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TORONTO - An internal survey suggests the federal correctional service and the prisons it runs are a "toxic" place to work, with many respondents reporting acts of harassment or discrimination by co-workers and bosses.

When University of Victoria support staff threatened to strike last fall, the university argued dormitory cooks and cleaners should have to stay on the job because today’s students — and here I paraphrase — couldn’t go to the can unless mom replaced

Soft piles of soil near the waterfront at Royal Roads University hold hopes for the future and a link to the past for a dozen students from Shoreline Middle School.

When Lewis George looks at the paintings he created as a child more than half a century ago, he sees artwork that changed the course of his life.

Malcolm Howard of Victoria, already a part of rowing history with Olympic gold and silver medals with the Elk Lake-based Canadian eight, further embedded himself in rowing lore Sunday in London.

The stone of heaven waited years before Brian Matheson learned to hear its voice. After finally getting his attention, its first words were: “Keep your mouth shut and we’ll get along fine.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - After a nine-month delay, "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" deployed to the top spot at the box office.

TORONTO - Canada's prison guards are essentially being left to their own devices when it comes to treating inmates with basic human respect, according to an internal survey report obtained by The Canadian Press.

B.C. lawyers have been able to qualify as family-law mediators since 1985. And mediation — which involves a lawyer or trained mediator who does not take sides — is a well-known way of resolving disputes without going to court.

When couples break up, they rarely need help fighting.