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John Nuttall was a talented guitarist who also sang and played the drums, but his unpredictable behaviour left him constantly in search of musicians who could tolerate his periodic outbursts, says a former bandmate.

Victoria police are keeping a protective eye on Victoria’s Muslim community in the wake of the foiled Canada Day bomb plot.

Had an alleged terror plot succeeded in maiming or killing people crowded around the B.C. legislature on Canada Day, the health authority says it would have been able to deal with the carnage.

A Victoria resident is hoping to carry on the spirit of Tiny — the badly neglected Shih Tzu found on Prior Street last summer — and open a shelter for dogs rescued from high-kill shelters in the United States.

Anita Johnstone of North Saanich said she and her family are ready for the next round now that the man who stabbed her sister to death in 1998 has been denied parole for the fourth time.

A former Victoria man charged in connection with a terrorist plot to injure or kill people attending Canada Day celebrations at the B.C. legislature has suffered from emotional issues his whole life, his defence lawyer said Wednesday.

An angry public has pushed regional politicians into abandoning plans for a sewage sludge facility at Viewfield Road in Esquimalt.

The roof of an upscale Beach Drive home was destroyed in a blaze early Wednesday. The fire at 57 Beach Dr. began just after 1 a.m., said Oak Bay police Deputy Chief Kent Thom.

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.