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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.

Saanich has closed Gorge Road West between Tillicum and Admirals roads until the fall in order to replace old sewer lines.

Victoria was also the a focal point for a major terrorism-related story that began in December 1999, when al-Qaeda-trained Ahmed Ressam was detained after an alert U.S. customs agent became suspicious of his nervous manner.

Police have foiled a terrorist plot to explode three bombs filled with rusty nails near thousands of people attending Canada Day celebrations at the B.C. legislature, the RCMP said Tuesday.

Thousands of residents and visitors descended on downtown Victoria on Monday to take part in Canada’s 146th birthday celebrations.