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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 1,259 · Tuesday, June 30, 2026PrivacyTermsEthics© Capital Daily Media Ltd. Victoria, BC
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🏛️Politics

Election 2021: Taking on housing

In one of Canada's hottest housing markets, how the major parties are going to offer a leg up

Arrthy Thayaparan·Tuesday, August 31, 2021·7 min

🏛️Politics

Election 2021: Meet your Cowichan-Malahat-Langford candidates

Candidates spoke to Capital Daily about their priorities, from housing to the opioid crisis—and we asked them all for their climate solutions

Capital Daily Staff·Monday, August 30, 2021·11 min

🏛️Features

Isolated in Victoria: forging friendships in a city renowned for its chilliness

Researchers say there's little attention on adult friendships, but there are some strategies to find new friends—even here

Tim Ford·Saturday, August 28, 2021·6 min

🏛️News

Mixed mandates: businesses and education workers in Victoria struggle with new COVID-19 safety measures

From the restaurateurs who will have to check guests' vaccination status to the professors who won't be allowed to, businesses react to the new rules

Brishti Basu·Wednesday, August 25, 2021·9 min

🏛️Politics

Election 2021: Meet your Victoria candidates

Candidates spoke to Capital Daily about their priorities, from transportation to climate—and we asked them all for their housing solutions

Jimmy Thomson·Tuesday, August 24, 2021·10 min

🏛️Business

Program offering free tech certification training for underprivileged youth launches in Victoria

Booming tech sector draws NPower Canada to the West Coast

Brishti Basu·Monday, August 23, 2021·6 min

🏛️Features

Taking space: how a trans comedian is owning their narrative with jokes

Host of Vicious Poodle's Queer Comedy Night Zane Oak tells honest, sometimes uncomfortable, accounts of being trans in a binary world

Ryan Hook·Friday, August 20, 2021·6 min

🏛️News

Fair hair: Community Salon’s ‘hair bank’ provides barrier-free haircuts to Victoria locals

Salon owner donates cuts without questions, stigma, or cost

Emily Fagan·Thursday, August 19, 2021·4 min

🏛️News

Victoria creates pilot project to send crisis teams in place of police to some mental health calls

The Oregon model it's based on has shown more than 30 years of success

Emily Fagan·Wednesday, August 18, 2021·6 min

🏛️News

How Aaron Miller used his culinary background to launch a career with Flight Cannabis

Burned out in the high-stress culinary world, now he’s chilling out in the world of cannabis

Josh Kozelj·Monday, August 16, 2021·8 min

🏛️News

Unions representing UVic employees call for provincial mandatory mask, vaccine policies

Victoria businesses are mulling how to handle mandates of their own, though few have made decisions, according to chamber president

Brishti Basu·Friday, August 13, 2021·5 min

🏛️News

Family-run charity Fateh Care brings free access to food, medical care, and more to hundreds of Vancouver Island residents

The family sets aside income and time to feed neighbours—just as they were fed when they arrived in Calgary in the dead of winter

Emily Fagan·Thursday, August 12, 2021·6 min

🏛️News

Victoria rental housing market bracing for impact of post secondary students’ return

More than 20,000 students are returning to a housing market that's already extremely tight. How did we get here?

Brishti Basu·Wednesday, August 11, 2021·8 min

🏛️Features

When your team wins Olympic gold—but you’re not there

Olympic athletes train for years, some missing medals by milliseconds. Victoria rower Rebecca Zimmerman missed her shot at gold for another reason

Richard Dal Monte·Tuesday, August 10, 2021·5 min

🏛️Features

OPINION: CRD must push province to fund rapid bus instead of expanding highways

New climate action policy sets important precedent for other regions

Eric Doherty & Jane Welton·Tuesday, August 10, 2021·6 min

🏛️News

Victoria’s crime severity index went up. What does that mean?

The number reflects crime type, population size, and this year, possibly the effects of the pandemic

Arrthy Thayaparan·Saturday, August 7, 2021·5 min

🏛️News

New research strikes a balance between the Wuikinuxv Nation, salmon, and the grizzly bears

Scientists and the First Nation say grizzly bear diets could be largely protected if the human salmon catch were decreased by 10%

Arrthy Thayaparan·Friday, August 6, 2021·7 min

🏛️News

New UVic engineering expansion will be a place to learn—and a structure to learn from

The building will be a living lab, embedded with sensors and controls that invite students' experimentation

Capital Daily Staff·Thursday, August 5, 2021·3 min

🏛️News

The beginning of Vancouver Island’s fourth wave is here

Every new case on the Island has for weeks been the faster-spreading Delta variant. Here's what that means

Brishti Basu·Wednesday, August 4, 2021·7 min

🏛️News

Businesses opt to continue mask policies as province moves ahead in restart plan

Will Victoria customers and businesses still use masks in the fall?

Josh Kozelj·Tuesday, August 3, 2021·5 min

🏛️Events

UPCOMING EVENTS: Go behind-the-scenes with our investigative reporter Tori Marlan

In this one-of-a-kind event, you'll get an exclusive look into the making of our investigative report, The Man Who Stole a Hotel, and learn more about the people involved in this ongoing saga

Capital Daily Staff·Tuesday, August 3, 2021·2 min

🏛️News

Salt Spring Island's duelling crises

Housing is at a breaking point. But to understand why there’s nowhere to live, first we need to understand why it’s getting harder to get water

Jimmy Thomson·Monday, August 2, 2021·21 min

🏛️Business

Tech that goes beyond support

How a Victoria IT company gives back to Indigenous communities

Brishti Basu·Friday, July 30, 2021·6 min

🏛️News

Victoria sees its homegrown ice cream shops through pandemic deep-freeze

Here's the inside scoop on some of Victoria’s favourite locally owned ice cream eateries

Emily Fagan·Thursday, July 29, 2021·7 min
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