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Our Community: Kids' salmon art, protect your home from wildfires

Our Community: Kids' salmon art, protect your home from wildfires

Two Island children have won first place in their age categories in the Pacific Salmon Foundation’s annual Kids Salmon Art Contest
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ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½'s drought: Water will keep flowing in capital region thanks to planning

ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½'s drought: Water will keep flowing in capital region thanks to planning

Though this summer is expected to be one of the driest since 1896, the CRD is confident water supply won’t be affected — in part because of a decision made 20-plus years ago.
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David Sovka: How to pick a career, or why what you love to do is not an actual job

David Sovka: How to pick a career, or why what you love to do is not an actual job

Your passions are probably not relevant to your job search unless you’re really into accounting or industrial vacuuming
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Trevor Hancock: The economy should serve well-being, planet health, not dominate them

Trevor Hancock: The economy should serve well-being, planet health, not dominate them

The economy is not a natural phenomenon, it is a human construct, so if it doesn’t work for us we should change it
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Monique Keiran: Try this ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ Day quiz

Monique Keiran: Try this ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ Day quiz

How well do you know Canadian history? Take this quiz to test your knowledge of Canadian history and symbols.
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Our Community: Explore Esquimalt's Urban Arts Tour; Victoria revamps busker program; Easter Seals camp gets a makeover

Our Community: Explore Esquimalt's Urban Arts Tour; Victoria revamps busker program; Easter Seals camp gets a makeover

This is the fifth anniversary of the Urban Arts Tour, which features paintings, pottery, glasswork, fibre art and more displayed in neighbourhood gardens.
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A warning signal: Grey whales are getting smaller — but why?

A warning signal: Grey whales are getting smaller — but why?

A population of grey whales that feeds off ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½'s coast has seen its adult population physically get smaller over the past two decades, a new study has found.
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David Sovka: Nostrils-deep in hay fever

David Sovka: Nostrils-deep in hay fever

Out here on the West Coast allergy season not so much a season as a condition, because something is always growing, blooming and spraying the air with its particular trigger to reach for the Kleenex.
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Trevor Hancock: Valuing our relationship with each other

Trevor Hancock: Valuing our relationship with each other

Many of our problems, I believe, stem from a mis-aligned set of values that are unfit for the 21st century challenges we face.
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Mass mortality: A fish scientist follows a tip about die-offs at ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ salmon farms

Mass mortality: A fish scientist follows a tip about die-offs at ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ salmon farms

DFO and operator attribute mass die-off to low oxygen, but one scientist who visited one far-flung site in a kayak worries the real cause could be more complicated.
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