Improved access to food in schools is making the learning day better for students at Gabriola Elementary, according to the principal.

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With Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland promising to keep the federal deficit from ballooning in Tuesday’s federal budget, all eyes will be on the Liberals’ plan to pay for their agenda — and whether that could include new taxes on the wealthy.

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Downtown Nanaimo's Wharf Street will soon take centre stage as films crews move in for the production that producers and film officials are keeping under wraps.

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Booms and air raid sirens sounded in Jerusalem early Sunday after Iran launched dozens of drones and ballistic missiles toward Israel in an unprecedented revenge mission that pushed the Middle East ever closer to a regionwide war.

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The co-owner of a short-term rental company in Victoria has teamed up with the Property Rights Association of BC to file a petition in B.C. Supreme Court against the provincial government and the City of Victoria.

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An adorable local celebrity may have made his way back to the shores of Greater Victoria once again.

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The province says it’s sending nearly $13 million to communities across Vancouver Island and the B.C. coast to help with infrastructure projects and other business initiatives.

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The province should establish a fund to help local purchase of land for biodiversity protection, a letter from the Regional District of Nanaimo will say.

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A spike in overdose deaths in the six British Columbia nations that make up the Tsilhqot’in National Government has prompted the chiefs to declare a local state of emergency.

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A man stabbed six people to death at a busy Sydney shopping center Saturday before he was fatally shot, police said, with hundreds fleeing the chaotic scene, many weeping as they carried their children. Eight people, including a 9-month-old, were injured.

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Saanich police are notifying residents that a cougar was spotted in someone’s backyard on Saturday morning.

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There’s a new street name in B.C.’s capital, and when you’re on it, you may want to be on your best behaviour. That’s because the street is named after Doug Hudlin, who was also known as the Gentleman Umpire of Victoria.

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Conjoined twins Lori and George Schappell, who pursued separate careers, interests and relationships during lives that defied medical expectations, died this month in Pennsylvania, according to funeral home officials. They were 62.

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RCMP are on the lookout for a man who is wanted on four warrants out of Oak Bay and the West Shore.

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Nearly three weeks ago, the boat Ryan Brackenbury had been piloting inconveniently ran aground on the beach in Gonzales Bay.

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The team attempting to rescue an orphaned killer whale trapped in a remote B.C. lagoon is regrouping today after an initial attempt to capture the young orca failed.

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A Port Alberni woman has survived surgery after contracting a rare illness called rat-bite fever.

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A Nanaimo restaurant owner is reeling after suffering three break-ins in just over a month. On Friday, awnings were being removed in the area to reduce loitering, and the growing number of fires being started by homeless people beneath them.

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Learning supports, counselling and 10 strings programs are on the chopping block as the Greater Victoria School District makes roughly $6-million in budget cuts.

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