Islander

The Second Chance Café, which celebrated its official grand opening Dec. 1, is a social enterprise operated by survivors of brain injuries.

Decades of lax assessment coupled with the assumption that chemicals are innocent until proven guilty have left us and the ecosystem with a burden of toxins

So far this year, 15,075 people in British Columbia have registered for apprenticeships, up 20% from last year

The CPR’s invaluable and delicate glass negatives were recovered a couple of weeks after the sinking of the SS Pacific, according to reports in the Daily Colonist at the time

With the relationship between police and Indigenous people sometimes fraught, it’s good to hear of how an officer helped a woman who was moving into her first home, but had nothing to move.

I love the weird metallic clunking noises you hear when boarding, the random strange smells in whatever hallways are called on a boat, and even the long lines and crazy expense for mediocre food.

The B.C. mortgage broker denies it was a Ponzi scheme. Investors claim they are owed $312 million. A bankrupt Martel is now wanted on an arrest warrant and was last seen in Thailand.

Like salmon pooling at the river mouth waiting for conditions to improve, people may feel themselves at a standstill, with no way to navigate forward

Like the protesters, many people working in the non-profit housing sector have also lost friends and family members to the streets, or been homeless themselves

The way the ecological footprint is calculated means the estimate that Saanich’s is equivalent to four planets is an underestimate