Saanich

University of Victoria astronomer Spencer Bialek takes in the stars at Sombrio beach. The PhD student is studying how to mitigate the impact that hundreds of thousands of new satellites are expected to have on astronomy observations. (Courtesy of Spencer Bialek)

B.C. astronomer studies satellites putting galactic archaeology at risk

Thousands of satellites planned for orbit could hinder observations of space: UVic researcher

 

The University of Victoria is home to the world’s largest Transgender Archives. (Graphic from Aaron Devor).

B.C. attracting researchers as home to world’s largest transgender archives

Visitors come from all over the world to study the archives at the University of Victoria

 

Darren Gowen, one of three men convicted in a gruesome 1990 double murder was granted a six-month day parole extension. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg file photo)

Parole extended for B.C. man who planned 1990 killings of mom, grandma

Darren (Huenemann) Gowen is one of three men convicted in the gruesome 1990 double murder

 

Power To Be’s site on Prospect Lake, which is leased from the Steele family for $1 a year. (Photo courtesy of Power To Be)

Project brings nature accessibility to site of former B.C. golf course

Power To Be reimagines former Prospect Lake golf course

  • Jul 7, 2023
Power To Be’s site on Prospect Lake, which is leased from the Steele family for $1 a year. (Photo courtesy of Power To Be)
Cargo containers are unloaded from the Maersk Stockholm ship with gantry cranes while docked at port in Vancouver. (Black Press Media File Photo)

B.C. school studies Canada’s first zero-carbon emissions shipping corridor

‘This project will be contributing to the global discussion of where shipping is going’

Cargo containers are unloaded from the Maersk Stockholm ship with gantry cranes while docked at port in Vancouver. (Black Press Media File Photo)
Longtime leading Canadian player, Eric Dunn of Saanich is among the first inductees to the national foosball hall of fame. (Christine van Reeuwyk/News Staff)

VIDEO: Meet B.C. man named Canada’s first-ever foosball hall-of-famer

Saanich’s Eric Dunn first Canadian to reach the rank of pro-master – the top level on tour

Longtime leading Canadian player, Eric Dunn of Saanich is among the first inductees to the national foosball hall of fame. (Christine van Reeuwyk/News Staff)
Members of the Victoria and Saanich police departments accessed the personal information of a local critic while using a police database without the authority to do so. Pictured are Saanich police Chief Dean Duthie (left) and Victoria police Chief Del Manak. (Black Press Media file photo)

2 B.C. police forces improperly surveyed accountability critic

B.C.’s privacy watchdog found police ran man’s name through database without authority

Members of the Victoria and Saanich police departments accessed the personal information of a local critic while using a police database without the authority to do so. Pictured are Saanich police Chief Dean Duthie (left) and Victoria police Chief Del Manak. (Black Press Media file photo)
A former Saanich IT manager has been accused in a civil lawsuit from B.C.’s attorney general of wrongfully copying and distributing municipal records, including ones containing personal information. (Black Press Media file photo)

Ex-IT manager accused of nabbing Saanich municipal files, sharing personal data

Files deal with son’s neighbour dispute as B.C.’s attorney general sues over thousands of documents

  • May 30, 2023
A former Saanich IT manager has been accused in a civil lawsuit from B.C.’s attorney general of wrongfully copying and distributing municipal records, including ones containing personal information. (Black Press Media file photo)
Tim Naimi is the director of the University of Victoria’s Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research and the lead of a program that grades Canadian jurisdictions on their alcohol policies. The updated grading recently gave B.C. a failing grade. (Courtesy of Amanda Farrell-Low)

B.C. gets failing grade on alcohol policies from national project

Project’s lead flags alcohol’s impact on public health in call for strengthened regulations

Tim Naimi is the director of the University of Victoria’s Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research and the lead of a program that grades Canadian jurisdictions on their alcohol policies. The updated grading recently gave B.C. a failing grade. (Courtesy of Amanda Farrell-Low)
Jessica Tuomela with her golden retriever Lucy, who she has been training to work as a discriminant scent-trailing canine. (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)

Blind Paralympian finds missing Greater Victoria resident with the help of her dog

Lucy, a discriminant scent-trailing canine, found a missing person around Elk Lake

Jessica Tuomela with her golden retriever Lucy, who she has been training to work as a discriminant scent-trailing canine. (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)
The 12-and-a-half metre totem pole carved by about 160 inmates which stands outside the Vancouver Island Regional Corrections Centre in Saanich. (Austin Westphal/News Staff)

Inmates say totem pole they helped carve at B.C. jail a catalyst for remarkable change

About 160 at Vancouver Island Regional Corrections Centre participated in first-of-its-kind project

The 12-and-a-half metre totem pole carved by about 160 inmates which stands outside the Vancouver Island Regional Corrections Centre in Saanich. (Austin Westphal/News Staff)
Prototype testing with the UVic-led Blind Channel off-grid tidal power project, near West Thurlow Island, is successfully demonstrating the potential for harnessing tidal currents to power off-grid communities. (Courtesy of the Institute for Integrated Energy Systems at UVic)

$84M for UVic-led program looks to accelerate local energy transitions

7-year project aims to see rapid shift to renewable energy in small to mid-sized communities

Prototype testing with the UVic-led Blind Channel off-grid tidal power project, near West Thurlow Island, is successfully demonstrating the potential for harnessing tidal currents to power off-grid communities. (Courtesy of the Institute for Integrated Energy Systems at UVic)
Police seized more than $100,000 in vaping products being sold to youth at local schools after executing a search warrant at a Saanich business Friday (March 6). (Courtesy Saanich Police Department)

$100K in vaping products sold to kids via Snapchat on Vancouver Island seized

Federal Tobacco and Vaping Products Act prohibits sale of vaping products to anyone under age 18

Police seized more than $100,000 in vaping products being sold to youth at local schools after executing a search warrant at a Saanich business Friday (March 6). (Courtesy Saanich Police Department)
A class action suit has been certified against the former Saanich grocery store assistant manager who secretly filmed his naked coworkers in the bathroom, while the Red Barn grocery location is also named after being accused of a toxic and sexualized work environment. (Black Press Media file photo)

Lawsuit targets B.C. grocery store and man who secretly filmed naked co-workers

Plaintiffs accuse Red Barn location’s former management of enabling a misogynist workplace

A class action suit has been certified against the former Saanich grocery store assistant manager who secretly filmed his naked coworkers in the bathroom, while the Red Barn grocery location is also named after being accused of a toxic and sexualized work environment. (Black Press Media file photo)
A Saanich school teacher has been disciplined for his behaviour. (Pixabay photo) Classroom chairs (Pixabay photo)

B.C. teacher disciplined for telling Grade 3 kids he would ‘rip out’ their vocal cords

Teacher also said non-verbal children are ‘dumb’

A Saanich school teacher has been disciplined for his behaviour. (Pixabay photo) Classroom chairs (Pixabay photo)
Convicted of conspiring to kill his mother and grandmother more than 30 years ago, Darren Gowen – formerly Huenemann – is on day parole, extended six more months in a recent parole board decision. (Parole Board of Canada photo)

B.C. man who planned gruesome murders of mom, grandmother gets extended day parole

Darren Huenemann was 18 when he convinced his classmates to kill his family over inheritance

Convicted of conspiring to kill his mother and grandmother more than 30 years ago, Darren Gowen – formerly Huenemann – is on day parole, extended six more months in a recent parole board decision. (Parole Board of Canada photo)
The College of Massage Therapists of B.C. has handed a 25-year ban to a Saanich massage therapist who secretly videoed women undressing. (Unsplash photo)

25-year ban for former B.C. massage therapist who secretly recorded women disrobing

Gilles-Phillipe Lavoie set up a cell phone to video his patients prior to a massage

The College of Massage Therapists of B.C. has handed a 25-year ban to a Saanich massage therapist who secretly videoed women undressing. (Unsplash photo)
RCMP major crimes Superintendent Sanjaya Wijayakoom speaks during a press conference where the Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit released its investigation findings into the June 28, 2022, Saanich bank shootout. (Jake Romphf/News Staff)

Brothers aimed to kill police, didn’t expect to survive Saanich bank shootout

22-year-old Cowichan Valley brothers were killed in the June 2022 gunbattle outside BMO branch

RCMP major crimes Superintendent Sanjaya Wijayakoom speaks during a press conference where the Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit released its investigation findings into the June 28, 2022, Saanich bank shootout. (Jake Romphf/News Staff)
Saanich police Chief Dean Duthie speaks to the media Wednesday (Dec. 21) following the release of the IIO report into the June 28 shooting incident at a bank in Saanich which left six officer injured and two suspects dead. (Justin Samanski-Langille/News Staff)

Officers called ‘heroes who put lives on the line’ in wake of B.C. bank shootout report

Chiefs say report ‘paints a clear picture’ of what Victoria area officers faced, 4 still recovering

Saanich police Chief Dean Duthie speaks to the media Wednesday (Dec. 21) following the release of the IIO report into the June 28 shooting incident at a bank in Saanich which left six officer injured and two suspects dead. (Justin Samanski-Langille/News Staff)
Police have evacuated one building at the University of Victoria. (Nick Csillag/Twitter)

University of Victoria shooting threat found on bathroom wall sparks evacuation

Saanich police said the threat was written on a bathroom wall in Cornett building

Police have evacuated one building at the University of Victoria. (Nick Csillag/Twitter)