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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.
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🏛️News

Why Victoria, Like Other Cities, Always Seems to Plow the Bike Lanes First

There's actually a pretty logical explanation

Tristin Hopper·Thursday, January 16, 2020·6 min

🏛️News

Victoria Snowbound: Here's Everything You Need to Know

In a few hours, Victoria got more snow than it's seen in five of the last 10 years

Capital Daily Staff·Tuesday, January 14, 2020·8 min

🏛️News

Victoria Is Already Getting Warmer. Here's the Proof

As recently as 1940, the city was one degree colder than it is now

Capital Daily Staff·Wednesday, January 8, 2020·4 min

🏛️Environment

Victoria's Birds Are Disappearing. Here's Why.

The barn owl and the skylark were among the bird species notably missing from this year's Christmas bird count

Jamie Sarkonak·Monday, December 30, 2019·9 min

🏛️News

The Christmas Eve Murder That Shocked 19th Century Victoria

A man was gunned down in cold blood outside a Christmas Eve mass, in what police suspected was a botched assassination

Tristin Hopper·Monday, December 23, 2019·6 min

🏛️News

How to Bring Down Vancouver Island Gas Prices

Right now, a litre of Victoria gas is $1.32 to Edmonton’s $0.82

Ian King·Wednesday, December 18, 2019·9 min

🏛️News

The Rejected Plan to Build a Bypass Around the Malahat

New report, swiftly rejected by province, lays out how drivers would be able to avoid the treacherous mountain highway

Capital Daily Staff·Monday, December 16, 2019·5 min

🏛️News

How Harbour Air Beat Everyone Else to the Electric Aviation Revolution

Electric planes work for Victoria and Vancouver in a way that they just don't anywhere else

Capital Daily Staff·Tuesday, December 10, 2019·6 min

🏛️News

Why Vancouver Island will never get a bridge to the Mainland

Giving 500,000 people a more convenient ride to Vancouver would be the single most daunting engineering project in Canadian history

Tristin Hopper·Thursday, December 5, 2019·9 min

🏛️News

B.C. Ferries Aren't As Expensive As You Think

We compared them to car ferries around the world, and everyone from Brits to Italians are paying more

Capital Daily Staff·Monday, December 2, 2019·4 min

🏛️News

Victoria’s Cruise Ship Conundrum

As it positions itself as one of Canada’s greenest cities, Victoria has simultaneously been boosting an industry condemned around the world for its pollution

Capital Daily Staff·Sunday, December 1, 2019·12 min

🏛️Housing

Here's How Unaffordable Victoria Really Is

There are fewer Millennials owning homes in Victoria than even Toronto or Vancouver

Leo Spalteholz·Thursday, November 28, 2019·5 min

🏛️News

What Victoria’s Megaprojects Will Cost in Interest

Servicing the debt for the Johnson Street Bridge and the Wastewater Treatment Plant will ultimately cost more than $50 million

Capital Daily Staff·Tuesday, November 26, 2019·3 min

🏛️News

Scandal-Plagued Prince Andrew Still Retains Two Vancouver Island Ceremonial Titles

Non-profits around the world are rejecting the Duke of York's patronage amid renewed scrutiny over Andrew's ties to convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein

Tristin Hopper·Sunday, November 24, 2019·3 min

🏛️News

Had the Nazis Won, This Was the Canadian Childhood Planned for Queen Elizabeth II

There is good reason to believe that the current site of Royal Roads University once stood ready to accept a refugee King George VI and his family

Cosmin Dzsurdzsa·Thursday, November 21, 2019·9 min

🏛️Politics

Why Canada Doesn't Allow Private Healthcare

As a B.C. lawsuit to legalize private healthcare wraps up this week, we review how it got this way

Tristin Hopper·Wednesday, November 20, 2019·6 min

🏛️News

Why Amsterdam Might Be a Horrible Model for Building a Carbon-Free City

Yes, Amsterdammers cycle everywhere, but they also live in a flat, dense, comparatively affordable city (that’s wracked with bike theft)

Thomas Guerrero·Tuesday, November 19, 2019·6 min

🏛️News

Victoria City Council's Proposed 55 Per Cent Pay Raise Is Wildly Out of Step with Similar Cities

On almost every metric, it's hard to find any council in Canada proposing to pay itself as much

Capital Daily Staff·Sunday, November 17, 2019·4 min

🏛️News

The Most Surreal Pictures in the Victorian World

Hannah Maynard wasn't just one of the only female photographers in the British Empire. She did things with film that European masters could only dream of.

Tristin Hopper·Thursday, November 14, 2019·5 min

🏛️News

What Climate Change Is Expected to do to Victoria

As Victoria pursues plans to sue for the damage of climate change, we probed what those damages would be

Caitlin Stall-Paquet·Tuesday, November 12, 2019·5 min

🏛️News

Carbon Dioxide into Stone: UVic’s Revolutionary Plan to Reverse Climate Change

B.C.-led team to pioneer technology to suck greenhouse gases from the air and entomb them deep under the ocean

Tristin Hopper·Monday, November 4, 2019·4 min

🏛️News

What If the Sludge Pipeline Breaks?

Victoria’s 19-kilometre pressurized sewage sludge pipeline is designed not to rupture, but that doesn’t mean it’s not impossible

Cosmin Dzsurdzsa·Sunday, November 3, 2019·6 min

🏛️News

Fight the Deer, or Make Peace?

Four years after a community declared war on deer, the deer are winning

Jolene Rudisuela·Sunday, November 3, 2019·10 min

🏛️News

Canada’s Jack the Ripper

Victoria in 1899 was no stranger to killing, but this was a new and horrifying kind of murder

Tristin Hopper·Wednesday, October 30, 2019·10 min
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