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A raucous hearing—and generational divide—as Victoria City Council listens on Missing Middle initiative
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Bylaw fines Victoria cat $150 for trespassing
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Metchosin councillor calls RCMP on mayor during closed-door meeting
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Four new Island municipalities subject to speculation tax
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Victoria will have its lowest tides in a generation this week
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Here's everything we know about the Saanich shootout so far—and what we're still waiting to learn
Some answers have trickled out over the past week. Many have not. Emileigh Pearson says even though the police cars have left and few signs of the incident remain, she still feels like things haven’t gone back to normal—bullets flying in front of her…
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Telus tower has been down for weeks—and one resident’s 9-1-1 calls for a suspected heart attack were dropped Grant Hanes was in transit in the immediate aftermath of the bank robbery in Saanich last Tuesday afternoon, on his phone as the bus…
One of two twin suspects killed in bank robbery was rejected from Canadian Armed Forces
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