Opinion

Comment: A child’s struggle with addiction can create a bond among ...

Editorial: Pipeline protest that blocked streets was a plodding farce

Comment: Air India anniversary: Who remembers the children?

Comment: Avoiding climate chaos means zeroing in on emissions

Comment: Trans Mountain pipeline could benefit First Nations

Editorial: Saanich council jammed out

Comment: Follow the Raptors' model for a better life

Editorial: Trans Mountain pipeline is a political football

Comment: Bullying on various levels, even in political world

Comment: What is it like to be the mother of an addict?

Editorial: Study shows B.C. getting a big bang for its education ...

Comment: Victoria Chamber defends horse carriage industry

Comment: Rethink decision to axe plan for Parksville retirement home

Editorial: The real cost of pharmacare

Comment: Rise and fall of economics and climate

Comment: Argument for a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages falls flat

Comment: Delay in passing bill is affecting children’s health

Comment: Looking for cure to housing problem not a Band-Aid solution

Comment: Health care: Be careful what you wish for

Comment: Victoria then and now

Comment: Isitt is playing a political game that we have seen before

Comment: Politics gauging Canadian taste for guacamole

Comment: D-Day warning that echoes from history to today's world

Comment: Society’s view may not always reflect the truth

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Letters June 23: Jam stand, pipeline, school support, whining, amagamation and cyclists

Letters June 22: Coal, conservation, construction, pipeline and pharmacare

Letters June 21: Horse carriages, taxes, amalgamation, Melania Trump and oil

Letters June 20: Pipeline, debate or parade, green energy and kudos to Victoria

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Nearly one quarter of moms experience postpartum depression or anxiety: StatCan

Your Good Health: Woman needs evaluation for iron deficiency

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Eric Akis: Latin American ceviche, B.C. style

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Texts never showed teen dealing drugs at school, lawyer tells inquest

Councillors want city to help after legion’s tax bill soars to $104,231

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’80s phenom Corey Hart wows fans at Victoria concert

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Tonight: Corey Hart returns to Victoria, and this time it’s about the songs

Viola Davis determined to go above and beyond on diversity

Steamy romance novelist Judith Krantz dies at 91

Sunfest Brings the Best of Country to the Valley

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Local

Victoria terrier Poppie back home after wild trek to isolated island

Richard Watts / Times Colonist

A Victoria terrier is back home after three days and nights on the loose, surviving the streets, ocean currents and an overnight stay on an isolated island populated with predators such as mink and. . .

Business

Obituary: A toast to grandfather of craft-brewing industry and Spinnakers co-founder

Andrew Duffy / Times Colonist

The man responsible for the eclectic mix of beer available on tap and at the liquor stores around the province has died. John Mitchell, considered the grandfather of the craft-brewing industry in. . .

Entertainment

Selecting acts for Victoria Jazz Festival a fine art; plus five top picks

Mike Devlin / Times Colonist

The continued success of the annual TD Victoria International Jazz Festival would not be possible without founder and festival producer Darryl Mar.

National

Victoria Butterfly Gardens keeper manages to film large tarantula shedding exoskeleton

Dirk Meissner / The Canadian Press

VICTORIA — A 20-centimetre tarantula capable of killing a bird has been filmed at its most vulnerable state shedding its armour-like exoskelton at a Victoria-area tropical jungle insectarium. . . .

Islander

A preview of the Island's summer festivals and events

Mike Devlin / Times Colonist

The music community on Vancouver Island has undergone a seismic shift the past few years, with postponement or cancellation of some of the area’s biggest festivals, leaving the future of summer . . .

Opinion

To stay cool, leave house windows closed or open?

Phillip Jang / Times Colonist

The assumption here is that you want to keep your house as cool as possible in hot weather without resorting to air conditioning.

Blogs

How to travel between Victoria and Vancouver on public transit, 2019 ed.

Phillip Jang / Times Colonist

Travelling between Victoria and Vancouver on public transit is straightforward, but it is multi-step, requires at least three types of fares, and is not suited for the impatient and the easily . . .

Local

Gallery: Kids' weather art

Times Colonist

Want a chance to see your kids' weather art on the Times Colonist weather page and on our website? Send an email to localnews@timescolonist.com with "weather art" in the subject line, or mail it to: Times Colonist (Weather Art)2621 Douglas St.

Local

Lifetime ban from Empress for pepperoni seagull fiasco has been lifted

Katie DeRosa / Times Colonist

After he inadvertently trashed one of its room with packs of pepperoni and a flock of seagulls, the Empress Hotel has granted a Nova Scotia man a pardon and lifted a lifetime ban. Seventeen years. . .

Blogs

The do’s and don’ts of wearing a mask to protect yourself from wildfire smoke

Phillip Jang / Times Colonist

You need to wear the right type of mask, and to wear it properly, to ward off wildfire smoke. That’s the message from the experts. Here’s a summary of their advice. If you’re going to wear a mask. . .

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