Islander

As B.C.’s and Canada’s first independent seniors’ advocate, Isobel Mackenzie took over a Victoria office 16 months ago that was empty except for a computer, stapler and pencil sharpener.

Low-income seniors often face hardships because they are unable to afford health essentials such as hearing aids, glasses, dental care, wheelchairs and walkers, says B.C.’s independent seniors’ advocate.

In his latest novel, Victoria’s Grant McKenzie offers tips on how to make cadavers look their very best.

If you didn’t get a chance to celebrate the Queen becoming the longest-reigning monarch in British history on Wednesday, it wasn’t for lack of local festivities.

Chris Savage is an artist from Victoria, a slender and well-spoken young man. You’d never guess to look at him that he had played hockey for the Victoria Cougars in the past.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on Sept. 7, 1940.

In the four decades that I’ve walked the trail to Tod Inlet, I can’t pretend to know the place. Its apparent stillness mocks me.

More than 175 women from across Vancouver Island ran five kilometres of trails and tackled 12 demanding obstacles at Victoria’s only all-women charity obstacle adventure race last Sunday.

SAN JUAN ISLANDS, Washington — Against a backdrop of rocky bluffs, a pod of orcas jumped out of the emerald waters of the Puget Sound before splashing their massive black-and-white bodies back into the water.

Recently, at Puppet Central, I spoke with Tim Gosley, instigator of Puppets for Peace festival, which he called a “mini Fringe Festival for puppets.” Gosley is a thorough-going puppet person, a child of his father’s Victoria legend, the Smile Show.