Life

Ask Ellie: Sperm donor unsure of role once baby arrives

Ellie / Times Colonist

Dear Ellie: Last January, before the novel coronavirus changed our lives, my close female friend and I were celebrating 2020. She lives in another city and had been visiting her ...

Health

Your Good Health: New vaccines must be held to the highest standards of safety

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Not spooked by the pandemic, haunted houses find ways around COVID-19

Food & Drink

Eric Akis: Get dunking with two tasty dips

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39 Chinese are Thailand's 1st foreign tourists in 7 months

World

Plot thickens over origins of pope's civil union endorsement

World

'Bad Hair' movie explores Black women and hairstyle messages

Homes

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Local

Add your house to our spook-tacular map of Halloween displays

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For working Santas, it won't be a green Christmas as parades, other paid gigs dry up

Royal Wedding

Duke and Duchess of Sussex convene session on digital world

B.C. developers bring the extraordinary to the edge of downtown Victoria

Business

WestJet to refund some passengers whose flights were cancelled because of COVID-19

World

Francis becomes 1st pope to endorse same-sex civil unions

Life

Ask Ellie: Divorce can be very difficult for children

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Local

Vancouver Island candidates in the 2020 B.C. provincial election

The Times Colonist

Here is the final list of provincial election candidates running in Vancouver Island’s 14 ridings. Victoria-Beacon Hill NDP — UVic researcher and lecturer Grace Lore will run in place of 15-. . .

Local

Dallas Road sights, from cyclists to paragliders to a certain doctor, rendered in driftwood

Roxanne Egan-Elliott / Times Colonist

A miniature version of Dallas Road made almost entirely out of driftwood and complete with cyclists, paragliders, whales, Terry Fox’s angel and a flying Dr. Bonnie Henry is on display in an Oak Bay. . .

Local

VicPD officers asked to remove thin blue line patches after complaints

Roxanne Egan-Elliott / Times Colonist

Victoria police officers who wore the thin blue line symbol on their uniform were asked to remove the unauthorized patch after a social media post prompted complaints.A photo posted to Twitter in . . .

Food & Drink

Eric Akis: Get dunking with two tasty dips

Eric Akis / Cooking with Eric

Ladies and gentlemen, roll up your sleeves and get ready to dunk! Today I have a couple of tasty dips for you to try that will require you to grab some tortilla chips and happily dunk away. One . . .

Local

Man in video of encounter with cougar and kittens gets a 'solid B' from Island expert

Roxanne Egan-Elliott / Times Colonist

The man who captured rare footage of an encounter with a cougar and her kittens gets a passing grade from a local wildlife expert for staying mostly calm while backing away — and not running — from. . .

Entertainment

Phillips label designer inspired by everything from Group of Seven to graffiti

Mike Devlin / Times Colonist

The art of painter, illustrator and graphic designer Shawn O’Keefe has many iterations, from his graffiti-accented designs with Victoria’s adventurous Woodpile Collective to the bright and colourful creations that adorn the bottles and cans of Phillips Brewing and Malting Co.

Life

A tribute to B.C. news anchor Deb Hope

Clive Jackson,  Ian Haysom / Special to the Times Colonist

For two generations Deb Hope had been one of the most iconic faces in B.C. She read the news at noon, 5 p.m. and ultimately at the station’s top-rated flagship newscast, BCTV — now Global — News . . .

Business

Pumpkin shortage? Depends on where you look

Darron Kloster / Times Colonist

Having trouble finding the perfect pumpkin this year? You might have to go to the source. While one of the major growers in the capital region scaled back planting plans for pumpkins in the . . .

Local

Nature lovers warned to avoid death cap mushrooms, lethal for humans and pets

Cindy E. Harnett / Times Colonist

When amateur mycologist Jason Gowen crouches down over a death cap mushroom, he doesn’t just see the grave risk, but also the beauty: the smoothness of its cap and the chemical lab within its . . .

Local

Jack Knox: My 100-year-old mother's lesson: we can endure

Jack Knox / Times Colonist

My mother turns 100 years old today, totally screwing up my retirement-budget calculations. I put her longevity down to stubbornness. She never was a quitter, except when it came to cigarettes. (. . .

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