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West Shore & Sooke

new year open house, langford, jan 2025

Langford council new year open house on Jan 25

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Thursday January 23, 2025 | LANGFORD, BC by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends City of Langford Council is hosting a New Year’s Open House. Being held on Saturday January 25 it's billed as an...
city of langford, budget

City of Langford 2025 Budget Survey online to Feb 9

city of langford, council

Langford gets early start on Budget 2025

traffic, goldstream and peatt road

Downtown Langford traffic delays: Goldstream & Peatt Rd on Jan 22

Health & Safety

josie osborne, nov 2024

Health Minister Josie Osborne’s long mandate letter

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Sunday January 19, 2025 | VICTORIA, BC by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends Nearly three months after the 2024 BC provincial election, this past week Premier David Eby issued his mandate letters to...
bc ambulance, paramedic

Op-Ed: BC Conservative critic’s view on current health-care system

sooke road, highway 14, map

Serious injuries in two-vehicle head-on Hwy 14 crash

baby swap, sooke library

Community invited to donate baby & toddler items

Environment & Sustainability

camping, tent

BC Parks campsite reservations now open for 2025 season

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Monday January 20, 2025 | VICTORIA, BC by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends BC Parks campsite reservations can be made to prepare for the 2025 spring camping season. This was announced on January 13 in a...
woodpile, house

FireSmart program available in View Royal

forestry jobs, logging

BC forestry jobs protection through capital projects & planning

langford council, jan 13, 2025

Langford council approves six-acre land purchase for natural park

Greater Victoria / CRD

metchosin, village centre designation

Village Centre land use updates in Metchosin

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Wednesday January 22, 2025 | METCHOSIN, BC by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends The District of Metchosin has a land use designation called 'Village Centre'. The designation includes supportive mapping, policies, objectives and a development...
king charles, coronation medal

King Charles III Coronation Medals awarded in Cowichan-Malahat-Langford

IMPACT, award winners, destination Greater Victoria

Destination Greater Victoria 2025 IMPACT Awards

town of view royal

View Royal welcomes new director of finance

Politics

bc task force, economy, tariffs

First meeting of BC trade and economic security task force

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Friday January 24, 2025 | VICTORIA, BC by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends A new BC task force on Trade and Economic Security has been in development over the past few weeks, according...
mary ng, campagne, hillman

Hillman, Champagne & Ng about their Washington trip

island social trends, canada-usa, news

PM & Premiers to meet weekly about Canada-US challenges

jagmeet singh, ndp leader

NDP on US tariff threat, carbon tax, upcoming election

Education

highway 14 at idlemore, aerial view

Hwy 14 safety improvements near Saseenos Elementary

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Thursday January 23, 2025 | SOOKE, BC by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends Some Highway 14 improvements are coming at Idlemore Road across from Saseenos Elementary School (a school within the Sooke School...
kindergarten, kids

SD62 Kindergarten registration in January 2025

cendra beaton, allison watson

SD62 launches 2025 with new board leadership

alexander elementary, SD79

New Year’s eve fire outside Alexander Elementary in Duncan

Business & Economy

mailbox, canada post

Quietly stabilizing Canada Post with a $1.034 billion loan

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Friday January 24, 2025 | VICTORIA, BC Economic analysis by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends Without any political debate or warning, the federal government has informed Canada Post that it intends to make...
bc task force, economy, tariffs

First meeting of BC trade and economic security task force

island social trends, canada-usa, news

PM & Premiers to meet weekly about Canada-US challenges

premier david eby, port of vancouver

BC Premier calls Trump tariff threat ‘bizarre’, announces BC task force

Food Supply & Healthy Eating

luxton table, environmental expo

Community shows up for high school Environmental Expo

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Sunday January 12, 2025 | COLWOOD, BC by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends About 150 people dropped by to tour a one-day Environmental Expo in Colwood yesterday. Organized by Grade 12 Belmont Secondary School...
environmental expo, jan 2025, event

Environmental Expo in west shore Jan 11

farm worker, peaches, bc

Annual pay increase on Dec 31 for farm workers who hand-harvest...

canned food, goldstream food bank

Steelworkers Humanity Fund donates to 129 food banks including eight on...

Housing

bc, short term rental

Short-term rental operators must register by May 1

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Monday January 20, 2025 | VICTORIA, BC by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends B.C.'s Housing Ravi Kahlon today announced the launch of a new B.C.-wide registry for short-term rentals. The registry is part of...
apartment building, victoria

Higher thresholds in 2025 for BC Renter’s Tax Credit & Homeowner...

triplex, multi-unit housing

BC home flipping tax revenues will be applied to building affordable...

bc budget 2025, housing

Housing will be a priority in BC Budget 2025 says Kahlon

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