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A Pender Island fire that heavily damaged a trailer this week is being investigated as arson. Outer Gulf Islands RCMP Cpl. Rod Pick said the Monday fire appears to have been deliberately set.

TODAY Boomers Rock ’n’ Roll from 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, 7:30 p.m. at Mary Winspear Centre, 2243 Beacon Ave., Sidney. Tickets at marywinspear.ca or tel. 250-656-0275. The 2013 Victoria Chinese New Year Gala, with music, dance, songs, comedy and drama.

A 75-year-old woman whose body was found in a wooded area off the Strathcona Parkway last April died from an overdose, according to the coroner.

An underground oil tank was the source of a small spill that leaked into Swan Creek and the Swan Lake Nature Sanctuary, a Saanich municipal manager says. The leak, which was reported Jan.

B.C.’s auditor general wants to examine every financial transaction made by the legislature last year, in a continuation of his scathing look into financial mismanagement at the capital buildings.

Victoria police officers moved in with guns drawn Friday afternoon to arrest a 43-year-old man, ending a tense situation on Gorge Road East. The incident began about 1:30 p.m.

OTTAWA - The Conservative government is asking the Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of its Senate reform proposals, amid pressure from the provinces, the opposition and even some of its own senators.

HALIFAX - Just over a year after his web of deceit unravelled in a drab police office, a Canadian naval officer convicted of selling secrets to Russian agents rose in court and issued a simple, 30-second apology.

HALIFAX - The RCMP in Nova Scotia are dismissing a reference in a Supreme Court of Canada decision that says they did not adequately respond to a woman's calls for help before she tried to hire a hit man to kill the husband she said was abusing her.

OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau wants to reverse his father's famous assessment of backbenchers as "just nobodies.