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Emily Fagan

Emily Fagan is a Victoria-based freelance journalist passionate about reporting on social issues and politics. You can find her work in Vice, the CBC, and the Tyee, or follow her on Twitter @thatemfagan.

Good news

They’re unrelated and 50 years apart, but these brothers are celebrating 17 years of a ‘life-changing’ relationship

By Emily Fagan
Mar 4, 2022

Through Big Brothers Big Sisters Victoria, the pair say they’ve found a second family

Good news

Victoria teen raising $10,000 for nonprofit free boutique for women

By Emily Fagan
Feb 25, 2022

The fundraiser passed its initial $5,000 goal within the first week

Food

‘A resistance’: Iyé Creative’s mutual-aid food network inspires resurgence of traditional gardening practices in local African diaspora

By Emily Fagan
Feb 18, 2022

More than 90 burlap sack gardens and 1,500 kg of food have been distributed through their programs

Environment

Oak Bay has 28,000 new residents: Bowker Creek’s chum salmon eggs

By Emily Fagan
Feb 4, 2022

Meet the people leading the Bowker Creek Salmon resurgence

Good news

It takes a village to build a village: prototype Conestoga hut created to model new option for safe sheltering in Victoria

By Emily Fagan
Jan 28, 2022

Community members look to ‘start a conversation’ about the need for more emergency shelters

Neighbourhoods

ElderDog Victoria helps seniors keep their canine companions

By Emily Fagan
Jan 21, 2022

The Victoria pawd, currently 100-strong, is looking to expand

Arts

Victoria author Wendy Proverbs's tween book captures the pain of distance in the Sixties Scoop

By Emily Fagan
Jan 14, 2022

Aggie and Mudgy brings an accessible, unconventional lens to local Indigenous author’s family history