Jenna Tucker and her dad Jeff Tucker are the latest two generations to get in on the Pharmasave Oak Bay business. Roy Tucker earned his pharmacy degree at the University of British Columbia in 1955. As the business grew, Roy began looking for new digs. Jeff’s daughter, Jenna Tucker, has been an employee since she […]
Artist Logan Ford, leasing agent for Rockslide Studio, works on a piece at the grassroots arts organization’s new home at 780 Blanshard St. The Rockslide Studio Gallery serves Greater Victoria artists by providing affordable studio and exhibition space. …Read the full story
It will be the temporary home to one adoptable cat at a time. The Book Man fosters one cat at a time in its store for at least two weeks. The cat adoption window has already been a huge hit. Nose prints dot the outside of the window from people who have been trying to […]
“We didn’t have that before. …Read the full story
Deep Cove Market owner Rosemary Scott, pictured in 2020, disagrees with council’s decision to remove frontage parking spots around her store and create parallel street parking. “I’m 100 per cent opposed,” she said. District staff say the change is aimed at creating more space for pedestrians, as well as southbound cyclists on West Saanich, and […]
We are told that if we do not limit global warming to 1.5 C above pre-industrial levels by 2100, we’re doomed. However, William Nordhaus, winner of the Nobel Prize in 2018 for his seminal work on the economics of climate change, and the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have projected that even with an […]
Roberts decided to create a program where he wouldn’t charge for the cleaning, but would instead accept the rugs and pass them forward to the community. …Read the full story
Josh Gillingham, of Nanaimo, has set up the Vancouver Island Coffee Tour, a website that lists dozens of independent coffee roasters across the Island and Gulf Islands. The site is live and active, if basic, Gillingham said, but he’s adding more features in the run-up to its official launch over the Victoria Day long weekend, […]
The earliest example Kilburn could find was from more than 3,000 years ago when Persian-speaking people began decorating them for their new year’s celebration feast tables, which fall at the start of spring. Kilburn said early depictions of rabbits in medieval manuscripts show them violently hurting people with swords or tree branches. …Read the full […]
That means that women and families need to travel to Port Alberni, Nanaimo or Victoria to receive care. …Read the full story
On March 16, 2020, at approximately 2:30 p.m., members of the Victoria Police Department attended a multi-unit residential building in the 3000-block of Douglas Street for a report that a man had been assaulted with a weapon. The file at the time was an aggravated assault investigation, as the victim was still in hospital with […]
The campaign features a GoFundMe page, as well as a ‘Swiss Guides’ NFT collection. …Read the full story
The case is an example of the “excellent” work being done to protect Canadians from “transnational criminal threats,” Supt. …Read the full story
The aim is to consolidate those functions in one building to make the organization “disaster and seismically safe,” CREST general manager Gord Horth told Langford council on Monday. The project budget is $16 million, all but $1 million of which will be funded through the Municipal Finance Authority, which helps municipalities fund projects by pooling […]
Agriculture Minister Lana Popham visited a Comox Valley farm Wednesday to tour a rotational vegetable market garden operating on 1.5 acres that supplies an on-farm produce stand, the local farmers’ market and local restaurants. “As a new farmer starting a business, I didn’t have access to capital for purchasing land and I was lucky to […]
The Yukon provincial flag flies on a flag pole in Ottawa, Monday July 6, 2020. …Read the full story
