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$4 billion in new funding for health, mental-health and pandemic response

Cindy E. Harnett / Times Colonist

B.C.’s finance minister announced $4 billion in new funding over three years for enhancements in health, mental health and pandemic response, as she delivered her first budget on Monday. The . . .

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Church's affordable-housing project falls through amid 'skyrocketing' building costs, delays

Jeff Bell / Times Colonist

The bishop of the Anglican Diocese of B.C. says the cancellation of a 24-unit affordable-housing project on the property of St. Peter and St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Esquimalt is a “case study” . . .

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Pig house at Sandown dismantled after failing to comply with bylaws

Carla Wilson / Times Colonist

The Fickle Fig’s pigs were in hog heaven in their roomy new hoop house — protected from bad weather and able to nestle next with each other. But the house is now gone, taken down from its site on. . .

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A mother speaks out amid bid to decriminalize personal drug use in B.C.

Roxanne Egan-Elliott / Times Colonist

The last time Maureen Vincent saw her son, she remembers thinking as she drove off that she needed to find a way to get him into recovery. It was April 10, 2020, and she was visiting him at Topaz. . .

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Langford father with terminal cancer has gift of 'absolutely magical' wedding

Roxanne Egan-Elliott / Times Colonist

A Langford couple facing a ­terminal cancer diagnosis ­married on Monday, after a dozen wedding vendors came together to give the pair a ­special ceremony with just three days of planning. After . . .

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Comment: There's good reason to be wary of travelling on a plane during a pandemic

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A commentary by a former Times Colonist columnist. A friend once had me doubled over with laughter by describing airplanes as “petri dishes with wings.” Another, risking her car on Victoria’s . . .

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Woman pulls neighbour to safety after explosion: ‘Your mind says go, you go’

Louise Dickson / Times Colonist

On Saturday afternoon, Suzanne Fortin heard “one hell of a boom” and rushed out of her home at the Duncan RV Park. “At first I thought it was a tree that fell on one of the units and then I saw . . .

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Pender Island couple only eating what they can grow and catch

Darron Kloster / Times Colonist

Stef Lowey would love a slice a pizza, but a seaweed salad with grated bull kelp, beets and carrots will have to do. Likewise for Chris Hall. A Starbucks would go down well right about now, but . . .

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Deaths of tiny songbirds linked to salmonella in feeders

Darron Kloster / Times Colonist

Tiny songbirds are dying on the south Island and other parts of the province from a salmonella outbreak linked to bird feeders and baths. Pine siskins, nomadic finches with pointed bills and . . .

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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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Jack Knox: A street survivor’s perspective

Jack Knox / Times Colonist

Somewhere between the two extremes — those who want to hug all the messed-up people on the street, and those who would happily hose them into the Inner Harbour — stands Sue McMurter. On one hand,. . .

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