednesday, with crews from Knappett Projects using a crane to put the first . . .

Local

Jack Knox: Battling and punishing the queue jumpers at B.C. Ferries terminals

Jack Knox / Times Colonist

I saw them catch a queue-jumper at the Tsawwassen ferry terminal last week. The driver had tried sneaking out of a going-nowhere lane and into one that was boarding. Fortunately, before he got . . .

Local

B.C. Ferries customers faced sailing waits at all major terminals on Monday

Carla Wilson / Times Colonist

On Monday afternoon, B.C. Ferries was reporting sailing waits for motor vehicles at its major terminals — Swartz Bay, Tsawwassen, Horseshoe Bay, Departure Bay and Duke Point. There were . . .

Local

Multi-sailing waits for much of Sunday at Swartz Bay, Tsawwassen

Carla Wilson / Times Colonist

Motorists travelling Sunday on B.C. Ferries between Swartz Bay and Tsawwassen faced two- and three-sailing waits into the evening. A 8:50 p.m. there was still a one-sailing wait. With the 9 p.m.. . .

Op-Ed

Zofia Rogowski: Council did right thing in a good way

Zofia Rogowski / Times Colonist

My first reaction to the news that the statue of Sir John A. Macdonald would be removed from Victoria’s city hall was fear. I knew it would bring out the residential-school defenders. The genocide . . .

Islander

Changing of the helicopter guard: Cyclone ‘leaps ahead’ of Sea Kings

Jeff Bell / Times Colonist

It’s easy to tell that the most recent addition to the 443 Maritime Helicopter Squadron fleet — a CH-148 Cyclone helicopter — is fresh from the manufacturer. “Some of them still have the new-car . . .

Local

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. . .

Opinion

To stay cool, leave house windows closed or open?

Phillip Jang / Times Colonist

The assumption here is that you want to keep your house as cool as possible in hot weather without resorting to air conditioning.

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