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A Saanich Grade 4 student’s snow-globe card design has been chosen to adorn Christmas cards being sent out by the municipality this year.

Previously, getting rid of the app fully required deleting the associated Instagram account.

A British software company says it owns the trademark for the name Threads in the U.K. and turned down multiple offers to sell the domain name.

The list of ways Twitter could be better is long. Many users think the platform should trash its unwelcome subscription models. Others call out CEO Elon Musk's tanking of accessibility tools for profit. And, apart from the vocal few who see it as a form of free speech, many think the proliferation of hate and disinformation needs to be addressed stat. It might make sense, then, to build these concerns into the launch of what could be Twitter's most successful rival. But the first week ...

Dozens of civil rights groups issue a letter calling out Threads' lack of hate speech and misinformation protections in critique of Meta's new Twitter competitor.

A roundup of good-news stories from around Vancouver Island. This week: Wild ARC celebrates a milestone, Silver Threads offers free classes, and group raises funds for a new community fridge.

The City of Victoria has approved the creation of two new community ­gardens — one in Vic West and one in South Jubilee — in recognition of Year of the Garden.