5 September 2010, 10:58 am
Canada's largest big-city newspaper chain is under new ownership and management, and headed in a new direction.... Read More »
5 September 2010, 8:40 am
The Canadian Bodypainting Championships took place at University Canada West in Victoria, B.C.... Read More »
5 September 2010, 6:28 am
On the day the Tamil refugee ship docked in Victoria, my iPod touch shuffle played the classic Hollies tune He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.... Read More »
5 September 2010, 3:38 am
It was a disappointing weekend for Canadian Olympic supporters, especially hockey fans, after Canada lost to archrival U.S.A. in men’s hockey at the most anticipated event of the 2010 Winter Olympics so far.... Read More »
4 September 2010, 9:14 pm
Eleven drummers beat furiously on a large drum as they chanted a song of welcome. Elegantly carved eagles, orcas (killer whales), frogs and bears looked down from eight posts around the edge of the large room. An overflow crowd filled the ceremonial hall of the First Peoples House, a stunning new bu... Read More »
4 September 2010, 9:00 pm
Canada's Catherine Pendrel just missed the podium Saturday in the women's cross-country race at the World Mountain Bike Championships, finishing fourth in Mont Ste Anne, Que.... Read More »
4 September 2010, 7:41 pm
The legal fight over the Pandora Avenue tent city in Victoria may be moot. Regardless of its closure, the homeless are likely to stay... Read More »
3 September 2010, 3:04 pm
Michael Jarosz of Victoria has emerged as the top 18-year-old sailor in Canada. After four days and 12 races of swirling winds, splashing saltwater and stomach-churning waves, Jarosz and sailing partner Quinn Lessing of Port Moody returned victorious from the 2010 Sea Cadets National Regatta.... Read More »
3 September 2010, 10:00 am
Kerry Crofton travels with a land line phone, purposely stays in hotels that don’t offer wireless Internet in rooms and, when she gives her talk Tuesday night on the topic of wireless radiation, it will be in a downtown Vancouver venue selected because it purportedly has no such radiation.... Read More »
3 September 2010, 5:30 am
Iron Creek Capital Corp. is pleased to announce progress on the Victoria Joint Venture with Hochschild Mining Holdings Ltd. . The Victoria property, which covers 37km of continuous strike length of the highly productive Domeyko Fault Zone in northern Chile, is located approximately midway between th... Read More »