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West Shore & Sooke

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View Royal shifts council meeting times to support public participation

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Saturday July 5, 2025 | VIEW ROYAL, BC by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends Things shifted at the Town of View Royal council meeting on July 2, 2025. The start time for all Council and...

Business & Economy

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Eby continues to hammer away at better federal ferry funding

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Monday July 7, 225 | VICTORIA, BC by Mary P Brooke, Editor | Island Social Trends Today the BC Parliamentary Press Gallery media took another round at asking Premier David Eby about the BC Ferries shipbuilding...

Health & Safety

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Island Health lay-offs and executive role mergers

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Tuesday July 8, 2025 | VICTORIA, BC by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends Island Health has made moves to deal with the efficiency of organization and costs. Now that COVID-level overhead and the business...

Environment & Sustainability

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$400,000 for off-road vehicles community projects

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Saturday June 28, 2025 | VICTORIA, BC by Island Social Trends Almost $400,000 has been issued to off-road trail organizations to maintain existing trails, build new ones, as well as to promote safe and responsible use...

Greater Victoria / CRD

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View Royal shifts council meeting times to support public participation

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Saturday July 5, 2025 | VIEW ROYAL, BC by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends Things shifted at the Town of View Royal council meeting on July 2, 2025. The start time for all Council and...

Politics

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NDP launches 2025 election campaign review

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Tuesday July 8, 2025 | VICTORIA, BC Political analysis by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends A federal campaign review and renewal process has been launched by the federal ND. The party which saw defeat in...

Education

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Dave Strange retires from Sooke School District 62

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Sunday July 6, 2025 | LANGFORD, BC Notes by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends As this school year ends after grad season and the arrival of summer break, the Sooke School District (SD62) has...

Food Supply & Healthy Eating

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Agricultural worker pesticide exposure lawsuit now with Health Canada

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Friday July 4, 2025 | VICTORIA, BC by Mary P Brooke. B.Sc. | Island Social Trends A large workers union has launched a lawsuit against Health Canada over pesticide safety failures, it was announced in...

Housing

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BC incentivizes housing developers with staggered cost charges

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Wednesday July 2, 2025 | VICTORIA, BC by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends To inject more confidence into the decision-making of housing developers, the Province of BC has announced that only 25% of...

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