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Just like the city, it's celebrating

A 43-year-old professor says she fought off a grizzly bear that stalked her and her nieces by throwing everything she had at it - including a package of macaroni and cheese.

Click here to download application form Raise a Reader Application Guidelines for 2012 1. Organizations applying for funding must demonstrate the ability to aid or further literacy within the Times Colonist delivery area through non-profit projects.

It was East meets West in Victoria on Wednesday as Hollywood and Bollywood created movie magic. Two Punjabi film stars turned heads on the Inner Harbour during a songanddance number for Singh vs.

The head of Catalyst Paper believes the provincial government could have done more to help the company stay afloat.

Liberals upset at last-minute amendments are looking at ways to put off a decision

BILL 54, WHERE ARE YOU? - The epic forced about-face on the HST is just too much for NDP MLAs to handle. The bill restoring the provincial sales tax is such a rich target of opportunity they don't know where to take aim.

The annual Times Colonist book sale raised $153,706 on Saturday and Sunday, $282 more than last year. The book sale has generated almost $1.7 million for literacy programs since its inception in 1998 and is part of the national RaiseaReader campaign.

Sometimes adults forget how fairy tales shape their lives. At the Times Colonist Book Sale, these same grown-ups politely step around a tiny brown-haired girl sprawled out - belly down - on the basement floor of the Victoria Curling Club.

Victoria cyclist makes history in Italy and is immortalized at home