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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

Happy Thanksgiving! We're thankful for these stunning photos from readers

Sunrises, deer, snails, scenes of domestic bliss and dogs – lots and lots of dogs

Capital Daily readers·Sunday, October 11, 2020·2 min

🏛️News

Capital Daily's interactive guide to Vancouver Island's 2020 candidates

Peruse the names and bios of 42 major party candidates across 14 ridings

Capital Daily Staff·Saturday, October 10, 2020·2 min

🏛️News

BC's lacklustre cannabis legalization, charted

Despite its disproportionately weed-smoking populace, BC has done a terrible job at getting them to buy the legal stuff

Snejana Vorona·Saturday, October 10, 2020·3 min

🏛️News

Brush up your Salish: Expand your vocabulary with these Coastal First Nations terms

Get closer to your Vancouver Island home by learning the terms literally shaped by the Salish Sea

Capital Daily Staff·Wednesday, October 7, 2020·6 min

🏛️News

“It’s only … in jail that he sees a doctor”: Parents of homeless Victorians speak

Even a dedicated support network cannot be enough to keep a severely mentally ill son off the streets

Anna J. James·Tuesday, October 6, 2020·5 min

🏛️News

EXCLUSIVE: Unsealed police documents reveal previously unknown details about the death of Lindsay Buziak

Obtained in a court action by Capital Daily, the documents allow the most comprehensive picture yet of Buziak’s last days

Zander Sherman·Friday, October 2, 2020·15 min

🏛️Health

How a new rapid COVID-19 test could change everything

The return of tourism, care home visits and even music festivals could now be on the horizon

Harley Gordon·Thursday, October 1, 2020·5 min

🏛️News

Inside Victoria’s newest tent city

With 112 tents and counting, park behind Crystal Pool becomes latest stop on merry-go-round of Victoria tent encampments

Anna J. James·Wednesday, September 30, 2020·3 min

🏛️News

“I called 75 times”: Severe backups at testing call centre hinder Island’s COVID-19 response

While rapid testing was key to BC’s early success in fighting COVID-19, this has now given way to some of the longest wait times in the country

Tori Marlan·Monday, September 28, 2020·5 min

🏛️News

COVID-19 cases are spiking again. Here’s why it's different this time.

The second wave of COVID-19 is shaping up to be way less deadly than the first

Harley Gordon·Sunday, September 27, 2020·6 min

🏛️News

The one thing that could save Tofino

The Big One will kill 1,850 if it hits Tofino at the height of summer. The only thing that can stop it is getting ignored.

Daren Zomerman·Friday, September 25, 2020·10 min

🏛️News

How to hold an election in the middle of a pandemic

For starters, you'll have to bring your own pencil

Capital Daily Staff·Wednesday, September 23, 2020·4 min

🏛️News

Visualizing BC's "hidden" COVID-19 victims

Beyond its confirmed COVID-19 fatalities, since lockdowns began BC has seen several hundred more deaths than would be typical

Snejana Vorona·Sunday, September 20, 2020·3 min

🏛️News

How a roadside zoo unleashed a lizard invasion on Victoria

Known as Rudy’s Pet Park, the 60s-era attraction was singularly responsible for the now-ubiquitous common wall lizards swarming the Capital Region

Omar Washington·Saturday, September 19, 2020·5 min

🏛️News

Tired of the smoke? Blame bad forestry policy

Years of disrupting the forests' natural burn cycle has predictably yielded the apocalyptic firestorm now choking the West Coast with haze

Harley Gordon·Thursday, September 17, 2020·5 min

🏛️News

Can you really just have a python live in your backpack?

Following up on the ball python who died in Victoria after repeatedly escaping from the bag of its apparently homeless owner.

Tori Marlan·Wednesday, September 16, 2020·4 min

🏛️News

Haunting photos of Victoria under the smoke

This has not been a good year for Vancouver Islanders who like to breathe freely

James MacDonald·Tuesday, September 15, 2020·2 min

🏛️News

What happened when the BC government started selling cannabis

Licensing delays, layoffs, shuttered businesses, raids.

Chloe Rose Stuart-Ulin·Thursday, September 10, 2020·8 min

🏛️News

PHOTOS: Inside the tenting community at Beacon Hill Park

We recently spent time in the park and spoke to campers.

Anna J. James·Monday, September 7, 2020·2 min

🏛️Politics

Meet the Rig Diggers: Current and former addicts who collect used needles in Victoria

They usually find eight per shift. Last week they broke a record.

Anna J. James·Tuesday, September 1, 2020·5 min

🏛️News

Why tent encampments, like music festivals, may not be legal at Beacon Hill Park

A lawsuit by the Friends of Beacon Hill Park is looking to sue the City of Victoria into evicting Beacon Hill Park's tent encampments

Thomas Guerrero·Sunday, August 30, 2020·6 min

🏛️News

The human cost of COVID-19 lockdowns

Social distancing has saved thousands of lives, but it’s ruined thousands of others

Harley Gordon·Saturday, August 29, 2020·8 min

🏛️Features

The destructive conspiracy theory that Victoria unleashed upon the world

In the 1980s some of the world’s most powerful institutions were taken in by stories, begun in Victoria, of a global Satanic underground abducting and abusing thousands of children

Jen Gerson·Friday, August 28, 2020·25 min

🏛️News

GRAPHS: How crime has risen in downtown since the onset of COVID-19

While property crime is way up, other crimes are actually way down

Snejana Vorona·Wednesday, August 26, 2020·2 min
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