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Our Community: Everyone pitches in for Saanich mural, trio honoured for naloxone training project

Our Community: Everyone pitches in for Saanich mural, trio honoured for naloxone training project

Three Victoria youths have been recognized by Island Health for their work training students and others to administer naloxone to prevent toxic-drug overdose deaths.
Monique Keiran: 'Worthy' books didn't make summer reading cut, but fall is coming

Monique Keiran: 'Worthy' books didn't make summer reading cut, but fall is coming

This season has been the summer of the mystery, which travel well to the backyard, the beach, the picnic table and the sofa and don’t come with the built-in serving of guilt or sense of shameless frivolity attached to some other genres.
Charla Huber: Ask a kid to pretend their hand is a phone — you might be surprised

Charla Huber: Ask a kid to pretend their hand is a phone — you might be surprised

Why do adults get upset that kids no longer use a fist with an extended pinky and thumb to indicate talking on a phone?
Geoff Johnson: 'Quiet quitting' and the post-COVID world of work

Geoff Johnson: 'Quiet quitting' and the post-COVID world of work

The goal of ‘quiet quitting’ — doing exactly what the job requires, no more and no less — is to draw clearer boundaries between work and life in a society that fetishizes endless hustle.
Trevor Hancock: Don't blame Victoria for other governments' failures

Trevor Hancock: Don't blame Victoria for other governments' failures

Homelessness, mental health and addictions issues, park camping and crime and violence are not problems that were created by the City of Victoria, and it’s unfair to expect the city to fix them.
Our Community: Art show fundraiser at Abkhazi Garden, Comox Valley women walking to Rome

Our Community: Art show fundraiser at Abkhazi Garden, Comox Valley women walking to Rome

Paintings and sketches inspired by the Abkhazi Garden have been created by 15 local artists, with proceeds to be divided between the artists and The Land Conservancy — which purchased the Gonzales-area site in 2000 to keep it from being developed.
Wolf project helps reduce interactions with humans

Wolf project helps reduce interactions with humans

Entering a wolf’s territory and seeing one of the animals is a privilege, says project co-ordinator
'Dazzling' dioramas a flashback to the '60s, Beatlemania and psychedelia

'Dazzling' dioramas a flashback to the '60s, Beatlemania and psychedelia

Dioramas feature dozens of tiny items clipped out of old magazines or handmade by an unknown artist, and originally came from the estate of a Victoria art collector.
Geoff Johnson: How to steer kids through the social-media labyrinth

Geoff Johnson: How to steer kids through the social-media labyrinth

Adult vigilance is key when kids are navigating the complex world of social media
Trevor Hancock: Decline and collapse unpalatable, but not implausible

Trevor Hancock: Decline and collapse unpalatable, but not implausible

While we don’t like to contemplate catastrophe, if we don’t, we can’t hope to avoid it.