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Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon, seen in this 2021 photo, will be tabling legislation in the fall that will address housing being converted into short-term rentals and could require platforms to be more transparent with local governments. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)

B.C. housing minister tight-lipped on looming short-term rental regulations

Ravi Kahlon has concerns with the industry as he says it’s taking up too much housing stock

Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon, seen in this 2021 photo, will be tabling legislation in the fall that will address housing being converted into short-term rentals and could require platforms to be more transparent with local governments. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)
BC Ferries CEO Nicolas Jimenez speaks to the media on Aug. 2 about plans for avoiding terminal chaos over the B.C. Day long weekend. (Jake Romphf/News Staff)

BC Ferries CEO vows full capacity fleet over busy B.C. Day long weekend

Over half-a-million passengers expected amid challenging summer for coastal connector

BC Ferries CEO Nicolas Jimenez speaks to the media on Aug. 2 about plans for avoiding terminal chaos over the B.C. Day long weekend. (Jake Romphf/News Staff)
Pictured is Suncor’s base plant with upgraders in the oil sands in Fort McMurray, Alta. A new study finds equity ownership in Canada’s five largest fossil fuel companies is becoming increasingly concentrated. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson

B.C. researchers find Canadian fossil fuel financiers not pushing carbon shift

Increasingly foreign stakeholders hold considerable leverage on Canada’s biggest companies

Pictured is Suncor’s base plant with upgraders in the oil sands in Fort McMurray, Alta. A new study finds equity ownership in Canada’s five largest fossil fuel companies is becoming increasingly concentrated. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
This 2011 photo of the underwater basalt field located in the Endeavour area of the Cascadia Basin, located about 200 kilometres off the west coast of Vancouver Island, could soon be the site where carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is stored. (Courtesy of Ocean Networks Canada/CSSF-ROPOS)

Likely no earthquake risk from storing CO2 under ocean off B.C. coast

Project looks to pump massive amounts of captured emissions into ocean crust

This 2011 photo of the underwater basalt field located in the Endeavour area of the Cascadia Basin, located about 200 kilometres off the west coast of Vancouver Island, could soon be the site where carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is stored. (Courtesy of Ocean Networks Canada/CSSF-ROPOS)
The afternoon sun shines on a Victoria building on July 19. Statistics Canada data shows British Columbians have less access to air conditioning than any other region. (Jake Romphf/News Staff)

With hot days ahead, B.C. has the lowest air conditioning access in Canada

Statistics Canada’s first major study into AC use looks to identify those vulnerable to extreme heat

The afternoon sun shines on a Victoria building on July 19. Statistics Canada data shows British Columbians have less access to air conditioning than any other region. (Jake Romphf/News Staff)
Years after it started operating, odour complaints about the $775-million McLoughlin Point Wastewater Treatment Plant continue to come in. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

This $775M wastewater plant in B.C. is still seeing odour complaints

Neighbouring residents doubt the sewage treatment site’s smells will ever go away

Years after it started operating, odour complaints about the $775-million McLoughlin Point Wastewater Treatment Plant continue to come in. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
Victoria has been ranked the third most expensive place to live in Canada. Pictured is Victoria’s Inner Harbour. (Black Press Media file photo)

B.C. city ranked as Canada’s third most expensive: study

B.C. is the least affordable province, says study into income and expenses

Victoria has been ranked the third most expensive place to live in Canada. Pictured is Victoria’s Inner Harbour. (Black Press Media file photo)
The remotely operated vehicle ROPOS is lowered into the water during the expedition to the proposed Tang. ɢwan-hacxwiqak-Tsig̱is Marine Protection Area. (Nicole Holman/Fisheries and Oceans Canada)

Expedition explores supervolcanoes and deep-sea firsts in B.C. waters

Footage of superheated geysers, novel images of species behaviour caught off Vancouver Island

The remotely operated vehicle ROPOS is lowered into the water during the expedition to the proposed Tang. ɢwan-hacxwiqak-Tsig̱is Marine Protection Area. (Nicole Holman/Fisheries and Oceans Canada)
The Past Wrongs, Future Choices project will take a global look at the internment and dispossession of Japanese people from across the globe in the mid-20th century. Pictured is the Takamura family at their peach plantation at Itaquera, São Paulo, on Dec. 25, 1949. (Photo courtesy of the Historical Museum of Japanese Immigration in Brazil)

B.C. university spearheads first global probe into Japanese internment

New project builds on major study into Japanese Canadians having property stolen

The Past Wrongs, Future Choices project will take a global look at the internment and dispossession of Japanese people from across the globe in the mid-20th century. Pictured is the Takamura family at their peach plantation at Itaquera, São Paulo, on Dec. 25, 1949. (Photo courtesy of the Historical Museum of Japanese Immigration in Brazil)
BC Hydro CEO Chris O’Riley discusses the Crown corporation’s electrification plans with Greater Victoria business and community leaders at a Chamber of Commerce event on June 28. (Jake Romphf/News Staff)

Electrification and more needed in all sectors, BC Hydro CEO says

Energy efficiency and fuel alternatives will have a role in meeting GHG targets, he says

BC Hydro CEO Chris O’Riley discusses the Crown corporation’s electrification plans with Greater Victoria business and community leaders at a Chamber of Commerce event on June 28. (Jake Romphf/News Staff)
Cody (C.J.) Poole works on the solar-powered cart that’s been his home for months. He and others are hoping to build versions of the carts for their homeless friends living with physical disabilities. The cart and Poole’s other belongings were impounded by bylaw on June 23. (Jake Romphf/News Staff)

Victoria homeless entrepreneur’s efforts stifled as city confiscates his tools

Impounding items breaks recently built trust between unhoused and bylaw, organizer says

Cody (C.J.) Poole works on the solar-powered cart that’s been his home for months. He and others are hoping to build versions of the carts for their homeless friends living with physical disabilities. The cart and Poole’s other belongings were impounded by bylaw on June 23. (Jake Romphf/News Staff)
Victoria is asking the province to do more on boosting biodiversity and protections for renters. (Black Press Media file photo)

Victoria asks B.C. to clamp down on no-fault evictions, rent increases

Capital UBCM resolution also hopes hopes province will boost biodiversity

Victoria is asking the province to do more on boosting biodiversity and protections for renters. (Black Press Media file photo)
Members of the Victoria and Saanich police departments accessed the personal information of a local critic while using a police database without the authority to do so. Pictured are Saanich police Chief Dean Duthie (left) and Victoria police Chief Del Manak. (Black Press Media file photo)

2 B.C. police forces improperly surveyed accountability critic

B.C.’s privacy watchdog found police ran man’s name through database without authority

Members of the Victoria and Saanich police departments accessed the personal information of a local critic while using a police database without the authority to do so. Pictured are Saanich police Chief Dean Duthie (left) and Victoria police Chief Del Manak. (Black Press Media file photo)
Tim Naimi is the director of the University of Victoria’s Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research and the lead of a program that grades Canadian jurisdictions on their alcohol policies. The updated grading recently gave B.C. a failing grade. (Courtesy of Amanda Farrell-Low)

B.C. gets failing grade on alcohol policies from national project

Project’s lead flags alcohol’s impact on public health in call for strengthened regulations

Tim Naimi is the director of the University of Victoria’s Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research and the lead of a program that grades Canadian jurisdictions on their alcohol policies. The updated grading recently gave B.C. a failing grade. (Courtesy of Amanda Farrell-Low)
The annual Moose Hide Campaign march in Victoria on May 11 called for ending violence against women and children. (Jake Romphf/News Staff)

Grand march in B.C. capital renews call for ending violence against women, children

Indigenous-led Moose Hide Campaign fills downtown streets on Thursday

The annual Moose Hide Campaign march in Victoria on May 11 called for ending violence against women and children. (Jake Romphf/News Staff)
The criticized Old Town gallery will reopen to Royal B.C. Museum visitors a year-and-a-half after it was closed in the wake of a report finding the museum promoted the colonization of B.C. (Courtesy Royal B.C. Museum)

‘Critical thinking’ panels added as controversial Royal B.C. Museum exhibits reopens

Many Old Town elements preserved after report found museum promoted colonization of B.C.

The criticized Old Town gallery will reopen to Royal B.C. Museum visitors a year-and-a-half after it was closed in the wake of a report finding the museum promoted the colonization of B.C. (Courtesy Royal B.C. Museum)
Prototype testing with the UVic-led Blind Channel off-grid tidal power project, near West Thurlow Island, is successfully demonstrating the potential for harnessing tidal currents to power off-grid communities. (Courtesy of the Institute for Integrated Energy Systems at UVic)

$84M for UVic-led program looks to accelerate local energy transitions

7-year project aims to see rapid shift to renewable energy in small to mid-sized communities

Prototype testing with the UVic-led Blind Channel off-grid tidal power project, near West Thurlow Island, is successfully demonstrating the potential for harnessing tidal currents to power off-grid communities. (Courtesy of the Institute for Integrated Energy Systems at UVic)
Friends and family welcomed members of HMCS Edmonton back home on April 28 as the ship returned to CFB Esquimalt. The vessel was on a two-and-a-half month deployment involved in a multi-nation narcotics-combatting operation off of Central America. (Jake Romphf/News Staff)

PHOTOS: Loved ones reunite as navy ship returns to Greater Victoria after months at sea

HMCS Edmonton helped make $50-million drug bust during Central American narcotics operation

Friends and family welcomed members of HMCS Edmonton back home on April 28 as the ship returned to CFB Esquimalt. The vessel was on a two-and-a-half month deployment involved in a multi-nation narcotics-combatting operation off of Central America. (Jake Romphf/News Staff)
Researchers from NOAA’s Fisheries Northwest Fisheries Science Center and other scientists have used a new technique to determine the age of southern resident killer whales and other whales. Pictured is a new baby orca in the J-Pod of the Southern Resident Killer Whales, spotted off of the shores of Tofino. (Photo credit: John Forde and Jennifer Steven)

New method helping scientists gauge age of B.C.’s Southern Resident killer whales

Exploring their ‘epigenetic clock’ could identify trends and stressors within whale populations

Researchers from NOAA’s Fisheries Northwest Fisheries Science Center and other scientists have used a new technique to determine the age of southern resident killer whales and other whales. Pictured is a new baby orca in the J-Pod of the Southern Resident Killer Whales, spotted off of the shores of Tofino. (Photo credit: John Forde and Jennifer Steven)
Natural gas and heating oil account for the majority of operating emissions coming from Victoria buildings. (Courtesy of the City of Victoria)

‘Long overdue’: B.C. introducing new powers to limit emissions of new buildings

Zero Carbon Step Code comes into effect May 1

Natural gas and heating oil account for the majority of operating emissions coming from Victoria buildings. (Courtesy of the City of Victoria)