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- 2013
- May
- April
- Victoria creates cycling task force
- Auditor KPMG urges Victoria to protect whistleblowers
- Global News: Residents protest proposed soil dump
- CRD board opposes dumping of contaminated soil at Shawnigan Lake
- MOE chewing on about 300 comments on dirty dirt plan
- CTV News: CRD opposes toxic soil dump at Shawnigan Lake
- CBC Radio Interview: Toxic soil dump in Shawnigan Lake
- Shawnigan soil fight heads to Victoria
- Dumping protest hits Ministry office today
- Victoria council wants more info on Shawnigan waste proposal
- March
- Victoria seeks to avoid tiffs with harbour board
- Community meeting addresses speed issue in Victoria
- Vancouver Co-Op Radio Interview: Municipal Speed Limits
- Plan to drop speed limit to 40 km/h on city streets met with 'hate'
- Victoria backs away from automating parkades
- E&N deal still not done but repair funds sought
- February
- Cut city management bonuses, says union boss
- Ben addresses the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority
- Angry crowd confronts harbour authority
- Greater Victoria Harbour Authority rejects city councillor as board member
- Harbour authority must be held accountable for rejecting appointee, Victoria councillor says
- $282,000 a year for expert sewage team
- Free Family Day swim draws 1,000 to pool
- Crystal Pool swims against tide, will be closed on Family Day
- January
- 2012
- December
- A look back at 2012 in Victoria
- CRD sewage committee OKs consulting contract
- CFAX Radio Interview: Harbour Land
- Oak Bay sewage treatment motion defeated by CRD
- CTV News: CRD rejects second look at sewage treatment
- Council slams Transport Canada for failing on Inner Harbour pollution and safety concerns
- Northern Junk project moving forward on Victoria waterfront
- Transport Canada slammed for lack of transparency
- Victoria council eager for input on Northern Junk proposal
- Don't forget treatment, VIHA urged
- Dallas Road skirmish brewing over sewage pipe
- November
- Roxy movie theatre wins approval to serve alcohol
- Public forum on Victoria's sewage treatment tonight aims to give clarity
- City hopes new garbage system doesn't send old cans to landfill
- Open government more theory than practice
- Community backs booze at the Roxy
- City restores $100,000 for social housing after community pressure
- Roxy’s bid to serve alcohol put on hold
- CRD grants E&N $1.2 million for railway repairs
- Victoria council waffles on beefing up freedom-of-info processes
- CFAX interview: Proactive Disclosure
- Victoria councillor wants to release full details on Bridge replacement
- October
- Defend Our Coast: CBC and CFAX radio interviews
- Anti-pipeline proponents hold sit-in at Legislature Monday
- CBC Radio Interview: Federal By-Election
- What's in a name? Challenging colonization on CFAX 1070
- All-Candidates' Debate on CFAX 1070
- Coun. Isitt joins race for NDP nomination
- Victoria city councillor plans to run for NDP nomination
- September
- Municipalities narrowly oppose pipeline projects
- UBCM opposes oil tanker traffic growth in near-split vote
- Victoria council requests more oversight on bridge building
- Airport might shoulder entire cost of runway project
- Towers must meet conditions before public has say
- City to consider revamped towers
- Downtown lawn bowling club's lease renewed by Victoria councillors for $1 a year
- CBC radio interview: Johnson Street Bridge procurement
- August
- July
- Victoria comes up with a plan, helped by plenty of public input
- Victoria's Official Community Plan survives first round of tweaking
- Politicians back city legacy fund
- CRD senior managers pocket four per cent raises
- Naming rights on city assets to get full public debate
- Draft policy approved on site-naming rights
- Ditches, berm likely to stay at Island View
- Fresh eyes sought on Victoria cost-cutting
- City manager's contract renewed quickly
- Vancouver Island district mulls a cull of city-dwelling deer
- Victoria council to examine pay, with an eye to cutting costs
- Victoria mulls giving staff authority to approve building
- Fernwood community builder Paul Phillips remembered for his vision and generosity
- June
- CBC Radio Interview: Paul Phillips - The Heart of Fernwood
- City of Victoria contracting out questioned
- City execs' salaries rise by up to 76% since 2007
- City of Victoria looks to remove former E & N ticket office
- CFAX interview: Victoria's train station and commuter rail
- How would you like to own a decommissioned railway station?
- Victoria to pursue grants for electric charging stations
- May
- Victoria council considers service cuts, layoffs
- CFUV radio interview: Victoria mutiny, Paul Phillips and City land sales
- Information gap should give council pause
- Editorial: Remove veil from public land sales
- Victoria forum on sale of public lands draws interest
- CFAX 1070 interview: City-owned land
- Isitt right to question Glenlyon tax status
- Victoria neighbours prompt city to reopen Chandler-Gonzales pathway
- Roundabout revisited for key crossing
- Debate delayed as councillor reined in by mayor
- Naming rights decision for City postponed
- Tax break for Glenlyon Norfolk school sparks opposition
- CRD complains about power outages at its headquarters building
- CFUV Radio: Selling City Land
- City of Victoria to consider selling Harbour Road lands
- Victoria council to consider sale of industrial waterfront properties in Vic West
- April
- Victoria families being reno-victed
- Day of Mourning event set for Centennial Square
- Victoria council asks developer to reconsider evictions
- CTV News: Quadra Villa tenants face eviction
- Tenants in Victoria apartment complex to be evicted for renovations
- Victoria residents see 3.25% tax hike
- No kitchen scraps in landfill by 2015
- CBC radio interview: Johnson Street Bridge design questions
- March
- Are street people treated unfairly? Businessman, politician differ
- Victoria's tax increase shrinks, thanks to council cuts
- CFAX radio interview: Regulatory approach to cannabis control
- Council unanimously passes motion to support regulatory approach to cannabis control
- Victoria begins tendering process for bridge project
- Victoria council deems pot good, pipelines bad
- Victoria approves $15.8 million increase to Johnson Street Bridge project
- CTV News: Council to decide fate of Johnson Street Bridge
- Battle lines being drawn over bridge design
- CFAX Radio interview: Johnson Street Bridge cost overruns
- Chek TV News: Bridge Cost Rises
- Bridge debate changes focus to cost, design
- More police needed, but chief making do
- Ombudsman suggested to ease councillors' load
- CBC Radio interview: Municipal Ombudsperson
- Victoria eyes cuts to parks, paths and bike plans to lower tax hit
- 2011 slow year in Victoria for new housing
- Saanich and Victoria look to create new 'midtown' region on Douglas
- Victoria, Saanich councils consider interim improvements to transit; LRT for long term
- February
- Vic Councillor to promote “Midtown” at joint council meeting
- CFAX radio interview: Midtown Master Plan
- Beacon Hill Park roads could close in trial run
- Half of municipal reps on PCC board resign over land sale strategy
- Two more appointees resign from PCC board
- PCC board member quits over land sales
- Negotiations for Victoria baseball team proceed
- Johnson Street Bridge to continue as planned
- Victoria approves ban on feeding pests
- Blue Bridge replacement won't be redesigned to allow for rail
- New councillor wants to reopen Johnson Street Bridge design debate
- Baseball team’s use of park questioned
- Private estate owner eyes Victoria's lampposts
- CFAX interview: Rethinking Garbage and the Royal Athletic Park
- Curbside trash pickup put on hold
- Victoria postpones vote on Garbage pickup
- CBC Radio interview: Rail-capable Johnson Street Bridge
- City urged to look again at rail option for Johnson Street Bridge
- Victoria leans toward curbside waste pickup
- Limited transparency
- CFAX interview: Garbage, kitchen scraps and opening up City Hall
- January
- December
- 2011
- December
- CTV News report on Victoria mutiny commemoration
- Radio-Canada television report on mutiny (francaise)
- Victoria mutiny of 1918 revived in call for justice
- Radio interviews on Victoria mutiny commemoration
- Group calls for pardon of francophone soldiers who resisted conscription
- CBC radio On the Island interview on mutiny
- Memory of mutineers honoured at downtown gathering
- Bridge relocation triggers Northern Junk debate
- Councillors in favour of open house on strategy
- Path shut for more than three decades may be reopened
- Planned development at foot of Johnson Street Bridge on hold
- Downtown gateway development concept fails to win enthusiastic Council support
- Interview on CFAX 1070: Public office, regional services and the oath to the Queen
- November
- October
- August
- July
- April
- December
- 2010
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- 2002
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