Author

Shannon Waters

Shannon began her reporting career in northern BC, covering communities from Smithers to Williams Lake and leading award-winning coverage of the 2017 wildfires. Her professional passions are politics, policy and people and the ways they intersect and influence each other. As the founding reporter at BC Today, she spent years covering the BC legislature and provincial political scene in unique depth. Shannon has a knack for turning the nuts and bolts of government policy into engaging reporting. She prides herself on her ability to take information that makes a lot of people’s eyes glaze over and find the story within – what it means, how it matters and why you should care. When she’s not hustling for stories, you can find her cultivating her green thumb or biking to and from the beach, where she’s equally likely to be buried in a book or enjoying the ocean.

Policing

Esquimalt wants out of shared policing agreement with Victoria

By Shannon Waters
Aug 16, 2022

Councillors vote unanimously not to renew shared policing agreement but it’s the province that will have final say on the issue.

City Hall

More than Missing Middle needed to address housing affordability in Victoria

By Shannon Waters
Aug 13, 2022

But that’s not a reason not to proceed with the policy, which one expert says will ‘make things less bad in the long run’