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Why Vancouver Island will never get a bridge to the Mainland
Giving 500,000 people a more convenient ride to Vancouver would be the single most daunting engineering project in Canadian history
Tristin Hopper·Thursday, December 5, 2019·9 min
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Scandal-Plagued Prince Andrew Still Retains Two Vancouver Island Ceremonial Titles
Non-profits around the world are rejecting the Duke of York's patronage amid renewed scrutiny over Andrew's ties to convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein
Tristin Hopper·Sunday, November 24, 2019·3 min
Politics
Why Canada Doesn't Allow Private Healthcare
As a B.C. lawsuit to legalize private healthcare wraps up this week, we review how it got this way
Tristin Hopper·Wednesday, November 20, 2019·6 min
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The Most Surreal Pictures in the Victorian World
Hannah Maynard wasn't just one of the only female photographers in the British Empire. She did things with film that European masters could only dream of.
Tristin Hopper·Thursday, November 14, 2019·5 min
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Carbon Dioxide into Stone: UVic’s Revolutionary Plan to Reverse Climate Change
B.C.-led team to pioneer technology to suck greenhouse gases from the air and entomb them deep under the ocean
Tristin Hopper·Monday, November 4, 2019·4 min
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Canada’s Jack the Ripper
Victoria in 1899 was no stranger to killing, but this was a new and horrifying kind of murder
Tristin Hopper·Wednesday, October 30, 2019·10 min
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The Bizarre Tale of How John A. Macdonald Got Elected Victoria MP
As Canada goes to the polls today, The Capital revisits what still stands as the weirdest federal election result Victoria has ever delivered
Tristin Hopper·Thursday, October 24, 2019·6 min
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The Plan to Get Greta Thunberg to Victoria without Fossil Fuels
It’s a Jacob’s Ladder of sail, rowboats, bicycles and electric cars, but the offer stands
Tristin Hopper·Wednesday, October 23, 2019·5 min
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The Cowichan Nation’s Lost Salish Sea Empire
A coalition of Vancouver Island First Nations are in court to prove that they were once the undisputed rulers of much more than the Cowichan Valley
Tristin Hopper·Monday, October 14, 2019·6 min
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The Names of All 202 Children Known to Have Died in Vancouver Island Residential Schools
Right up to the 1980s, Islanders lived alongside institutions that subjected Indigenous children to beatings, starvation, sexual abuse and even human experimentation
Tristin Hopper·Tuesday, October 1, 2019·7 min
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Why don’t Canadians care when their politicians sleep around?
New research out of UVic finds that as long as politicians aren’t misspending their money, voters don’t seem to mind
Tristin Hopper·Wednesday, September 18, 2019·5 min
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The Most Doomed City in Canada
What the Big One will do to Victoria
Tristin Hopper·Saturday, September 14, 2019·20 min
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Here’s How Much Victoria’s Cruise Ships Are Polluting
Analysis by The Capital found that 31 ships emitted a cumulative 11,406 tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2019
Tristin Hopper·Saturday, September 7, 2019·3 min