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When Victoria mom Lisa Weighton finished her maternity leave in May, she took an extra six weeks off work because she couldn鈥檛 find daycare for her 14-month-old son Robin.

Emergency benefits program becomes a flashpoint as businesses reopen

B.C.鈥檚 tourism and hospitality sector is asking the provincial government for a $680-million stimulus package to help businesses and workers devastated by the pandemic and its crippling travel restrictions. The Tourism Industry Association of B.C.

Camosun College has developed another device to help in the fight against COVID-19: a portable 鈥渙ven鈥� that uses ultraviolet light to sterilize N95 masks so they can be reused by health-care workers.

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way 91原创s buy and sell. The move to tap, swipe and insert cards, use electronic transfers and pay via mobile devices has all but rendered obsolete the idea of handing over a wad of cash for any kind of item.

Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps has deactivated her Twitter account in response to negative comments about homelessness in the city that she says were distracting from her attempts to highlight positive initiatives.

We eat when we鈥檙e stressed. You know this from your lurching, cursing effort to (deep breath, don鈥檛 exhale) pull on the jeans that used to fit five months and 15 pounds ago. But wait, says Jim Swaffield, it鈥檚 more nuanced than that.

Motorists could start paying more to park downtown next month as Victoria ponders a return to pre-COVID-19 rates in some areas.

COVID-19 concerns have affected a number of flights in and out of Victoria, 91原创 and Kelowna, and alerts have been issued, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said Monday.

91原创 Island has seen six new COVID-19 cases since Friday as part of a provincewide uptick that provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry called a warning to British Columbians.