Local News

Some call it "chugging" - short for charity mugging. Wearing brightly coloured, logo-emblazoned bibs, paid canvassers stand on street corners, wave as you walk by and ask you to talk to them.

The Department of Citizenship and Immigration spent almost $750,000 monitoring ethnic media over the past three years, including assessments of election campaign events and "perceptions" of minister Jason Kenney.

GREENWOOD, Major Alex Late the Royal Lincolnshire Regt. Aged 92. Peacefully in Nanaimo General Hospital on 7th November. Beloved husband of Shirley, father of Nicholas and Jane and adopted daughter Sara.

A former elementary school teacher in Port McNeill has been charged with possessing and distributing child pornography.

A longtime Cowichan Tribes political activist who organized First Nations housing protests in the 1960s has died. Abraham Casper Joe, 86, died in Duncan General Hospital Nov. 11.

A survey of 21 school districts has found that only Greater Victoria and Kamloops-Thompson prevent the public from asking questions during regular board meetings.

On our webside today

By Pico IyerSANTA BARBARA, Calif. — There was once a little bookstore, tucked into an unglamorous mall on the wrong side of town, where few visitors were likely to stumble upon it.

Police urged software company founder John McAfee Tuesday to come in for questioning and help solve the killing of his American neighbour on the Caribbean island where they lived.

Greater Victoria bus drivers are claiming a major victory after B.C. Transit backed away from its plan to use replacement workers for backlogged maintenance work during an ongoing labour dispute.