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‘Sporting Disneyland’ awaits HarbourCats’ fans

‘Sporting Disneyland’ awaits HarbourCats’ fans

In the often-quirky world of minor-league baseball, stability can be a rare commodity.
New coach values work, and brings big-league esperience

New coach values work, and brings big-league esperience

Brian McRae was a rare second-generation Major League Baseball player, following his father Hal McRae into the majors. But that didn’t just happen. Genes aren’t that determinative. If they were, surely there would have been more Gretzkys in the NHL.
Our Community: Make a difference for African aid

Our Community: Make a difference for African aid

The music of George Gershwin is being enlisted to raise money for aid projects in Africa on Saturday at Cordova Bay United Church.
Robert Amos: A memorial to the fearless fighters

Robert Amos: A memorial to the fearless fighters

Lost Airmen of the Empire: what a beautiful title for a memorial to the 10,000 pilots who trained at Pat Bay during the Second World War.

Nellie McClung: Victory against aggression a simple matter of co-operation

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on June 21, 1941. During all the changing scenes of life since the last Great War, our complacency has received many shocks.
Vital People: A new home for the homeless

Vital People: A new home for the homeless

The future looks brighter for at-risk women and single mothers, aged 40 to 55 who face homelessness, as the Victoria Foundation funds a program to help prepare them for an eventual transition from supportive to independent housing.
Vital People: Helping to spread the voice of the marginalized

Vital People: Helping to spread the voice of the marginalized

Megaphone magazine, which helps marginalized people tell their stories, has hired a new vendor co-ordinator for Victoria, with help from a Victoria Foundation grant. The magazine is typically sold on the streets by homeless and low-income vendors.

Vital People: Three things for Canada

Recently, at the Community Foundations of Canada conference in Ottawa, I had the great honour of hosting an interview with Gov. Gen. David Johnston. During our discussion, he expressed his desire that Canada “be a nation of barn raisers.
Study finds how whales got so big

Study finds how whales got so big

You have the privilege of sharing the planet with the largest animal that ever lived on Earth. The great blue whale, which can be found in every ocean around the globe, is bigger than any dinosaur you’ve seen in a museum.
B.C. Election 2017: Final voting results

B.C. Election 2017: Final voting results

Following are the final results of voting in the 2017 British Columbia general election as compiled by The Canadian Press, from Elections B.C. data.