Victoria

KNOX – Empress reigns on haunted-hotel list thanks to Lizzie the chambermaid — among others

January 22, 2023 // 0 Comments

CHAMBERMAID LIZZIE McGRATH stepped onto the Empress Hotel fire escape to say her rosary, just as she did every night before retiring to her sixth-storey room. Alas, what [Continue]

KNOX – How do we contain auto traffic downtown without cutting off access?

February 13, 2022 // 0 Comments

CALL IT NUMBER NERD Nirvana. Or, depending on your perspective, an alternative to NyQuil. When Statistics Canada unveiled its first set of findings from the 2021 census [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Plastic bag fiasco proves need for recall for city councils

July 13, 2019 // 2 Comments

DO YOU EVER WISH there was a way to throw the rascals out without waiting for the next election? There is at the provincial level, but not municipal. Maybe it’s time for an [Continue]

BUSINESS – Victoria City council is the worst, but Vancouver comes close

July 9, 2019 // 0 Comments

By CHRIS GARDNER President, Independent Contractors and Businesses Association IN THE RACE for worst city council in British Columbia, Victoria gets most of the media buzz. [Continue]

KNOX – Beyond politics, the grim reality of police cuts

June 30, 2019 // 0 Comments

IT WOULD BE TEMPTING to dismiss the latest glumness out of the Victoria Police Department as political posturing. Tempting, but incorrect. Don’t get me wrong. VicPD [Continue]

KNOX – Dr. Zhivago meets Fargo – Victoria finally gets a taste of winter

February 10, 2019 // 1 Comment

HERE IS THE ULTIMATE tragedy for a child: A snow day — on a Friday no less! — that isn’t. It was at 11 a.m., around the time that many West Shore drivers were figuring [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Proposed lawsuit against oil companies on climate is absurd

February 5, 2019 // 6 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. VICTORIA IS FAST BECOMING the whack-job capital of Canada, if it isn’t already. There’s just too much silly news coming out of there to [Continue]

KNOX – Friendliness of locals an unexpected treat for visitors

August 19, 2018 // 1 Comment

FLORIDA’S CARLOS MORALES was driving the unfamiliar streets of Victoria on Monday when he almost collided with another man. Did the man get mad? No, he apologized to [Continue]

Knox — Talking about amalgamation as hard as doing it

August 17, 2014 // 1 Comment

Jack Knox is a former city editor at The Kamloops Daily News who moved on to Victoria many years ago to write for the Time-Colonist. This week’s column, about the [Continue]