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Porpoise skull stolen from Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea

Jeff Bell / Times Colonist

A porpoise skull that has been on display at the Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea for a dozen years has gone missing, and staff at the Sidney attraction are hoping it will be returned. The skull is. . .

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Cold comfort: Interest in chilly swims grows as a pandemic stress-reliever

Roxanne Egan-Elliott / Times Colonist

When Andy Bernhart started taking a daily dip in the ocean at Willows Beach in mid-2019, he was joined by a few friends who thought he was crazy but maybe also onto something. They often get . . .

Food & Drink

Eric Akis: Pork piccata with lively lemony sauce

Eric Akis / Times Colonist

A little bit of lemon can lift up the flavour of a wide range of savoury dishes. Today it provides that support in an Italian-style dish called piccata. Piccata is made by sautéing an escalope — . . .

Homes

House Beautiful: Modernized 1903 Esquimalt cottage retains historic charm

Kim Pemberton / The Times Colonist

If architecture is a barometer of culture, how can homes that housed families more than 100 years ago be best adapted to suit modern families? That was the challenge facing Johanne Hemond and her. . .

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With jackhammer, drill, saw and sledgehammer, firefighters rescue cat from pipe

Cindy E. Harnett / Times Colonist

Victoria firefighters jackhammered, sledgehammered, clawed and cut their way into a basement drain pipe to rescue a cat named Willow that had wedged herself into the four-inch metal tube. And the. . .

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Death of Langford teen spurs calls for barriers along Goldstream Trestle

Katie DeRosa / Times Colonist

It was only after his sister died by suicide there in July that Vincent Gornall made the hike up to the Goldstream Trestle to stand where she last stood. Looking at the disused rail line and the . . .

B.C.

B.C. ministry warned birth alerts 'illegal and unconstitutional' months before banning them

Bayleigh Marelj,  Anna McKenzie,  Brielle Morgan / Local Journalism Initiative, The Discourse

Months before British Columbia officially ended the controversial practice of birth alerts, government lawyers advised the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) that the practice was “. . .

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Ogden Point's 1917 breakwater watched as blocks lift and shift

Darron Kloster / Times Colonist

Officials are keeping a close eye on the Ogden Point Breakwater as the enduring symbol of Victoria’s waterfront enters a second century of crushing waves, severe storms and potentially higher sea . . .

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Victoria hotline offers sounds to inspire joy and calm during pandemic

Pedro Arrais / Times Colonist

Anyone feeling isolated and stressed out over the pandemic can call a phone hotline and hear sounds meant to inspire joy and calm, thanks to a project by the City of Victoria’s artist in residence.. . .

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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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