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Saanich's Shelbourne corridor has seen a spike in crime over the last three months. According to police, it started when the former Mount Tolmie Hospital was taken over by BC Housing.
Ryan Burghardt owns Budget Break and Muffler on Douglas Street in downtown Victoria. He says a drastic increase in crime is hurting his business.
Article content Try refreshing your browser, or Daphne Bramham: A few summer thoughts, from rockets to beach volleyball Back to video In the Before Times, a friend asked whether I planned to stop flying internationally in order to reduce my carbon footprint due to climate-change concerns. My answer then and now is an emphatic, NO, for a whole bunch of reasons, including that my 20-year-old car has fewer than 60,000 kilometres on it. Even as fires rage across B.C., much of Western Canada and the United States, I am definitely not a climate-change denier. But here are two reasons why I’m no...
Article content There could also be national versions of B.C.’s property and speculation tax, which attempts to monitor the more extensive foreign ownership that is not tracked by the Canadian Housing Statistics Program. That is, property owned by proxies for foreign nationals and by “satellite families,” whose breadwinners make more than half their income outside the country. The Canada Revenue Agency could do much more, Yan said, to take part in the kind of inter-bureaucracy information sharing that is supporting B.C.’s speculation tax, which monitors owners not paying their share o...
Recovery from disaster is a long process, as this Museum of Anthropology exhibition demonstrates. Open until Sept. 19. “This has all the hallmarks of a SLAPP suit,” said Ezra Morse, a 41-year-old software engineer and defendant in the case. “Developers only have to throw a few thousand dollars at trying to get advocates to shut up.” SLAPP suits — Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation — are what the new legislation aims to prevent. Often, they’re filed by large groups with deep financial pockets and a wealth of legal resources against engaged citizens and activists who ...