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MusicFest will not take place in 2025 but organizers will work on developing a more sustainable model, according to a statement from the Comox Valley Folk Society board.

A total of 68,639 units began construction, the second strongest figure since 1990. However, the rate of housing starts per capita meant activity was around the historical average and not enough "to reduce the existing supply gap and improve affordability for 91Ô­´´s."

Despite making up more than 4.5 per cent of Canada’s population, less than one per cent of the country’s physicians identify as Indigenous, according to the 91Ô­´´ Medical Association.

Ravenscroft, which opens Thursday at Victoria's Langham Court Theatre, combines slapstick and a few red herrings, among other staples of the murder-mystery genre.

Arts writer Mike Devlin picks his favourite upcoming events, including Cory Weeds Quartet on Sunday at Hermann’s Jazz Club.

Upcoming events: National Forest Week at Butler Park in Sooke on Saturday ; South Island Powwow at Royal Athletic Park on Monday.

Booze consumption causes many people to have loose lips

Ailment can cause leg swelling, even in people who don’t have chronic lower extremity venous disease

GRAND FORKS, B.C. — Wildfire officials say an evacuation order for the B.C. southern Interior town of Grand Forks, has been downgraded to an alert, even as an out-of-control wildfire in Washington state surges north and threatens to cross the border.

The adult Pachyrhinosaurus is the second plant-eating dinosaur to be unearthed from a dense bonebed belonging to a herd that died together on the edge of a valley that now sits 450 kilometres northwest of Edmonton.