Edward Hill

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Blind runner (black shirt) Graeme McCreath with his guide Carlos Castillo run in the inaugural McNeill Bay Half Marathon in September 2011 (The duo finished 2:06). The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal ruled that the TC10K discriminated against McCreath for not allowing him to start that race ahead of the main pack.

Blind runner wins discrimination case against TC10K

The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has ordered the TC10K organization to pay damages and to accommodate a blind runner from Saanich

Blind runner (black shirt) Graeme McCreath with his guide Carlos Castillo run in the inaugural McNeill Bay Half Marathon in September 2011 (The duo finished 2:06). The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal ruled that the TC10K discriminated against McCreath for not allowing him to start that race ahead of the main pack.
Saanich-based engineers Mike Ferguson and Ben Moore have created a secure system called SmartPager that allows medical professionals to communicate through their smartphones. Outside of the Royal Jubilee Hospital, Ferguson shows a typical encrypted text message stream, while Moore shows a pager, a device still widely used by doctors.

Prying doctors from their pagers

Saanich tech startup aims to revolutionize outdated communication within the medical world

Saanich-based engineers Mike Ferguson and Ben Moore have created a secure system called SmartPager that allows medical professionals to communicate through their smartphones. Outside of the Royal Jubilee Hospital, Ferguson shows a typical encrypted text message stream, while Moore shows a pager, a device still widely used by doctors.
Garth Homer society client Laurie Fairweather holds an iPad as Lynne Hibak traces colours using an art app. The society has purchased 14 iPads after a staff member showed that clients with developmental disabilities deeply enjoyed using the hands-on technology.

IPad gives a stronger voice to developmentally disabled

Portable, touch-screen devices widely adopted into Saanich-based Garth Homer Society programs

Garth Homer society client Laurie Fairweather holds an iPad as Lynne Hibak traces colours using an art app. The society has purchased 14 iPads after a staff member showed that clients with developmental disabilities deeply enjoyed using the hands-on technology.
University of Victoria students Rhyanna Bunniss, left, and Alexander MacDougall, right, are now veteran cold water swimmers after participating in Jasmin Gerwien’s Victory Ocean Swim fundraiser in December. Gerwien is hosting her third fundraiser swim for the Mustard Seed on Sunday (Feb. 17) at 1 p.m. at Gyro Park in Saanich.

Ocean swim fundraiser grows

Mustard Seed funraiser and ocean swim Sunday 1 p.m. at Gyro Park in Saanich

University of Victoria students Rhyanna Bunniss, left, and Alexander MacDougall, right, are now veteran cold water swimmers after participating in Jasmin Gerwien’s Victory Ocean Swim fundraiser in December. Gerwien is hosting her third fundraiser swim for the Mustard Seed on Sunday (Feb. 17) at 1 p.m. at Gyro Park in Saanich.
A worker patches the drywall in a vacant Uptown retail space next to the Telus store Tuesday around noon, presumably the same location where someone cut through the wall earlier the same day.

Cellphone stores targeted in sophisticated heists

Saanich police investigators suspect thieves were targeting the new BlackBerry 10 mobile phone during two well-planned break-ins this week.

A worker patches the drywall in a vacant Uptown retail space next to the Telus store Tuesday around noon, presumably the same location where someone cut through the wall earlier the same day.
University of Victoria chemistry professor Alex Brolo sits behind a prototype of a biosensor (yellow) being used to detect leukemia from blood samples. A consortium of universities – UVic, UBC, SFU and BCIT – have been granted $7.7 million from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation to move a series of nanotechnology projects into the commericalization phase.

Nanotechnology at UVic gets a boost into the real world

A biomedical sensor the size of a postage stamp could hold the answer to a fast and inexpensive way to diagnose disease.

University of Victoria chemistry professor Alex Brolo sits behind a prototype of a biosensor (yellow) being used to detect leukemia from blood samples. A consortium of universities – UVic, UBC, SFU and BCIT – have been granted $7.7 million from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation to move a series of nanotechnology projects into the commericalization phase.
Saanich homeowner Rishi Sharma loads a sink from his house into a Habitat for Humanity truck on Saturday. Sharma donated his house to Habitat and other non-profits in an attempt to reuse and recycle the structure prior to building two new houses on his Mount Douglas Cross Road lot.

Everything, including the kitchen sink

Saanich family donates house pegged for demolition to charity groups in attempt to reuse and recycle every scrap

Saanich homeowner Rishi Sharma loads a sink from his house into a Habitat for Humanity truck on Saturday. Sharma donated his house to Habitat and other non-profits in an attempt to reuse and recycle the structure prior to building two new houses on his Mount Douglas Cross Road lot.

Offshore dumping case in Victoria shows limitations to Canadian law

A Norwegian shipping company steadfastly remains a no-show in Victoria court

Fifty Fifty Arts Collective board members Jzero Schuurman, left, and Renee Crawford in the group’s busy studio.

Victoria’s Fifty Fifty Arts Collective marks 10 years as hub for emerging art

The Fifty Fifty 10 year celebration is Friday, Jan. 11, from 7 to 10 p.m. 2516 Douglas St. and is free.

Fifty Fifty Arts Collective board members Jzero Schuurman, left, and Renee Crawford in the group’s busy studio.
Mitchell Smith, 17, in Grade 12, pushes wood through the Lambrick Park secondary’s Weinig moulder machine as part of his after school milling job. Led by teacher Roger Conrod, Lambrick Park has quietly run a lumber milling operation for 14 years using equipment he has had donated from American industrial companies.

A classroom and a lumber business

Students drive Lambrick Park secondary’s low-key but successful wood milling operation

Mitchell Smith, 17, in Grade 12, pushes wood through the Lambrick Park secondary’s Weinig moulder machine as part of his after school milling job. Led by teacher Roger Conrod, Lambrick Park has quietly run a lumber milling operation for 14 years using equipment he has had donated from American industrial companies.
Greg Goldberg, left, records another episode of 'Are You Still a Genius?,' a gameshow format event posted to the Internet designed to improve cognitive skills of people with brain injuries. Participating, from left are Adam Smith, Bill Cawker, Ben Smith and (unseen) Peter Brozik.

Brain injury survivor works hard to give back

With mind-bending quizzes and dropped tomatoes, Greg Goldberg works hard to help people and raise awareness about traumatic brain injuries

Greg Goldberg, left, records another episode of 'Are You Still a Genius?,' a gameshow format event posted to the Internet designed to improve cognitive skills of people with brain injuries. Participating, from left are Adam Smith, Bill Cawker, Ben Smith and (unseen) Peter Brozik.
UVic astrophysicist Julio Navarro stands under the 32-inch telescope at the university. Navarro was part of a team that used data from a much larger telescope in Hawaii to figure out that a a cluster of galaxies is moving in a way that defies understanding.

A discovery, and a mystery, of galactic proportions

Small galaxies behaving somewhat planet-like by orbiting the Andromeda galaxy is both a discovery and a puzzle for UVic scientists

UVic astrophysicist Julio Navarro stands under the 32-inch telescope at the university. Navarro was part of a team that used data from a much larger telescope in Hawaii to figure out that a a cluster of galaxies is moving in a way that defies understanding.

Rural Saanich residents aim to flush biosolids plant

The Capital Regional District is still at least a year from building a sewage resource recovery plant at Hartland Landfill

Testimony ends at Phil Jacobs sexual abuse trial

Supreme Court justice to hear final arguments in January

A Saanich police officer uses a canvas sack to haul marijuana leaves out of a house on Genevieve Road in the North Douglas area of Saanich. Police say that for several months the house was used purely as a grow-op and and nobody lived at the residence. Officers seized between 600 and 700 plants in various stages of cultivation.

Bad smell, empty home, neighbours noticed poorly hidden grow-op

It’s a roomy 1970s-era home on neatly manicured property on a quiet street that looks typical for Saanich.

A Saanich police officer uses a canvas sack to haul marijuana leaves out of a house on Genevieve Road in the North Douglas area of Saanich. Police say that for several months the house was used purely as a grow-op and and nobody lived at the residence. Officers seized between 600 and 700 plants in various stages of cultivation.

Former friend testifies against accused former priest

A one-time friend of Phillip Jacobs testified on Thursday that the former Saanich priest touched him inappropriately a number of times

Witness testifies to alleged sexual abuse at Saanich church

Key complainant takes stand against former Saanich priest Phillip Jacobs

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria curator of Asian art Barry Till spent the last few years hunting down century-old Japanese woodblock prints related to the famed story of the 47 ronin.

Following the code of the samurai 

Prints from 1800s tell a famed Japanese tale of revenge

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria curator of Asian art Barry Till spent the last few years hunting down century-old Japanese woodblock prints related to the famed story of the 47 ronin.
Nurse practitioner Janice Robinson chats with Lodge at Broadmead resident Edmund “Ted” Semmens, 92, about his general health and wellbeing. A nurse practitioner at a residential care home is rare and has proven its worth, but the publicly funded Broadmead Care Society fears it won’t be able to keep the position next year without a boost in its budget.

Hard fight for nurse practitioner

Advanced nursing project proves value for seniors with Broadmead Care, but funding remains a struggle

Nurse practitioner Janice Robinson chats with Lodge at Broadmead resident Edmund “Ted” Semmens, 92, about his general health and wellbeing. A nurse practitioner at a residential care home is rare and has proven its worth, but the publicly funded Broadmead Care Society fears it won’t be able to keep the position next year without a boost in its budget.
Lambrick Grade 12 student Rodrigo Pampin polishes the cedar canoe he single-handedly fashioned over the past 13 months. His teacher Roger Conrod said the 17-year-old's craftsmanship and meticulous attention to detail is extremely rare.

Lambrick student deemed a woodworking master

Cut with perfectly symmetrical curved strips of light and dark cedar, Rodrigo Pampin’s polished canoe looks professional – and pricey.

Lambrick Grade 12 student Rodrigo Pampin polishes the cedar canoe he single-handedly fashioned over the past 13 months. His teacher Roger Conrod said the 17-year-old's craftsmanship and meticulous attention to detail is extremely rare.