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Victoria’s Urban Search & Rescue team preps for the big one

Police claim ’no just cause’ to link assault to victim’s sexual orientation

Budget secrets revealed — and terrible secrets emerge

Students and environmentalists protest development of Juan De Fuca trail

Sexing up BC politics, getting rid of medical-cannabis raids, surveying homelessness and more.

AIDS Vancouver Island (AVI) is suffering a little heat from media after jumping on board with a U.K. campaign that’s doing it’s damndest to raise awareness around drug stigmas.

Days after an election that saw environmentalists help the Liberals win a third term in government, a senior member of that movement made a policy pitch to the premier’s chief of staff.

Three weeks from now, BC Liberal Party members will elect their next leader and our next premier. But, so far, the three lead contenders for that job have said little about their plans for the government’s biggest spending ministries.

By the time this paper is out, so will the official word on how the recall turned out for Oak Bay-Gordon Head MLA Ida Chong. But with only a couple days left on the trail, it looks like recall campaigners are doing a quick switch in tactics. The new message: it’s not winning or losing that counts, it’s how many signatures you could get to play the game.

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