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West Shore & Sooke

traffic, Burnside Road West

TRAFFIC this week: Greater Victoria Oct 6 to 12

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Monday October 6, 2025 to Saturday October 11, 2025 Posted by Island Social Trends | Send us your traffic news by email COLWOOD: Tuesday October 7. - 370 Latoria Blvd. Installation of Sanitary Sewer Flow...
EV charging cords

RCMP: EV charging cables cut & stolen at West Shore commercial...

pumpkin, compost

Compost your pumpkin or take it to a community garden

langford fire hall, community

Langford Fire Hall #1 draws crowd to Sunday open house

Business & Economy

CUPW, rotating strikes

Rotating strike: mail and parcels to start moving Oct 11 by...

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Friday October 10, 2025 | NATIONAL by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends Starting Saturday October 11 at 6 AM local time the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) union will move from a nation-wide strike...
prime minister, mark carney, child care

Family-oriented supports in 2025 federal budget preview: tax filing, school food,...

bcgeu, logo

BCGEU strike: No frontline workers in 11 key BC ministries and...

camosun college

Renewed support for trades at Camosun College with $625,000 donation

Health & Safety

bc legislature, october 8

BC Legislative Assembly votes against bill to stop sex-altering medical intervention...

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Wednesday October 8, 2025 | VICTORIA, BC Political analysis & Editorial | by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends It's one of those issues that really lays bare a stark divide in political beliefs. Or more...
Heart Transplantation: Donation After Circulatory Death

Canada’s first ‘death by circulatory criteria’ heart transplant achieved at Toronto...

drop, cover, hold on, earthquake

Shakeout BC earthquake drill coming up Oct 16

bc sexual violence action plan

Stronger measures to address sexual violence in post-secondary

Environment & Sustainability

farmer, seeds

Seed protections for farmers supported by NDP Agriculture Critic Gord Johns

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Thursday October 9, 2025 | OTTAWA, ON by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends NDP MP and Agriculture critic Gord Johns is urging the federal government to protect farmers’ right to save and develop seeds....
EV charging cords

RCMP: EV charging cables cut & stolen at West Shore commercial...

pumpkin, compost

Compost your pumpkin or take it to a community garden

Susan Gee, Bruce Gray, Wendy Cocchia, Philip Steenkamp, RRU

TD Bank donates $250,000 to Royal Roads University campus farm

Greater Victoria / CRD

royal victoria marathon

Royal Victoria Marathon on Thanksgiving Weekend 2025 sees record registration

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Friday October 10, 2025 | VICTORIA, BC y Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends A record-number of racers are set to take part in the 2025 Royal Victoria Marathon on this Thanksgiving weekend. About...
drop, cover, hold on, earthquake

Shakeout BC earthquake drill coming up Oct 16

traffic, Burnside Road West

TRAFFIC this week: Greater Victoria Oct 6 to 12

Victoria Tech Week, logo

Multiple-venue format for Victoria Tech Week Nov 17 to 21

Politics

Patty Hajdu, Jobs and Families Minister

National School Food Program celebrated by Jobs & Families Minister Hajdu...

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Friday October 10, 2025 | SAANICH, BC by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends Jobs and Families Minister Patty Hajdu is on Vancouver Island this weekend, helping to promote Prime Minister Carney's pre-budget announcement...
prime minister, mark carney, child care

Family-oriented supports in 2025 federal budget preview: tax filing, school food,...

bcgeu, logo

BCGEU strike: No frontline workers in 11 key BC ministries and...

farmer, seeds

Seed protections for farmers supported by NDP Agriculture Critic Gord Johns

Education

prime minister, mark carney, child care

Family-oriented supports in 2025 federal budget preview: tax filing, school food,...

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Friday October 10, 2025 | OTTAWA, ON News analysis by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends Three aspects of the upcoming federal budget were previewed this morning in Ottawa by Prime Minster Mark Carney. In...
camosun college

Renewed support for trades at Camosun College with $625,000 donation

bc legislature, october 8

BC Legislative Assembly votes against bill to stop sex-altering medical intervention...

David Eby, Lisa Beare, child care

Bill 19: Opening up BC school spaces for child care

Food Supply & Healthy Eating

Patty Hajdu, Jobs and Families Minister

National School Food Program celebrated by Jobs & Families Minister Hajdu...

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Friday October 10, 2025 | SAANICH, BC by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends Jobs and Families Minister Patty Hajdu is on Vancouver Island this weekend, helping to promote Prime Minister Carney's pre-budget announcement...
farmer, seeds

Seed protections for farmers supported by NDP Agriculture Critic Gord Johns

pumpkin, compost

Compost your pumpkin or take it to a community garden

Susan Gee, Bruce Gray, Wendy Cocchia, Philip Steenkamp, RRU

TD Bank donates $250,000 to Royal Roads University campus farm

Housing

contractor, electrical, housing

New legislation for prompt payment in BC construction sector

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Tuesday October 7, 2025 | VICTORIA, BC by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends Businesses and workers from the construction sector will benefit from greater certainty with new legislation that will ensure contractors, subcontractors and...
Gregor Robertson

Federal housing minister Gregor Robertson at UBCM: infrastructure, federal land, DCCs

townhomes, Langford

Housing as human right gains momentum at UBCM 2025

urban city mayors, ubcm, marianne alto

BC urban mayors want more provincial funding to address housing gaps...

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