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Rare fish washes ashore at Whiffen Spit

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Dana LeCompte was out for a family walk Friday at Whiffen Spit in Sooke when something shiny caught her eye. “We thought it was a piece of metal, a piece of a shipwreck or something,” said . . .

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Woman awarded $35,000 after condo building refuses to accommodate wheelchair

Katie DeRosa / Times Colonist

A Nanaimo woman who uses a wheelchair has been awarded $35,000 in damages after the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal found her condo board’s refusal to make the building accessible made her a “prisoner . . .

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Pinball Club opens in newly renovated Powerhouse building

Mike Devlin / Times Colonist

The team behind Quazar’s Arcade is giving pinball fanatics an opportunity to stay engaged during the pandemic with a new members-only pinball venue at a unique site in downtown Victoria.The . . .

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House Beautiful: Take a virtual tour of historic Blair Gowie House

Grania Litwin / The Times Colonist

It seems as if just about everything is going online these days — and that includes house tours. The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and its volunteer group, the Gallery Associates, is launching a virtual version of the annual house tour on Sunday, and it will feature one of the city’s most fascinating and fabulous homes.

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Premier calls out video referring to Nanaimo bars as 'Canadian chocolate bars'

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There are a few foods that are top of the list for being quintessentially Canadian treats: Butter tarts. Poutine. Nanaimo bars. So when Buzzfeed Canada put out a video this week called “Canadian . . .

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Newly discovered fish species named after Sooke fossil hunter

Roxanne Egan-Elliott / Times Colonist

Steve Suntok spends most of his weekends scouring river canyons on Vancouver Island for hints of the past. A self-described fossil hunter, Suntok estimates he’s found about 1,000 to 2,000 fossils. . .

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Retired Victoria broadcaster finds long-lost tapes of Joni Mitchell recording session

Mike Devlin / Times Colonist

Two long-forgotten tapes featuring the first recordings of Joni Mitchell have come out of storage and into circulation, thanks to a serendipitous turn of events involving retired Victoria . . .

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It's spider season: 'We should just let them live and go about their business'

Darron Kloster / Times Colonist

There’s a saying among arachnologists that you’re never more than five feet from a spider. That’s especially true in British Columbia, where there are nearly 900 documented species of spiders — . . .

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Jack Knox: The Last Post for Salt Spring's Byron brothers

Jack Knox / Times Colonist

Terry Byron cracked himself up remembering VE Day. His wounds healed, he was in Aldershot, England, waiting to be sent back to the fighting when word of Germany’s surrender arrived in May 1945.. . .

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'Oh hell, you're not a dog': Saanich woman goes nose-to-nose with a big cat — twice

Darron Kloster / Times Colonist

Saanich resident Lynn Wright was getting ready for bed on Wednesday night and closing her back door when she noticed what she thought was a dog stretched out on her back porch. “I said: ‘How did . . .

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In rare photo, killer whale uses tail to toss seal high into the air

Roxanne Egan-Elliott / Times Colonist

A whale watching captain caught a rare sight on camera when a Bigg’s killer whale tossed a seal high in the air. Andrew Lees, who owns Five Star Whale Watching, brought his guests to the south . . .

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