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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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Trevor Hancock: We need a government that cares about the well-being of the planet

Trevor Hancock: We need a government that cares about the well-being of the planet

Somehow we have to get the next provincial government to take a long-term and less-partisan view, for the good of the whole province and for future generations.
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B.C. drone company building 'Google Streetview in the sky'

B.C. drone company building 'Google Streetview in the sky'

Vancouver-based company claims to have built the largest drone imaging network on Earth.
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Our Community: Chinatown museum to be permanent; Quadra centre marks 50th

Our Community: Chinatown museum to be permanent; Quadra centre marks 50th

The main emphasis of the Fan Tan Alley museum will be on Chinese people who came to Canada through Victoria
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Monique Keiran: Our salmon Ninja Warriors aren't faring well

Monique Keiran: Our salmon Ninja Warriors aren't faring well

The latest State of Salmon report by the non-profit Pacific Salmon Foundation shows declines in Pacific salmon abundance are widespread across both B.C. and the Yukon
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Trevor Hancock: Environmental costs of growing food aren’t reflected in the price we pay

Trevor Hancock: Environmental costs of growing food aren’t reflected in the price we pay

A 2021 paper prepared for the UN Food Systems Summit estimated that the true cost of food, globally, should be about three times what it is
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Our Community: Colquitz Park restoration, cleaning up Clayoquot Sound

Our Community: Colquitz Park restoration, cleaning up Clayoquot Sound

Learn more about plans for the Colquitz Park shoreline at an open house and the expansion of the marine-debris drop zone program for Clayoquot Sound.
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Saving the Mill Farm: The story of how Salt Spring Island Conservancy got its start

Saving the Mill Farm: The story of how Salt Spring Island Conservancy got its start

An excerpt from a new book on local nature conservancies digs into the early days of the Salt Spring group, and how a surprising turn in court helped it save a 160-acre farm
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David Sovka: Let's talk West Nile Virus. Brought to you by: mosquitoes

David Sovka: Let's talk West Nile Virus. Brought to you by: mosquitoes

The B.C. Centre for Disease Control offers this solid advice to people worried about West Nile Virus: “You can lower your risk of infection by avoiding mosquito bites.”
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