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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 a Victoria nonprofit obtained Canada's first medical exemption for magic mushrooms

Psilocybin, the active ingredient in "magic" mushrooms, has been banned in Canada since 1974

Anna J. James·Wednesday, August 26, 2020·3 min

🏛️News

GRAPHIC: How many BC could have lost to COVID-19

If BC had been hit like Quebec, 3,000 would be dead instead of 200

Snejana Vorona·Tuesday, August 18, 2020·3 min

🏛️News

Should our waters have all these American yachts in them?

At any one time, there’s usually a boat or two in the Inside Passage flying the stars and stripes

Anna J. James·Monday, August 17, 2020·4 min

🏛️News

Nightmare neighbour feud nets hefty fine in BC court

Six year saga ended with a Christmastime incident of a man attacking his neighbour's wall with a jackhammer

Cameron Welch·Sunday, August 16, 2020·3 min

🏛️News

The forgotten graveyards under Victoria

The BC capital is built atop one of the largest burial grounds of the pre-contact world

Jolene Rudisuela·Friday, August 14, 2020·11 min

🏛️News

Creepy hallways, stunning sunsets: The delivery driver's view of Victoria

In a series of images both eerie and surprising, prepare to never see this city quite the same way again

Brennan Storr·Friday, August 14, 2020·3 min

🏛️News

What are street checks, the thing Victoria just voted to ban?

They're much different than the more controversial practices of "carding" or "stop and frisk"

Anna J. James·Thursday, August 13, 2020·4 min

🏛️News

BC's worsening overdose crisis, graphed

The peripheral effects of COVID-19 have exacerbated an opioid crisis that, until recently, was trending downwards

Snejana Vorona·Tuesday, August 11, 2020·2 min

🏛️Politics

Where are Victoria's homeless coming from?

“Most of the people we see are from somewhere else,” an outreach worker told The Capital

Anna J. James·Monday, August 10, 2020·4 min

🏛️News

What the Beirut explosion would have done to Victoria

Virtually the entire historic downtown would have been flattened

Capital Daily Staff·Friday, August 7, 2020·2 min

🏛️News

Is it safe to send children back to school?

Unlike almost all infectious disease pandemics throughout history, this one leaves children largely unscathed

Harley Gordon·Friday, August 7, 2020·4 min

🏛️News

Inside Victoria's bike theft underground

One trick involves thieves hacking into condo security systems to gain access to bike storage lockers

Anna J. James·Monday, August 3, 2020·5 min

🏛️News

The British Columbia that might have been

BC began as a model to the world of multi-ethnic settlers living peacefully among self-governing indigenous peoples—and then it all went wrong

Terry Glavin·Sunday, August 2, 2020·9 min

🏛️News

How COVID-19 began

We definitely know it comes from a Chinese bat, but that's where it gets murky

Harley Gordon·Saturday, August 1, 2020·8 min

🏛️Features

Meet Omrane and Sarah—the entrepreneurs about to lose their home

This is part one of a series of previews of our upcoming feature on housing and water on Salt Spring Island, for subscribers only.

Jimmy Thomson·Friday, July 31, 2020·4 min

🏛️News

Inside the City of Victoria’s case against the Beacon Hill tenters

It took a city audit, drone surveys and hundreds of pages of legal documents to move 60 campers from one part of Beacon Hill Park to another part

Anna J. James·Wednesday, July 29, 2020·6 min

🏛️Features

Meet Rhonan Heitzmann—the water delivery man with big ideas for Salt Spring’s future

This is part three of a series of previews of our upcoming feature on housing and water on Salt Spring Island, for subscribers only.

Jimmy Thomson·Tuesday, July 28, 2020·4 min

🏛️Features

Meet Fernando Dos Santos—who is wading through bureaucracy to create housing

This is part two of a series of previews of our upcoming feature on housing and water on Salt Spring Island, for subscribers only. For part three, see below.

Jimmy Thomson·Tuesday, July 28, 2020·4 min

🏛️News

Victoria's unemployment isn't as bad as you think

The city lost a lot of jobs to COVID-19, but the rebound has been equally dramatic

Leo Spalteholz·Saturday, July 25, 2020·3 min

🏛️News

Fighting COVID-19 with tobacco: How Vancouver Island research is taking on the pandemic

Home coronavirus tests, an antivirus door handle coating and forensic work into when the earliest cases were among us

Tristin Hopper & Harley Gordon·Friday, July 24, 2020·6 min

🏛️News

How thousands of Canadian care home residents are being sedated with potentially deadly drugs

In some senior's homes, up to half of all residents have been prescribed potentially dangerous anti-psychotics not for psychosis, but because it makes them easier to handle

Tori Marlan·Saturday, July 18, 2020·18 min

🏛️Politics

That time we went to war with the Americans over a pig

Within sight of the Saanich Peninsula, a seemingly laughable dispute over a pig risked exploding into world war

Tristin Hopper·Friday, July 17, 2020·9 min

🏛️News

BC sets new record for overdose deaths

Only halfway through 2020, and overdose deaths have already dwarfed the total for all of 2019

Cameron Welch·Thursday, July 16, 2020·4 min

🏛️News

Where are all the US license plates coming from?

They’re not all disease-carrying interlopers

Tristin Hopper·Monday, July 13, 2020·7 min
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