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Four former Victoria HarbourCats will be scattered across the globe in March, each wearing their country’s colours at the 2026 World Baseball Classic (WBC).

Right-handers Indigo Diaz and Carter Loewen were named to Canada’s roster, while relief pitcher Chavez Fernander will suit up for Great Britain and outfielder Lucas Ramirez will represent Brazil.

The selecti...


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The Victoria Native Friendship Centre hopes the community will help build a new playground at Siem Lelum, or Respected House.

“It is not only that the house is respected, but that the people who live there are respected,” says Ron Rice executive director for the Victoria Native Friendship Centre that operates the site.

Housing is more than a door to lock, but ...


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You could walk past them a dozen times and never notice.

Bronze hands, life-size and quiet, jut from lamp posts, landscaped rocks, and building facades, each frozen in an ordinary gesture that carries extraordinary meaning.

In Victoria, these are the Hands of Time, 12 sculptures scattered across the downtown core, quietly marking the city’s 150th anniversary – w...


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For the Goldstream Protectors, the blare of car horns has become the sweet sound of success.

For more than three years, the group has been a familiar sight to drivers along the Trans-Canada Highway, gathering outside Goldstream Provincial Park every Tuesday morning to protest provincial plans to widen the road.

Tuesday (Feb. 10), the tone of the group’s protest ...


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Amid the fog, the highest of tides tickles the lowest branches of trees lining Tod Inlet.

Tiny relative to the adjacent Saanich Inlet, but all commingled as part of the Salish Sea, and traditional territories of local First Nations, this inlet lies within Gowlland Tod Provincial Park.

BC Parks notes that visitors will find remnants of early industry, the remain...


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