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Trevor Hancock: Let’s govern as if we live on an island

Lawrie McFarlane: Coming-of-age tale a good reminder of paying ...

Monique Keiran: The terrible toll of plastic bags

Charla Huber: Investing in kindness brings its own reward

Geoff Johnson: ‘Presentism’ denies history’s ugly realities

Comment: B.C.’s education system no hotbed of systemic racism

Les Leyne: Scope-shrink meets cost-creep on highway jobs

Editorial: A plan to reduce drug prices runs the risk of cutting off ...

Comment: How Sports Hall of Fame is adapting to an unusual year

Comment: Homophobia has no place in our blood donations

Comment: Let’s reimagine our streets, and give pedestrians priority

Comment: Police officers serve for all the right reasons

Comment: Pandemic exceptionalism is a public policy hazard

Adrian Raeside cartoon: Plastic bags

Adrian Raeside cartoon: Celebrating Canada Day during a pandemic

Les Leyne: Tuition revenue slump could crimp budgets

Island Voices: What's next for the Northern Junk buildings?

Geoff Johnson: ‘Framework’ key for today’s kids

Lawrie McFarlane: It’s elementary, my dear: Holmes was hardly a ...

Monique Keiran: There's COVID, then there's corvid

Charla Huber: No room for complacency in our changing world

Trevor Hancock: Neoliberalism is a major threat to well-being

Editorial: We need to change how care homes are operated

Les Leyne: NDP responds with petulance to charge that it had ...

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Letters July 4: Keeping the border closed; bike lanes not needed

Letters July 3: Appreciating the police; support for mentally ill; American travellers

Letters July 2: Harbour ferries; camping at Beacon Hill; rail travel

Letters June 30: Campers at Beacon Hill; reflecting on Canada Day

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Helen Chesnut’s Garden Notes: For continuing harvests, pick vegetables often

White-throated sparrows change their tune from three notes to two

Ask Ellie: Pandemic raises anxiety levels; search for ways to ease worries

Your Good Health: Rarely discussed ‘shy bladder’ leads to trouble with police

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A ‘good escape:’ campsites packed with Islanders in family bubbles

Southern resident whales returning later to Salish Sea in ‘drastic’ change

View Royal to join livestreamers; some councils take other routes

Jack Knox: Municipal dissonance could drive you to drink

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Dr. Bonnie Henry honoured at mural exhibition, picks up Fluevog shoes...

Mud slide cripples Seymour Arm water system, high water closes some ...

Closing arguments heard in trial of man accused of murdering his wife

Thirteen new COVID-19 cases reported in B.C., no additional deaths

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VIDEO: Victoria violinist Chloe Kim launches concert series

B.C. Archives Reference Room reopens to public

Victoria’s Jimbo seeks drag-queen crown

AP Exclusive: Prince Royce gets a wake-up call with COVID-19

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Tories, NDP at odds over federal spending as Liberals prepare fiscal snapshot

COVID-19 scare sees Latvia-bound troops turn around, return to Canada

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Young Syrian refugee gives back to Quebec by working at long-term care home

Local

Spotted: Giant insect like a cross between moth and tarantula

Louise Dickson / Times Colonist

Chantal Contorines was walking to her car when her daughter Sofia spotted an enormous insect on the pavement under a tree. “What is that, Mom?” asked the nine-year-old. Contorines didn’t have a. . .

Local

Pride week goes virtual, telling history of memorial drag game

Roxanne Egan-Elliott / Times Colonist

As Victoria’s Pride week goes virtual, the Pride society is taking the opportunity to share some local history. In place of the memorial drag ball game, one of the week’s most popular events, . . .

Op-Ed

Comment: Police officers serve for all the right reasons

Nancy Saggar / .

A commentary by a constable with the West Shore RCMP. I’ve been a police officer for 11 years now. I am definitely used to public criticisms of my organization and police officers as a whole.. . .

Local

New protocols in place at Victoria International Airport

Carla Wilson / Times Colonist

Clear-plastic barriers, signs, and specific entry and exit doorways are among new health-and-safety features unveiled this week at Victoria International Airport. The TravelSafe YYJ program was . . .

Local

Jack Knox: How teams, with police on board, wrestle with crises on Victoria streets

Jack Knox / Times Colonist

Here, while the spotlight shines on the way police deal with mental illness on the streets, is a slice of the existing reality. Seven people are huddled around a table, poring over a list of . . .

Local

Camosun College temporarily shutting down continuing education program

Andrew Duffy / Times Colonist

Camosun College is temporarily shutting down its Continuing Education Department and laying off staff as a result of the pandemic.In two memos distributed to staff, the college says the decisions are. . .

Homes

House Beautiful: Side gate leads to impossibly long garden

Grania Litwin / Times Colonist

What: Teeny Tiny Garden Tour Where: Watch online, rain or shine, at victoriahospice.org/events/teenytinygardentour When: Through this month and July 31 Tickets: In lieu of buying a ticket, . . .

Local

‘Twins with a twist’: biological mom and surrogate were pregnant at same time

Katie DeRosa / Times Colonist

Margo and Ian Sheldon tried to have a baby for six years, enduring the pain of multiple miscarriages and a full-term still birth. Last week, four days apart, their two babies arrived. The . . .

Local

From a condo to a tent: Life in Beacon Hill Park

Roxanne Egan-Elliott / Times Colonist

A few months ago, Chris was living in a $600,000 condo. Now, after his second divorce, he sleeps in a tent in Beacon Hill Park. “I slowly lost all of my stuff,” said Chris, who’s on the hook for . . .

Op-Ed

Ben Pires: How I deal with discrimination

Ben Pires / .

This is my personal way, one person’s way. You may have a different approach and I respect it. First, I recognize that discrimination has existed since the beginning of humans on Earth. It exists. . .

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