Mastodawn

I propagated these deep pink #roses.
Blooms from a cutting I took from a private Oak Bay garden, 2 years ago.

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Ms. Que Banh 3h ago

Currently experiencing a beans explosion 😀👩‍🌾
Green & yellow #beans - galore. This is the start of not buying any beans for months season.

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Local Headlines - CivicInfo BC 6h ago

#VictoriaBC - Victoria creates new industrial zones to protect businesses, attract new ones https://www.timescolonist.com/business/victoria-creates-new-industrial-zones-to-protect-businesses-attract-new-ones-12477008

Victoria creates new industrial zones to protect businesses, attract new ones

The new zones will replace about 30 existing zones for industrial land, while tweaks to the marine industrial zone will allow a broader range of activities.

Times Colonist

Local Headlines - CivicInfo BC 6h ago

#VictoriaBC - Victoria to go ahead with non-binding amalgamation question https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/victoria-to-go-ahead-with-non-binding-amalgamation-question-12476505

Victoria to go ahead with non-binding amalgamation question

Council voted 5-4 to add the question: “Do you support Saanich and Victoria becoming one municipality?” to the ballot this fall, following a similar move by Saanich.

Times Colonist

Arbutus 🇨🇦19h ago

The TC has a long story about the skid row on Pandora and the continuing physical and mental misery there https://www.timescolonist.com/islander/slow-motion-crisis-the-toll-of-toxic-drugs-goes-beyond-overdose-deaths-12462955 #yyj #victoriaBC

Slow-motion crisis: The toll of toxic drugs goes beyond overdose deaths

Drugs get the headlines. But it’s the repeat drug poisonings and emergence of once-rare diseases that alarm health-care providers and first responders the most.

Times Colonist

Thomas Guerrero 1d ago

There is a new article this morning on Sidewalking Victoria. This is part 2 of my look at the redevelopment of church properties and is on the project at the First Met Church on Quadra. Have a read and let me know your thoughts!

#yyj #victoriabc #urbanism #development

https://www.sidewalkingvictoria.com/blog/2026/6/27/steeples-to-civic-spaces-the-redevelopment-of-victorias-church-properties-part-2-first-metropolitan

Steeples to Civic Spaces: The Redevelopment of Victoria's Church Properties – Part 2 – First Metropolitan — Sidewalking Victoria

Last month I wrote an article on the upcoming review by the City of Victoria of the Christ Church Cathedral redevelopment plans. You can read that article here if you missed it. As an update to that article, the project passed the Committee of the Whole making way for the church to start to look f

Sidewalking Victoria