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Hand-drawn panorama of Victoria's Inner Harbour — lighthouse and cherry blossom on the left, a ferry on the water, Parliament and the park on the right.
Issue 1,258 · Monday, June 29, 2026PrivacyTermsEthics© Capital Daily Media Ltd. Victoria, BC
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A government agency was supposed to protect her finances. Instead, she was left ruined

A mentally ill woman's finances were put in the care of the Public Guardian and Trustee of BC. She's worse off because of it

Tori Marlan·Tuesday, November 9, 2021·24 min

🏛️News

Danbrook One structural engineer 'not qualified' for such a building: investigative committee

‘McClure made a critical error in judgment in believing that he had the requisite skill and knowledge to design Danbrook One,’ the people investigating the failed building said in an interim report

Zoë Ducklow·Monday, November 8, 2021·4 min

🏛️Features

Goodbye, Mrs. Gomez

The namesake of Felicita’s Pub passed away in October. She is fondly remembered by students

Michael John Lo·Saturday, November 6, 2021·7 min

🏛️News

Victoria couple completes journey to sample all 43 Greater Victoria food trucks

The journey took them 16 months and they spent an estimated $1,200

Emily Fagan·Thursday, November 4, 2021·4 min

🏛️Explainer

Where have the mushrooms gone?

It's a bad year for certain kinds of popular mushrooms on Vancouver Island. We went mushroom hunting with two local experts to find out what's happening

Zoë Ducklow·Monday, November 1, 2021·5 min

🏛️Politics

INVESTIGATION: RCMP misled public about pepper spray incident at Fairy Creek

The RCMP said they had to pepper spray a crowd to evacuate an injured officer. An exhaustive review of the available evidence shows that was not true

Jimmy Thomson, Ethan Cox & Brishti Basu·Sunday, October 31, 2021·19 min

🏛️News

'Who cares' about access to information? Murray Rankin used to

The MLA and cabinet minister has a long history of fighting for access to information. Now it's being tainted by his own government

Tori Marlan & Jimmy Thomson·Friday, October 29, 2021·5 min

🏛️News

Chef on the Run’s homestyle English cuisine remains a Sidney staple after 25 years

More and more people relied on the business as an essential service during the pandemic

Brishti Basu·Friday, October 29, 2021·7 min

🏛️News

Gnomes, sphinx, and dinos, oh my! Galey Farms opens up about their 22 years of Halloween festivities

‘This wasn’t built in a day,’ says owner Robert Galey

Emily Fagan·Thursday, October 28, 2021·4 min

🏛️News

Powering Vancouver Island is getting harder with climate change

Cables from the mainland were damaged by the heat this summer and thousands went without power during this week’s storm. How can the Island keep the lights on?

Tim Ford·Tuesday, October 26, 2021·7 min

🏛️News

How 'attainable' is Langford's Attainable Home Ownership plan?

A new plan is touted as a solution to help more people afford home ownership. A closer look at the details reveals major gaps and drawbacks

Zoë Ducklow·Monday, October 25, 2021·4 min

🏛️Features

Gregor Craigie wants you to get ready for the Big One

In his new book, On Borrowed Time: North America's Next Big Quake, CBC radio hosts Craigie walks us through what we need to do to prepare individually and as a society

Megan Clark·Sunday, October 24, 2021·7 min

🏛️News

Syrian refugee’s catering business takes off through Facebook

Safaa Naeman’s Syriana Catering is struggling to keep up with demand

Brishti Basu·Friday, October 22, 2021·4 min

🏛️News

With one year to go, Lisa Helps still has plans for Victoria

The mayor is not running again next October. We sat down with her to discuss her time in office so far, what the next election holds, and what comes after

Emily Fagan·Friday, October 22, 2021·13 min

🏛️Features

More than 50 years in the making, SENĆOŦEN language revitalization efforts have touched generations

The Elliott family’s local legacy in teaching and transforming the SENĆOŦEN language continues to impact hundreds of new language learners

Emily Fagan·Thursday, October 21, 2021·4 min

🏛️News

The Victoria airport bus is not coming

Why we’re kidding ourselves when we wish for affordable airport transportation

Jimmy Thomson·Tuesday, October 19, 2021·6 min

🏛️Business

He wanted to build a ski yurt. Others wanted to log. Ecological concerns killed only one of the proposals

There’s a battle in the backwoods of BC between adventure tourism and raw resource extraction, and according to some, tourism is losing in a big way.

Andrew Findlay·Monday, October 18, 2021·8 min

🏛️Explainer

Is Victoria overpriced?

The CMHC says it isn’t—but we have no reason to believe them

Leo Spalteholz·Sunday, October 17, 2021·4 min

🏛️News

Hunger for improv: New comedy collective launches classes and ‘Late Night’ style show in Victoria

The first round of classes has already sold out

Brishti Basu·Friday, October 15, 2021·6 min

🏛️News

Two partners in community health to launch new wellness centre

The Victoria Community Health Co-op has long struggled with a lack of dedicated space. That’s about to change

Emily Fagan·Thursday, October 14, 2021·4 min

🏛️News

'I hate to ask': How a fraudster manipulated a Colwood single mother out of tens of thousands of dollars

Christine Hale says she lost as much as $100,000 to a man who told her he loved her while inventing lawyer fees and death threats

Zoë Ducklow·Wednesday, October 13, 2021·13 min

🏛️Features

Inside the COVID isolation units for unhoused patients in Victoria

Cubicles, no showers, and fluorescent lights all day long

Jolene Rudisuela·Friday, October 8, 2021·7 min

🏛️Features

One man’s trash: Diverters are working to reduce Victoria’s waste

Through their Coffee Cup Revolution campaign, Diverters hope to raise awareness of single-use cup recycling

Emily Fagan·Thursday, October 7, 2021·5 min

🏛️Opinion

OPINION: The surprisingly good news for Victoria about the climate emergency

Huge changes are needed, urgently. The good news is they can improve our lives

Dave Thompson·Wednesday, October 6, 2021·5 min
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