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Firms face clashes in Island towns as they struggle to make profits

It started with a catchy Pat Benatar song. Matthew Payne, treasurer of Victoria's Professional Arts Alliance, walked into a meeting to discuss the province's cuts to arts funding singing Love Is a Battlefield, after hearing the song on the radio.

An archeology expert has made a mammoth discovery in the cliffs of the Saanich Peninsula. Grant Keddie, curator of archeology at the Royal 乌鸦传媒

A Cowichan Valley veterinarian and her husband, a wildlife biologist, are leaving Thursday for Chile to help two communities that have gone to the dogs.

Donations, number of shoppers up, sales down slightly from last year

For decades, the pirate-themed home dubbed The Swallowed Anchor in Esquimalt has delighted passersby with its quirky folk art -- a perched mermaid, treasure-chest shop and buccaneer keeping lookout in a crow's nest, to name just a few features.

Images of mouldy native houses point to need for government accountability, says Denise Savoie

Before he slipped away on New Year's Day, this is what Hornby Island's Billy Little said he wanted written on his tombstone: Billy Little Poet Hydro is too expensive "But," he continued, "I'd like my mortal remains to be set adrift on a flaming raft

Victoria will work with owners rather than see units boarded up

It looks tiny, but the house can snugly fit a family of four and a Duncan company hopes it's a partial answer to the housing crisis on First Nations reserves. Brent Pollard, sales director for EcoSIP Industries Inc.