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Federal promises to create a network of marine protected areas are progressing at a snail’s pace, and there are fears that federal cutbacks will slow the process even further, says a report by the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society.

One of Canada’s leading chroniclers of military history, who championed a way for other veterans to tell their stories to younger generations, died Tuesday in Saanich at the age of 91.

A true intellectual who was quiet and humble is how family, friends and colleagues described Roderick MacIsaac at a memorial service Thursday at the University of Victoria’s Interfaith Chapel.

A 73-year-old Victoria woman in a downtown crosswalk was thrown about 12 metres after she was struck by a car Thursday afternoon.

There may be some diamonds in the rough among those piles of pennies that Canadians have socked away in jars, say local coin collectors.

In a video made the day after 15-year-old Justin Wendland was stabbed to death, Cory Daniel Barry tells a police interviewer that he was being followed and feared for his life. The video was played Thursday in Barry’s ongoing B.C.

A pipe bombed found outside the SilverCity theatre at Tillicum Centre on Thursday morning turned out to have been already detonated. Saanich police were called to the theatre about 10 a.m., after an employee noticed the suspicious item outside.

The B.C. Teachers’ Federation wasted little time Thursday dismissing Premier Christy Clark’s proposal for a 10-year labour deal.

Another former Traveller’s Inn could be transformed into small, affordable housing units. Victoria’s planning and land used committee has recommended a proposal to redevelop a former 27-room Traveller’s Inn motel at 626 Gorge Rd.

Victoria and Esquimalt mayors are joining the push to make regional policing a key issue in the upcoming provincial election.