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Alcohol and tobacco consumption is higher on the Island than rest of BC

Robyn Bell
December 19, 2024

The rate of Island hospitalizations for alcohol use is twice the national average.

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Good news

Victoria's Michael Saunders joins baseball elite with name etched on Wall of Excellence

Mark Brennae
January 26, 2024

Saunders couldn’t have known at age 11 when accompanying his Gordon Head Little League teammates to Seattle to see his first MLB game that one day he would play there.

Homelessness

Jubilee patients left at bus stop are caught up in a systems failure

Overlapping mental-health, addiction and housing crises combine to create unacceptable outcomes

Drugs

470 Islanders died from toxic drugs in 2023

Robyn Bell
January 24, 2024

Last year marked the highest toxic drug death rate in BC since recording began

Infrastructure

New indoor pickleball ‘hub’ to open in March

Mark Brennae
January 23, 2024

Westshore facility arrives as local councils try to serve both the sport's growing popularity and neighbours' concerns about space and noise

Film

"She won for all of us": Lily Gladstone's historic win inspires Indigenous actors and students on the Island

Blackfeet actress's performance in Killers of the Flower Moon, and her Golden Globe for it, sends a message to Nuu-chah-nulh performers and youth

Ocean

DFO’s new monitoring program proves there’s no free lunch for our resident orcas

Mark Brennae
January 19, 2024

“It’s appalling that we’re wasting this much salmon,” Sydney Dixon, a marine specialist at Pacific Wild, tells Capital Daily.

Business

The decline of Black Press: How an Ohio newspaper sank a BC publishing empire

This is how a quest to turn a small-town newspaper empire into a continental behemoth backfired.

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