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Cannabis producer Tilray closing its Nanaimo operations

Carla Wilson / Times Colonist

Major marijuana producer Tilray has announced it will shut down operations in Nanaimo and focus cultivation in B.C. at its Broken Coast facility in Duncan. The Canadian company will close its . . .

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Columnist Les Leyne finalist for journalism award

The Times Colonist

Times Colonist legislature columnist Les Leyne has been named a finalist for the Jack Webster Awards, which recognize excellence in B.C. journalism.Leyne is one of three nominees — the others are . . .

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Billy the Goat visits Courtenay big-box stores while on the lam

Darron Kloster / Times Colonist

Billy the Goat likes to go shopping. He was seen checking out the specials inside the Courtenay Walmart, and apparently went looking for something to wear — or more likely eat — in Winners. The. . .

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Government offices, schools to close for Sept. 30 holiday, but businesses undecided

Darron Kloster,  Andrew Duffy / Times Colonist

Students won’t be in class and federal and some provincial employees will get a day off, but the new Sept. 30 holiday in honour of National Truth and Reconciliation Day won’t be mandatory in all . . .

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With plenty of seals to eat, Bigg's orcas flooding Salish Sea; no longer regarded as 'transient'

Darron Kloster / Times Colonist

She’s known as T37A, and was recently nicknamed Volker. But whale watchers in the Salish Sea fondly refer to the 27-year-old Bigg’s orca as the “baby machine.” Volker has produced five calves . . .

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It was not for nothing, says mother of fallen soldier who served in Afghanistan

Cindy E. Harnett / Times Colonist

Maureen Eykelenboom is filled with sadness watching the ­Taliban capture parts of Afghanistan, but Canada’s presence there and her son’s death “was not for nothing,” she said. Cpl. Andrew (Boomer. . .

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Jack Knox: The mystery of the tombstone in the garden

Jack Knox / Times Colonist

“There’s a tombstone in my parents’ garden,” began the email from Kate Whyte. “My grandfather passed it down to my dad about 20 years ago, but it didn’t belong to him. In fact, it doesn’t belong to. . .

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One year later: Pender Island couple living off the land more than met the challenge

Darron Kloster / Times Colonist

Stef Lowey and Chris Hall will pop the cork on a bottle of champagne on Aug. 2 — at exactly 12:01 a.m. “It’s been sitting on our counter top all year staring at us,” Hall says with a laugh. It . . .

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Invasion of the wall lizards: They are beyond eradication on Island

Darron Kloster / Times Colonist

They are crawling all over Saanich and Victoria, in thick bunches on the Peninsula and in Langford. They’ve been spotted in Metchosin. There are large populations in Shawnigan Lake and Nanaimo and . . .

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Comment: 'This is the trauma our families have carried for generations'

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A statement by the Green MLA for Saanich North and the Islands in the legislature on Monday. Today my family and the entire B.C. Green caucus team stands with our relatives in the Interior. We . . .

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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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