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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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🏛️News

How local athletes are coping with the maddening limbo of the Olympic postponement

It’s a delicate dance to be at one’s peak in time for the games, and a delay can throw that into jeopardy

Ben Waterworth·Wednesday, November 18, 2020·4 min

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Where all these new COVID cases are coming from

Here is how to avoid the most likely situations for infection

Harley Gordon·Tuesday, November 17, 2020·6 min

🏛️News

Could passenger rail down the E&N solve Victoria's congestion woes?

By 2038, a drive from Mill Bay to Victoria is expected to take 2 hours and 24 minutes

Andrew Findlay·Friday, November 13, 2020·8 min

🏛️News

Victoria’s lost IKEA

For a brief, shining moment in the 1980s, Vancouver Islanders didn’t need to organize elaborate excursions to the mainland to get Swedish flat-packed furniture

Omar Washington·Thursday, November 12, 2020·5 min

🏛️News

The devastating effect Victoria's hotel-shelters have had on surrounding businesses

“The main problem is that they [BC Housing] did not ask anyone before they bought these hotels,” furniture retailer Gordy Dodd told Capital Daily

Anna J. James·Wednesday, November 11, 2020·4 min

🏛️News

How a Failed Victoria Real Estate Agent Won the Great War

For Remembrance Day, we remember how an unassuming Victorian found himself in command of one of the world’s deadliest armies

Tristin Hopper·Tuesday, November 10, 2020·8 min

🏛️News

“There are hundreds of bodies lying about unburied": Vivid accounts of war from Vancouver Islanders

In this special Remembrance Day feature, excerpts of diaries, letters and oral histories from both world wars, some published here for the first time

Capital Daily Staff·Tuesday, November 10, 2020·9 min

🏛️News

What happened the last time "The Big One" hit the West Coast

Preserved by Indigenous oral history, and evidenced by signs of epic violence still visible on the landscape, this is the story of the last time seismic cataclysm came to the lands that are now British Columbia

Daren Zomerman·Saturday, November 7, 2020·8 min

🏛️News

How COVID-19 backlogs are keeping a Saanich family from going to school

With Canada experiencing massive backlogs in immigration, newly arrived families across the province could be unable to obtain the documents needed to enrol their kids in school

Tori Marlan·Friday, November 6, 2020·5 min

🏛️News

Capital Daily visited the Fairy Creek encampment. Here’s what we found.

For two months, a 24-hour blockade has been attempting to stop planned logging of a stand of old-growth near Port Renfrew

Harley Gordon·Thursday, November 5, 2020·7 min

🏛️News

GRAPHS: Is Victoria over-policed? Judge for yourself.

Victoria is one of the most heavily policed cities in Canada. It's also one of the most crime-heavy.

Snejana Vorona·Wednesday, November 4, 2020·5 min

🏛️News

The secret blacklist intended to keep Victoria sex workers safe

As many as 1,000 adults offer sexual services in the BC capital

Anna J. James·Tuesday, November 3, 2020·6 min

🏛️News

The data is in! Our comprehensive breakdown of the 2020 election results

Ad spending, voter turnout and how this would have played out if the Greens' had gotten their proportional representation wishes

Tristan Pratt & Snejana Vorona·Saturday, October 31, 2020·4 min

🏛️News

The grisly murder that horrified turn-of-the-century Victoria

The killing, committed in complete darkness on the Vic West side of the Johnson Street Bridge, drew comparisons to the work of Jack the Ripper

Capital Daily Staff·Thursday, October 29, 2020·10 min

🏛️News

How deadly is COVID-19? Here’s what the numbers say.

If you’re a toddler, it’s safer than the flu. If you’re a senior, it’s deadlier than the Spanish Flu.

Tristin Hopper·Wednesday, October 28, 2020·4 min

🏛️News

“It’s a slum”: Residents at Victoria's hotel-shelters describe hotbeds of crime, disorder

One resident of the Howard Johnson tells Capital Daily “it's getting taken over by people selling dope”

Anna J. James·Monday, October 26, 2020·4 min

🏛️News

GRAPHIC: How Vancouver Island voted

The NDP took both Andrew Weaver's former seat and the Island's last BC Liberal riding

Tristan Pratt·Saturday, October 24, 2020·2 min

🏛️News

The Vancouver Island doctor shortage, explained

Thousands of Islanders have virtually no prospect of finding a primary physician, but the solution may not be more doctors

Sol Dolor·Thursday, October 22, 2020·5 min

🏛️Politics

What is the government’s end game on tent cities?

Everybody wants the tents gone, but few have produced plans to actually get people clean and off the street

Capital Daily Staff·Wednesday, October 21, 2020·5 min

🏛️News

Is BC cutting down all its old-growth forest?

Cutting down primordial forests is still a key part of BC's forestry sector, but for how much longer is anybody's guess

Harley Gordon·Tuesday, October 20, 2020·7 min

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Is BC giving $1 billion a year to fossil fuel companies?

Claims that the NDP has dramatically increased fossil fuel subsidies has become a key plank of the Greens’ 2020 campaign

Ian King·Monday, October 19, 2020·5 min

🏛️News

Where the parties stand on key Vancouver Island issues

We asked you to name the election issues that mattered most. Here’s what we found.

Omar Washington·Saturday, October 17, 2020·11 min

🏛️News

With COVID-19 benefits ending, eviction looms for Victoria’s jobless

As back rent now comes due, the pandemic has outlived the province’s protections.

Tori Marlan·Friday, October 16, 2020·6 min

🏛️News

“Everything will be okay as long as I don’t turn myself into a victim": New series checking in on Victoria's homeless

For the next year, Capital Daily will be regularly profiling the same four people experiencing homelessness or on the brink of it

Anna J. James·Thursday, October 15, 2020·6 min
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