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Canada's Largest Kidnapping Investigation Seeks Fresh Tips

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 05.24.2013 | Canada British Columbia

VANCOUVER - Today marks the 22nd anniversary of the disappearance of four-year-old Michael Dunahee, but police say they haven't stopped looking.Dunahe...

Victoria Fire Victims Saved Just In Time

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 05.14.2013 | Canada British Columbia

VIEW ROYAL, B.C. - A nine-year-old Vancouver Island girl has been severely injured in an early morning house fire in the Victoria-area community of Vi...

B.C. Leper Colony's Little Known History

Steffani Cameron | Posted 05.07.2013 | Canada British Columbia
Steffani Cameron

These days, one landing on D'Arcy Island is likely to be a kayaker enjoying its remote beauty. But 122 years ago, that haven must have been desperately lonely, isolating, and even terrifying for those immigrant lepers just shuttled off and left to quietly live a life of struggle, or quietly die as they please.

Victoria Homeless Deaths Spike

CBC | Posted 04.29.2013 | Canada British Columbia

An anti-poverty group in Victoria wants the regional coroner to hold an inquest into 30 deaths among the city's street population over the past four m...

Victoria House Fire Victims Named

CBC | Posted 04.20.2013 | Canada British Columbia

UPDATE: The third victim has been identified as Georgia Paige Klap, 22, of Victoria, by the B.C. Coroners Service. Friends and family are mourning...

Pocket Dial Scream Call Alerts 911

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.09.2013 | Canada British Columbia

VICTORIA - When a woman in Victoria got a call from her daughter's cellphone and heard terrified screams, she immediately dialled 911.It turned out th...

Why Can't Victoria Police Be More Like Ottawa's Force?

Vincent Gogolek | Posted 03.27.2013 | Canada British Columbia
Vincent Gogolek

Apparently the illegal scanning of licence plates by Victoria police will continue until fixes are implemented. Unlike their counterparts in Saanich and Ottawa, Victoria police have no intention of switching off the cameras during privacy compliance upgrades.

HEINOUS: Driver Hits Wheelchair User, Then Flees

The Huffington Post B.C. | Posted 03.26.2013 | Canada British Columbia

Victoria police are looking for a driver who hit a quadriplegic man at a marked crosswalk, then drove away without offering any help. The victim wa...

Alberta Arrest In Victoria Slaying

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 02.22.2013 | Canada British Columbia

VICTORIA - Police on Vancouver Island have arrested a man out of province wanted for a murder in summer of last year.Victoria Police say Joshua Tyler ...

Green Party's Andrew Weaver Case Reveals New Lexicon of B.C. Politics

Mike Klassen | Posted 02.17.2013 | Canada British Columbia
Mike Klassen

If B.C. politics has really changed as some suggest, then Andrew Weaver of the Green Party should have been hailed for his integrity. Instead, he was shrugged off as a newbie. So what are we looking for from the women and men we elect to public office in B.C.? Is it the kind of credentials we need to face the great economic, environmental and social challenges of the 21st century, or is it merely a thick skin?

Abused Shih Tzu Owner Fined

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 02.13.2013 | Canada British Columbia

VICTORIA - A Victoria man accused of abusing a dog has been fined after pleading guilty to failing to provide necessities to an animal.A provincial co...

Do You Recognize These People?

The Huffington Post B.C. | Posted 12.04.2012 | Canada British Columbia

Victoria police hope the public can help them reunite stolen photos found on memory cards recovered by investigators. Police released two photos on...

LOOK: Shipping Containers As Homes

The Huffington Post B.C. | Zi-Ann Lum | Posted 02.28.2013 | Canada British Columbia

We all must have been distracted by our made-in-China toys when the shipping container they arrived in became hot sustainable real estate themselves. ...

Missing Child's Mom Still Struggles

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 01.30.2013 | Canada British Columbia

VICTORIA - It's been nearly 22 years since four-year-old Michael Dunahee vanished within moments from a Victoria school yard, and his mother says she ...

Who Ever Said Canadian Politics Were Dull?

Mark Crowley | Posted 01.28.2013 | Canada Politics
Mark Crowley

What an exciting time to be a political addict in Canada. Who says Canadian politics is boring? People who aren't paying attention, that's who. First, the Mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford, was removed from office. Second, we find out that Mark Carney got headhunted to the U.K. And elections, you know, the best sport ever? There were three! And they weren't boring, at all.

HOW Much For B.C. Family Day Party Planner?

The Huffington Post B.C. | Posted 11.08.2012 | Canada British Columbia

The B.C. government is willing to spend up to $1.5 million on a “party planner” for B.C.’s first Family Day next spring, says the B.C. NDP. T...

B.C. MLAs Break Word On Expenses, Disrepect Taxpayers

Jordan Bateman | Posted 12.23.2012 | Canada British Columbia
Jordan Bateman

Last week, the Legislative Assembly Management Committee, chaired by Barisoff and made up of both Liberal and NDP MLAs, agreed to post quarterly expense reports online -- but continue to withhold actual receipts, ensuring the public is kept in the dark on where public money is actually going. For two parties who are at each other's throats on nearly every issue facing this province, it is astounding that the Liberals and NDP continue to walk in lockstep when it comes to hiding these receipts.

Drunk Scooter Driver Busted

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 12.12.2012 | Canada British Columbia

VICTORIA - A Victoria man has learned the hard way that drinking and driving will land you in jail — even if you're driving a scooter.Police in Vict...

B.C.'s Best Restaurants

The Huffington Post B.C. | Zi-Ann Lum | Posted 03.28.2013 | Canada British Columbia

Why do the best restaurants always seem to require maxing out your credit card? Macleans has just released a list of the 50 best restaurants in Canada...

I Want The 'Innocent' Spared: B.C. Premier

CP | Dirk Meissner, The Canadian Press | Posted 11.25.2012 | Canada British Columbia

VICTORIA - Premier Christy Clark says she wants to ensure innocent people involved in the inappropriate incident that led to the departure of her chie...

Clark's 'Sick Culture' Comments More Telling Than They Appear

Kevin Elliott | Posted 11.19.2012 | Canada British Columbia
Kevin Elliott

B.C. Premier Christy Clark has yet again found herself in a sticky situation with the recent publication of an interview in which she expressed explicit disdain for the "sick culture" of Victoria, the provincial capital. I can't help but wonder though if all of the backlash to Clark's admittedly foolish comments are missing the mark. Which one of us, especially the politicians and political commentators in the bunch, can truly look in the mirror and say that the state of government in our society today is not a little bit perverted?

Christy Clark Damage Control

CBC | Posted 11.19.2012 | Canada British Columbia

B.C. Premier Christy Clark is in damage-control mode after quotes surfaced in Victoria newspapers in which she refers to the provincial capital as hav...

Free Baby?

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 11.10.2012 | Canada British Columbia

VICTORIA - Police in Victoria are investigating an advertisement posted on an buy-and-sell Internet website where a baby was offered for "free to a go...

'Severed Feet' Investigation Grows

CP | Dirk Meissner, The Canadian Press | Posted 11.06.2012 | Canada British Columbia

VICTORIA - A Victoria Police investigation into a human-remains hoax is growing after the discovery of two more child-sized shoes on the same beach wh...

UVic Serves Strike Notice

CBC | Posted 11.02.2012 | Canada British Columbia

Some 1500 support workers at the University of Victoria may go on strike next week, just as students return to school. Canadian Union of ...