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A Camosun College who survived a massive blood clot in her lungs thanks to the work of a medical team at Victoria General Hospital has had a minor setback.

The painting reproduced here, Winter Walk, shows Robert Bateman’s wife, Birgit Freybe Bateman, taking one of the couple’s daily nature strolls. The celebrated Saltspring Island artist and Officer of the Order of Canada is big on hiking.

Former Victoria Coun. Philippe Lucas is hoping to cash in on the increasing need for quality control in the lucrative cannabis industry. “What we’ve got right now is a multi-billion-dollar industry. In B.C.

Three Saanich schools were vandalized during the weekend. Observant dog walkers out late Sunday night noticed smashed windows at Spectrum Community School, Saanich Police Sgt. John Price said Monday.

B.C. Ferries launched a civil suit in B.C. Supreme Court in Nanaimo on Friday against the German manufacturer of a control system on the Coastal Inspiration, saying equipment was partly to blame for a “hard landing” at Duke Point on Dec. 20, 2011.

Victoria police cordoned off an Esquimalt apartment building Sunday afternoon after a gunshot was heard from one of the suites. Apartment suites were evacuated around 304-1180 Colville Rd. and at about 5 p.m.

The miraculous survival and recovery of a Victoria student whose heart repeatedly stopped beating as the result of a massive blood clot in her lungs, is a testament to Victoria’s medical community, her parents say.

Boys and girls who know they will get a present under the tree sometimes need a little help so that they can give a gift to members of their family at Christmas.

He remembers them cutting off his pants. One minute James Cormier was walking across a country road, the next he was lying on the ground, looking up at the paramedics. “This guy just came too fast,” he said.

The week in apologies so far: • Conservative cabinet minister James Moore, after initially claiming he was taken out of context, apologized for saying hungry kids aren’t Ottawa’s problem.