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Our Community: Camosun hosts first post-COVID open house; lunch sessions for seniors

Our Community: Camosun hosts first post-COVID open house; lunch sessions for seniors

Prospective students can talk with faculty, students and alumni.
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Trevor Hancock: Loss of nature has huge impact, but doesn't get attention it deserves

Trevor Hancock: Loss of nature has huge impact, but doesn't get attention it deserves

Aside from the food we eat, water we drink and plant materials we use for fuel, building materials and medicines, other vital ecosystem services include carbon storage, oxygen generation and pollination
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Pushback: How a Victoria doctor saved his city from 1918 flu despite overwhelming pressure

Pushback: How a Victoria doctor saved his city from 1918 flu despite overwhelming pressure

Dr. Arthur G. Price faced pressure from both the religious and business communities to reverse his ban on public gathering, but his measures resulted in Victoria having less than half the mortality rate of Vancouver
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David Sovka: Working in the office is for extroverts who can ignore the Call of Duty

David Sovka: Working in the office is for extroverts who can ignore the Call of Duty

All the extroverts go into work every day where they can socialize and create in-person support networks. We introverts will stay at home, playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare with the cats
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California connection: Victoria's Chinatown a refuge for those fleeing racism in San Francisco

California connection: Victoria's Chinatown a refuge for those fleeing racism in San Francisco

Starting in 1858, Chinese merchants in San Francisco began to acquire lots in what would eventually become Victoria’s Chinatown, amid growing anti-Chinese sentiment in the U.S.
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Our Community: Victorians head to bridge championships; setting record straight on bats

Our Community: Victorians head to bridge championships; setting record straight on bats

Five Islanders are heading to the World Bridge Championships in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which bring together more than 1,000 duplicate bridge players from around the globe.
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Trevor Hancock: Later is too late to restore nature

Trevor Hancock: Later is too late to restore nature

The Worldwide Fund for Nature says what happens in the next five years will “determine the future of life on Earth.”
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Space invaders: These plants are bad news for your garden — and for the environment

Space invaders: These plants are bad news for your garden — and for the environment

There are many invasive plant species on Vancouver Island, but a few stand out as the worst culprits when it comes to affecting local plants and habitats.
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Our Community: Sooke mural celebrates Indigenous culture; a Halloween waterway cleanup

Our Community: Sooke mural celebrates Indigenous culture; a Halloween waterway cleanup

A new mural inspired by T’Sou-ke Nation culture has been unveiled at Sooke’s “Heritage Row,” replacing a mural installed in the 1990s depicting the area’s logging history.
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David Sovka: Gravity, maple syrup and other things I'm thankful for

David Sovka: Gravity, maple syrup and other things I'm thankful for

The thankfulness sharing tradition requires some quick thinking when the good stuff — family, health, avoiding jail time after that little incident at Costco — is already taken
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