Greater Victoria students walk out, protest proposed budget cuts – Oak Bay News

McBride, who helped to organize her school’s walkout, said budget cuts proposed by School District 61 would reduce choir to one lesson per week and cut string instruments entirely from elementary and middle schools. Daytime janitors are also on the chopping board, which McBride said she didn’t think was smart given the COVID pandemic. Samara […]

Langford names staffers as municipal election officers – Oak Bay News

She has worked for the city since June 2020, starting as acting manager of legislative services before becoming manager of legal services. Several city staffers have also been appointed as deputy election officers. As was the case for the municipal election in 2018, Cherish Community Living on Avril Road, Alexander Mackie Lodge on Station Road, […]

BC announces further supports to revitalize tourism economy – Oak Bay News

“We welcome these kinds of events and it’s fantastic when many different Canadian cities can get together to host,” he said. Another piece of the province’s strategic framework is funding training for people who want to work in the tourism and hospitality industry. This new funding builds on the $570 million the provincial government has […]

Partnership aims to get middle-income earners into Victoria’s tight housing market – Oak Bay News

The partnership – between the province, BC Housing and Chard Development – will see 104 units built in Haven, a six-storey condominium project at 1109 and 1115 Johnson St. BC Housing will administer the second mortgage for all 104 units and buyers will not need to repay the mortgage until the 25-year term limit expires […]

Prime minister calls freezing deaths of four near U.S. border mind-boggling, tragic – Oak Bay News

Four frozen bodies, including those of a baby and a teen, were found Wednesday in the snow near Emerson, Man., just metres from the U.S. “This is a grave tragedy. Around the same time, the documents say, five other people were spotted by law enforcement in the snow nearby. RCMP say officers searching in deep […]