Local leaders cheer affordable housing progress in Tofino

Local leaders and community stakeholders cheerfully toured through a construction site at 363 Peterson Drive on Friday, March 10, that will soon be home to 37 affordable housing units being built through a partnership between the Tofino Housing Corporation and Catalyst Community Development Society. (Andrew Bailey photo)
Stakeholders tour construction site that will soon provide 37 affordable housing units
Rhonda Caron posted this photo to Facebook of the flooding in Princeton on Monday, Nov. 15, 2021. Over 290 homes were evacuated in Princeton and the entire town of 7,000 residents of Merritt have been evacuated from flooding. (Facebook)

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You could spend a lifetime paddling here! Endless kayaking adventures await on southern Vancouver Island

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Black Press file photo of the annual herring spawn in the Salish Sea.

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Police seized more than $100,000 in vaping products being sold to youth at local schools after executing a search warrant at a Saanich business Friday (March 6). (Courtesy Saanich Police Department)

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Program manager Ben Whitby shows a similar type of buoy-based wave data collection platform to the one that will be deployed in the waters off Yuquot at the University of Victoria’s Pacific Regional Institute for Marine Energy Discovery (PRIMED) lab in North Saanich March 3. (Austin Westphal/News Staff) Program manager Ben Whitby shows a similar type of buoy-based wave data collection platform to the one that will be deployed in the waters off Yuquot at the University of Victoria’s Pacific Regional Institute for Marine Energy Discovery (PRIMED) lab in North Saanich March 3. (Austin Westphal/News Staff)

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A shelf of drugs at a pharmacy Thursday, March 8, 2012 in Quebec City. In B.C., pharmacist Aftabahmed Abdullatif Shaikh is serving a one month suspension for faking his COVID vaccine records. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot

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A sombre group after the Colin John decision in the murder of Derek Descoteau. From left: Paula Phillips, Kristina Tkachuk, Brenda Smith, Janelle Guyatt and Leah Guyatt outside the Duncan courthouse. (Photo by Don Bodger)

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Conservative deputy leader Tim Uppal rises during Question Period, in Ottawa, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022. A cross-section of Canadian MPs are calling out India’s crackdown in the state of Punjab, as those criticizing internet restrictions face threatening tweets. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

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B.C. Auditor General Michael Pickup made seven recommendations to improve a strategy designed to increase inclusion and diversity in B.C.’s public service. (Photo Courtesy of the Office of Auditor General of British Columbia).

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