Tug-of-war over school lands | Leslie Campbell

 

Letters to the editor | Focus Readers

 

An insurance policy against the failure of local climate action plans | David Broadland

 

Density on trial | Ross Crockford

 

First stop the dying | Judith Lavoie

 

The vanishing ancient forests of Vancouver Island | Stephen Hume

 

Let the herring live | Briony Penn

 

DON'T MENTION LNG! | Russ Francis

 

Demand answers about the drugs you are prescribed | Alan Cassels

 

The Johnson Street Bridge undergoes one safety review after another | Ross Crockford

 

Deborah Tilby, a painter's painter | Kate Cino

 

The last picture show: Bert Vandergugten | Mollie Kaye

 

Hermann's marches onwards—and upstairs—on View Street | Mollie Kaye

 

Puente Theatre 30 years on | Monica Prendergast

 

Victoria society's "service engine now" light is flashing with bright urgency | Gene Miller

 

Why are we in trouble? | Maleea Acker

 

Climate change in now top-of-mind | Trudy Duivenvoorden Mitic

 

Strong sanctions needed for destroying public records | Leslie Campbell

 

Letters to the editor | Focus Readers

 

Behind the emergency ward curtain | Monika Ullmann

 

Canadians increasingly hate each other over politics. Here's one thing we can do to reverse that trend. | David Broadland

 

Are local voters shifting to the Greens? | Judith Lavoie

 

The Cowichan River: loving & logging it to death | Stephen Hume

 

Is there any demand for Alberta bitumen in Asia? | Briony Penn

 

Fabricating jobs and hastening climate catastrophe | Russ Francis

 

Dr Joanna Moncrieff comments on antidepressants and the myth of the "chemical imbalance" | Alan Cassels

 

In Victoria, no one is watching the watchers | Barabara Julian

 

The new Johnson Street Bridge broke down after little more than a year of service. What else did the project's leadership bequeath future taxpayers? | David Broadland

 

Eunmi Conacher: drama, passion and control at the tip of her brush | Kate Cino

 

 

James and his giant peach add sparkle to Victoria | Mollie Kaye

 

How well do Victoria theatre companies incorporate gender equity and diversity? | Monica Prendergast

 

 

Ecocide cometh | Gene Miller

 

Harry Drage: saving forests and removing invasives in Saanich | Maleea Acker

 

 

Tired of being used by the corporate world? Revolt by exercising the common sense muscle. | Trudy Duivenvoorden Mitic

 

An airport in our midst | Leslie Campbell

 

Letters | Focus Readers

 

Did the mayors obstruct the Elsner investigation? | David Broadland

 

More entertainment, less art | Ross Crockford

 

Old growth in the crosshairs | Judith Lavoie

 

Fun and loafing in the BC public service | Russ Francis

 

Is our imminent peril virtually certain or not? | Briony Penn

 

Not your grandpa's wildfires | Stephen Hume

 

Rare but serious side effects of "Cipro" | Alan Cassels

 

Dylan Thomas and his sacred geometry go surfing | Kate Cino

 

Susannah Adams, jazz vocalist and composer | Mollie Kaye

 

Water torture | Gene Miller

 

A place of refuge | Maleea Acker

 

Wanted: real talk in pivotal times | Trudy Duivenvoorden Mitic

 

Behind the curtains at Victoria City Hall | Leslie Campbell

 

Letters to the editor | Focus Readers

 

The mayors' missing Elsner investigation emails have been found—all 271 of them | David Broadland

 

Is recycling enough? Or should we ban some plastics completely? | Ross Crockford

 

Housing security elusive for Victoria renters | Judith Lavoie

 

LNG Canada's lobbying wins $6-billion-plus payout | Russ Francis

 

A forestry conference invited Forests Minister Doug Donaldson to give a keynote address. He talked but didn't listen. | Briony Penn

 

Shoal Point legal battle raises question about lead safety of Victoria's drinking water | David Broadland

 

How is a metals manufacturing plant in the midst of a fish-bearing estuary even possible? | Stephen Hume

 

Whistleblower Noah Nathan: broken bones are hiding in plain sight of heartburn meds | Alan Cassels

 

Information contained in a 2013 AECOM study suggests engineers have inadvertently designed a seismic vulnerability into Victoria's new $110 million bridge | David Broadland

 

Hashim Hannoon, an immigrant from Iraq, proves the creative spirit can rise above the brutal ugliness of war | Kate Cino

 

The Bateman Foundation's new vision comes into focus | Maleea Acker

 

Aaron Scoones is hearing things | Mollie Kaye

 

Hapax Theatre has ambitions for a long life in Victoria | Monica Prendergast

 

Do those of us who behave immodestly do so because we resent our mortality? | Gene Miller

 

A molting elephant seal on Gonzales Beach offered lessons in nature and an occasion for friendship | Maleea Acker

 

Patrick Lane reminded us that it's in our gardens that wisdom and humility are nurtured | Trudy Duivenvoorden Mitic

 

Money still skewing local elections | Leslie Campbell

 

Letters to the editor | Focus Readers

 

Are local "climate-crisis" decision-makers making things better? Or worse?  | David Broadland

 

Unfinished business | Ross Crockford

 

Is the City's proposed lawsuit against fossil fuel companies grandstanding or grand gesture? | Judith Lavoie

 

At the legislative trough | Russ Francis

 

The case for ending the herring fishery | Stephen Hume

 

Up close and personal floral portraits | Kate Cino

 

Victoria Arts Council celebrates 50 years | Leslie Campbell

 

Sari Alesh | Mollie Kaye

 

The positive force of theatre | Monica Prendergast

 

Esi Edugyan talks about writing fiction | Pauline Holdstock

 

Heaven? Press 35. | Gene Miller

 

For the love of bats | Maleea Acker

 

As the tipping point nears | Trudy Duivenvoorden Mitic

 

Victoria's diminishing urban forest | Leslie Campbell

 

Letters to the editor | FOCUS readers

 

Sex, lies and triple-deleted emails | David Broadland

 

Downtown residents question City of Victoria's $34-million deal for new fire hall | Ross Crockford

 

Environmental assessment reconsidered | Judith Lavoie

 

CleanBC plan looks nice onscreen, but has serious problems | Russ Francis

 

Logging madness continues | Briony Penn

 

Seniors targeted with expensive high-dose flu vaccine | Alan Cassels

 

Bridge builder sues City for bad design | David Broadland

 

Ray Ward's light of day | Aaren Madden

 

The art and life of Elizabeth Yeend Duer | Kate Cino

 

Hot jazz on Broad Street | Mollie Kaye

 

Bears signifies the resurgence of Indigenous theatre in Canada  | Monica Prendergast

 

Patricia Roy's The Collectors | Stephen Hume

 

Downtown has it all-ish | Gene Miller

 

Julian Anderson and Cuthbert Holmes Park | Maleea Acker

 

First the bag, now the bottle | Trudy Duivenvoorden Mitic

 

FOCUS: Still blow'n in the wind after 30 years | Leslie Campbell

 

Orcapocalypse | Stephen Hume

 

The mayors' million-dollar cover-up | David Broadland

 

Great politics vs good governance | Ross Crockford

 

Letters to the editor | FOCUS readers

 

Tent cities get results | Judith Lavoie

 

Is LNG Canada already a stranded asset? | Russ Francis

 

Feds move to divide and conquer local First Nations | Briony Penn

 

The horrors of proportional representation? | Russ Francis

 

Creating order out of chaos | Kate Cino

 

Rockin' out to ancient music | Mollie Kaye

 

How history haunts the theatre | Monica Prendergast

 

Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age | Amy Reiswig

 

The homeless need homes | Gene Miller

 

Robin Hood's dream | Maleea Acker

 

Everything we do counts | Trudy Duivenvoorden Mitic

 

Were Mayor Helps and Mayor Desjardins defamed by Police Complaint Commissioner Stan Lowe? Or did Lowe pull his punches? | David Broadland

 

Will Victoria's Old Town become a façade? | Leslie Campbell

 

Landslide Lisa's record as mayor of Victoria | David Broadland

 

Will Crystal Pool become an election issue? Candidates say "Yes." | Ross Crockford

 

Fish farm activists complain of intimidation | Judith Lavoie

 

As LNG Canada's Final Investment Decision looms, a fatal error sits stubbornly at the heart of the government's case for LNG | Russ Francis

 

BC's climate action must address three elephants in the room | Jens Wieting

 

Can we trust health-related media to deliver clean, clear health advice? | Allan Cassels & Jim Wright

 

Can we undo, or fix, the 17-year-old Professional Reliance Model used to regulate BC's resource industries? | Briony Penn

 

What does my neighbour's car mean? | David Broadland

 

Letters to the editor | FOCUS readers

 

The company for which Victoria MP Murray Rankin testified as an expert witness won a NAFTA tribunal ruling in May that may cost Canadians $580 million | Russ Francis

 

How did City of Victoria councillors vote on development issues over the past four years? | Leslie Campbell

 

Brent Lynch aims to capture fleeting moments of special grace. | Kate Cino

 

Performance venues are desperately needed—what about your place? | Mollie Kaye

 

Moving beyond (dead) white man syndrome | Monica Prendergast

 

Authors Elizabeth Woodworth and Dr Peter Carter see climate change in terms of a planetary emergency needing global mobilization | Amy Reiswig

 

Rome imploded because of a loss of purpose, identity and moral vigour. What are we doing to avoid that? | Gene Miller

 

Marion Cummings indomitable spirit | Maleea Acker

 

The perplexing tendency to ignore reality | Trudy Duivenvoorden Mitic

 

Luxury condo developers can't fix housing affordability | Leslie Campbell

 

Our readers have their say on Fort Street development, Trans Mountain, electoral reform, Crystal Pool and more | FOCUS readers

 

FOIed emails show engineers forgot about a serious flaw on Victoria's new bridge until it was too late to fix properly. Then they forgot that they had forgotten. | David Broadland

 

Who are the real pipeline fanatics? | Leslie Campbell

 

The people at the dirty end of the pipeline | Judith Lavoie

 

The 100-year fishing war | Briony Penn

 

Vancouver's role in the chinook-sewage-orca death spiral | David Broadland

 

Grant Leier: Celebrating life and colour | Kate Cino 

 

Calvin Hunt's first solo exhibition | Aaren Madden

 

Coming full circus | Mollie Kaye 

 

A site-specific play with style, substance and scares | Monica Prendergast

 

Eve Joseph's Quarrels: Windows into the weird and wonderful | Amy Reiswig

 

Summer reading picks | Amy Reiswig

 

Saantoria? Vicnich? Insanitoria? More thoughts on the perils of amalgamation. | Gene Miller

 

Digging, planting and watering together produces food, strengthens community and helps the bees help us. | Maleea Acker

 

Connecting the dots at the country fair | Trudy Duivenvoorden Mitic