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The stainless steel, batteries, hull windows, engines, wood, plastics and hydrocarbons will be recycled, and the rest — the bulk of it fibreglass — will go to the landfill. It’s been a steady clip of work for Salish Sea Industrial Services and its barge crews, divers and sub-contractors, who have removed more than 100 dead boats over the past three years from the waters around Greater Victoria and the Gulf Islands. A fresh round of funding from the federal government’s Ocean Protection Plan is allowing the company to reclaim another 24 abandoned, beached and sunken vessels. Ten of...

2020 will — of course — be remembered for the pandemic, but it turns out there were lots of other stories, too — some of which I had totally forgotten about. In fact, looking back over the . . .

Photograph By iStock 2020 will — of course — be remembered for the pandemic, but it turns out there were lots of other stories, too — some of which I had totally forgotten about. In fact, looking back over the most-read news stories of the year, it turns out only about half of them were related to the pandemic. Here’s a list of the Top 10, starting with the most-read, with a small disclaimer: It’s only news stories, so I’ve left out columnists like Lawrie McFarlane, Jack Knox and Eric Akis, whose piece on whether imported basa fish is safe to eat is a perenni...

The H1N1 flu pandemic, which lasted from February 1918 to April 1920, killed about 50 million people around the world. It infected 10 times that number, in four waves. It remains the most severe pandemic in history — but by Christmas 1920, the world had moved on. There was still much to be done as we recovered from the Great War. Its impact was still being felt in Victoria. Craigdarroch, at the time a home for men injured in the First World War — the “maimed and sick returned men,” as the Victoria Daily Times put it — was busy. A special dinner was offered to the men on Christma...