Sooke News Mirror

Proposed fire dispatch deal could save Sooke thousands of dollars

New dispatch needed after Langford drops out of CRD service

Small Eustace Road development gets green light

Development includes retail and housing units

Sooke man does ‘happy dance’ after scratching a $100,000 Set for Life win

Colin Davidson plans to renovate his home and invest in his daughter's education

  • Jun 15, 2021

Editorial: Don’t feed the bears, deliberately or otherwise

We'd like to beg people not to deliberately feed the bears

  • Jun 14, 2021

LETTER: Appropriate time to change spelling of Sooke

Now is an opportune time to change the English spelling of Sooke to its indigenous spelling. I have always thought that that would be a far better rendition than Sooke, which has a rather sad dictionary meaning.

  • Jun 14, 2021

LETTER: Fairy Creek ‘land defenders’ must leave and take their mess with them

After reading many articles, letters, and opinions regarding the Fairy Creek blockade, I feel compelled to offer my comments.

  • Jun 14, 2021

LETTER: John Horgan has done a good job as premier

Re: Premier not so green after all (Letters, June 10)

  • Jun 14, 2021

LETTER: Unwanted activists should go home

It is upsetting to see the media portraying activists and self-proclaimed land defenders in a positive light.

  • Jun 14, 2021

FITNESS: Diet, exercise key to good health

In North America, 1 in 10 people is diabetic and 1 in 3 is pre-diabetic

LETTER: Politicians mysteriously quiet on Fairy Creek

Regina vs. Ancient Rainforest Preservationists: Silence pervades our locally elected councillors, CRD directors and chamber of commerce leaders concerning the new War in the Woods erupting in Premier John Horgan's own backyard - Fairy Creek. Not a word has been spoken in support or against this growing international news story.

  • Jun 11, 2021

Sooke hosting First Shift hockey program

Hockey program for beginners starts in October

LETTER: Herbicide use on school grounds questioned

According to the June 3 letter from Rosemarie Townsend about seeing a groundskeeper spraying a herbicide on the edge of Sooke Elementary School property, she was rightfully concerned. Hats off to her for taking the time to let us all know.

  • Jun 10, 2021

Lights, camera, COVID compliance

How Sooke high school students staged a musical during a pandemic

  • Jun 10, 2021

Behind the line at Fairy Creek: Inside B.C.’s old growth forest battleground

There's surprising activity happening behind the lines at the Fairy Creek old-growth protest sites

  • Jun 9, 2021

EDITORIAL: Buried history comes to light in residential school graves

The shocking deaths reveal how racist Canadian society was and is against indigenous people

  • Jun 7, 2021

LETTER: Protesters’ moral compass goes askew

So out at Fairy Creek, people old enough to know better show young people that it is moral to be violent as long as your emotions suggest your religion is correct.

  • Jun 7, 2021

Highway 14 traffic delays pave way for work plan review

Recent delays left Sooke commuters in lineup for up to three hours

LETTER: Premier not so green after all

Reader says John Horgan not a leader on old-growth tree issue

  • Jun 4, 2021

LETTER: Rumble strips could make road safer

One of the challenges while driving to Sooke from Victoria until the mid-1980s was the railroad crossing coming down the hill just before Saseenos.

  • Jun 4, 2021

Sailing association expanding youth programs

New dock system will soon be in operation at Sooke Bay Marine

  • Jun 4, 2021