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West Shore & Sooke

breakfast with santa

Sooke pancake breakfast Dec 6 & Santa Parade Dec 7

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Friday December 5, 2025 | SOOKE, BC by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends Breakfast with Santa will be held in Sooke on Saturday December 6. It's a free event for kids and families...

Business & Economy

Mark Carney, Claudia Sheinbaum, Donald Trump, FIFA

Carney, Trump and Sheinbaum meet privately after FIFA announcement

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Friday December 5, 2025 | VICTORIA, BC by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney drew the first ceremonial ball in the warmup to the FIFA World Cup 2026 Final...

Health & Safety

Dana Lajeunesse, NDP, MLA

Motor Vehicle Act change would revoke licence prior to reckless-driving trial

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Sunday November 30, 2025 | VICTORIA, BC by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends Reckless driving injures people and takes lives. This past week, BC NDP MLA Dana Lajeunesse introduced a private members bill that...

Environment & Sustainability

power outage, langford, colwood, metchosin, dec 2025

Windy day power outage impacts Metchosin, Royal Bay, south Langford

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Friday December 5, 2025 | LANGFORD, BC by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends UPDATE: As of 7:44 pm - power back on in the Metchosin area. Power still out (for 1,078 customers) in...

Greater Victoria / CRD

finance minister, brenda bailey

Dec 4 vigil at BC Parliament front steps for 36th Action...

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Thursday December 4, 2025 | VICTORIA, BC by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends Update after the vigil - photos: Finance Minister Brenda Bailey was a student at McGill in Montreal in 1989 when the...

Politics

Mark Carney, Claudia Sheinbaum, Donald Trump, FIFA

Carney, Trump and Sheinbaum meet privately after FIFA announcement

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Friday December 5, 2025 | VICTORIA, BC by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney drew the first ceremonial ball in the warmup to the FIFA World Cup 2026 Final...

Education

governor general, award winners

2025 Governor General’s Academic Medal awarded to three SD62 grads

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Tuesday November 25, 2025 | LANGFORD, BC by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends The Governor General's Academic Award is a longstanding tradition in Canada to recognize outstanding academic achievement of students in Canada. At the...

Artificial Intelligence

carney, UAE, media scrum

Deepening bilateral engagement and economic cooperation between Canada and UAE

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Sunday November 23, 2025 | OTTAWA, ON by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends Prime Minister Mark Carney met with the President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed...

Food Supply & Healthy Eating

FortisBC, City of Langford

Giving Tuesday: FortisBC & City of Langford support Goldstream Food Bank

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Tuesday December 2, 2025 | LANGFORD, BC by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends FortisBC executives and senior staff spent a chunk of today at the Goldstream Food Bank in Langford. Together with City of...

Housing

housing targets, District of Saanich

Saanich reports 442 net new housing units in past year

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Wednesday November 5, 2025 | SAANICH, BC by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends A Housing Target Progress Report by the District of Saanich outlines the municipality's progress to reach provincial housing targets and support...

Arts & Entertainment

Mark Carney, Claudia Sheinbaum, Donald Trump, FIFA

Carney, Trump and Sheinbaum meet privately after FIFA announcement

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Friday December 5, 2025 | VICTORIA, BC by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney drew the first ceremonial ball in the warmup to the FIFA World Cup 2026 Final...

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