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Danielle Pope zips through the treeline at Adrena Line Zipline Adventure Tours.

West Coast Wild: Zipline

Danielle Pope takes a flying leap through the treetops with Adrena Line Zipline Adventure Tours

Danielle Pope zips through the treeline at Adrena Line Zipline Adventure Tours.

Get crabby in Port Angeles

12th annual Dungeness Crab and Seafood Festival gets cracking in Port Angeles, Wash, Oct. 11 to 13.

Emily Caple (left) will run the AnarKID’S space at the eighth annual Victoria Anarchist Bookfair. While she holds a selection of kids books, bookfair organizer Comrade Black displays some rare and political works that will be featured at the event.

Festival of anarchy

Anarchy will rise again this year, as the Festival of Anarchy bleeds into the eighth-annual Victoria Anarchist Bookfair, Sept. 14 and 15.

Emily Caple (left) will run the AnarKID’S space at the eighth annual Victoria Anarchist Bookfair. While she holds a selection of kids books, bookfair organizer Comrade Black displays some rare and political works that will be featured at the event.
Danielle Pope and paddleboard guide Joshua Periard.

Modern-day Moses

Paddleboarding gives new meaning to walking on water

Danielle Pope and paddleboard guide Joshua Periard.
Danielle Pope goes on a hike of Francis-King Regional Park in Saanich with John Crouch

West Coast Wild: Hiking

West Coast hiking philosophy sets a new stride at Francis/King Regional Park

Danielle Pope goes on a hike of Francis-King Regional Park in Saanich with John Crouch
JR Robinson is the owner of Ditch Records and CDs.

MERCHANT OF COOL: Ditch Records and CDs

JR Robinson, owner of Ditch Records plays a big part in the local vinyl revival

JR Robinson is the owner of Ditch Records and CDs.
First time kayaker Danielle Pope gets her paddles wet.

WEST COAST WILD: TIPPING A PADDLE

First time kayaker gets wet

First time kayaker Danielle Pope gets her paddles wet.
Pride is about more than just fun and games, but this year’s event week promises plenty of those as well.

THE WEEK — June 20: Keep up the Pride, Victoria

Keep up the Pride, Victoria, no need to just "brew" at home, calling all unwanted fruit and more...

Pride is about more than just fun and games, but this year’s event week promises plenty of those as well.
Maya Fischer (right) and her mother Linda Cirella have vowed to stop selling Girl Guide cookies until the national organization replaces genetically modified ingredients with natural ones. Fischer’s online petition has nearly 800 signatures in support.

Girl asks Guides to live by group’s own motto

Young Victoria Girl Guide petitions the national organization to take GMOs out of cookies

Maya Fischer (right) and her mother Linda Cirella have vowed to stop selling Girl Guide cookies until the national organization replaces genetically modified ingredients with natural ones. Fischer’s online petition has nearly 800 signatures in support.
DANIELLE POPE: Why we walk — to build strength

DANIELLE POPE: Cheers to 39 years

Three years ago this summer, I entered the world of Monday. It had been one of those publications I’d read studiously since...

DANIELLE POPE: Why we walk — to build strength
About 40 per cent of all plastics created end up as single-use packaging that quickly meets the landfill.

THE WEEK — June 13: Menu: plastic ocean soup

On the menu: plastic ocean soup, Get your Stigma-screen out and naked bikers flash city

About 40 per cent of all plastics created end up as single-use packaging that quickly meets the landfill.
Jill Goodson, Victoria’s only shoe shiner, had to fight through city red tape last year for her trade, which didn’t quite fit the requirements for a busker (which can’t offer a service) or business (which can’t operate on public property) licence. Thanks to the support from her community and one local business, Goodson is now celebrating her first summer anniversary in the trade, and is working on a historical shoe-shining project.

Sole Sister

Victoria shoe shiner celebrates her historical year of scrubbing

Jill Goodson, Victoria’s only shoe shiner, had to fight through city red tape last year for her trade, which didn’t quite fit the requirements for a busker (which can’t offer a service) or business (which can’t operate on public property) licence. Thanks to the support from her community and one local business, Goodson is now celebrating her first summer anniversary in the trade, and is working on a historical shoe-shining project.
DANIELLE POPE: Why we walk — to build strength

DANIELLE POPE: The battle of trying ‘new’

Studies tell us trying new things is good for the brain...

DANIELLE POPE: Why we walk — to build strength
Amazonian treatment gives answer

Amazonian treatment gives answer

Ayahuasca research shows unparalleled addictions support

Amazonian treatment gives answer
Author Jessica Kluthe traced her grandmother's roots.

Birthing a new breed of non-fiction

Rosina, the Midwife traces historic roots of an immigrant family and the woman who started it all

Author Jessica Kluthe traced her grandmother's roots.
Ann-Marie Millington (left) was featured in the Little Spirits Garden adverts, after her loss inspired her to join the project.

Little Spirits to be remembered

Garden Memorial to open this fall with help from walk

Ann-Marie Millington (left) was featured in the Little Spirits Garden adverts, after her loss inspired her to join the project.
Five Victoria women, Miranda Pidwerbetsky (left), Kenzie Hawksworth, Diondra Hall, Megan Tronson and Nicola Peffers will strut publicly to prove clothing is not consent in the city’s first ever SlutWalk — a movement that has stampeded North America since 2011, when a Toronto police officer suggested that, to avoid assault, women shouldn’t dress like “sluts.” Join the walk Sun., June 9, 11am at the legislature.

The Invisible War

SlutWalk exposes Victoria to the most provocative political movement yet

Five Victoria women, Miranda Pidwerbetsky (left), Kenzie Hawksworth, Diondra Hall, Megan Tronson and Nicola Peffers will strut publicly to prove clothing is not consent in the city’s first ever SlutWalk — a movement that has stampeded North America since 2011, when a Toronto police officer suggested that, to avoid assault, women shouldn’t dress like “sluts.” Join the walk Sun., June 9, 11am at the legislature.
DANIELLE POPE: Why we walk — to build strength

DANIELLE POPE: Why we walk — to build strength

Victoria is a walking city. Only moments after I was first in the area, I stepped into my first walk for insert-your-issue-here.

DANIELLE POPE: Why we walk — to build strength
You aren’t fooling anyone by staring at your crotch while driving, say police, but that glance could be fatal.

THE WEEK — June 6: The new killer: crotches

The new killer: crotches; and a peek into Anney's Closet

You aren’t fooling anyone by staring at your crotch while driving, say police, but that glance could be fatal.
Some cruise ships got a nod for dirty achievements, thanks to the James Bay Neighbourhood Association.

THE WEEK — May 30: ‘Dirty’ cruise ships win big

‘Dirty’ cruise ships win big, synagogue offers a frocking good time and Monday says a Fehr goodbye.

Some cruise ships got a nod for dirty achievements, thanks to the James Bay Neighbourhood Association.