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The RCMP said the bomb plot targeting the B.C. legislature had some level of al-Qaida inspiration, but University of Victoria political science professor Scott Watson believes no formal connection exists.

As opposition grows to a sewage sludge facility in Esquimalt, residents near the next most likely location for the plant, Hartland landfill, say they don’t want sludge near their homes either.

The former Victoria man at the centre of an alleged plan to bomb the B.C. legislature on Canada Day has been involved in past court cases on the Island.

Could there be a less likely terrorist target than leafy, peaceful, backwater Victoria? “No one would have expected it in Boston, either,” replied Umar Muhammad, pushing a stroller across the legislature lawn Tuesday.

A four-year-old boy is in critical condition after being found unresponsive in a residential swimming pool in Cowichan Bay on Sunday.

Opinions on whether to keep some of Beacon Hill Park’s internal roadways shut to vehicle traffic are all over the map, says Kate Friars, Victoria’s director of parks and recreation.

There’s more than one way to rezone for a sewage treatment plant at McLoughlin Point.

The Victoria Cool Aid Society plans to begin a $4-million fundraising campaign this year to more than double its supported housing units from the existing 351.

Pressure-cooker bombs like those left at the legislature on Canada Day would have had a “devastating” effect if they had exploded in the presence of a large crowd, possibly injuring hundreds.

SURREY — A Surrey couple charged with plotting a terrorist attack against the B.C. legislature lived on welfare, visited a local mosque and listened to radical Islamist tapes in their basement suite, their landlady said Tuesday.