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How Wild Animals Actually Responded to Our COVID Lockdowns: The COVID lockdowns and the subsequent reemergence of humans had some surprising effects ...
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How Wild Animals Actually Responded to Our COVID Lockdowns
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Victoria signals to province: invoice is in the mail: Council has approved $100,000 in stop-gap funding for Our Place to cover operations and a storage facility ...
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Victoria signals to province: invoice is in the mail
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Saanich to charge for yard waste disposal: A flat fee for garden waste drop off, a new curbside 360-litre organics recycling container option ...
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Saanich to charge for yard waste disposal
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Hermann's Upstairs to close this month as operators end lease: Hermann’s Upstairs, along with Hermann’s Lounge, will cease operations on March 31 ...
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Hermann's Upstairs to close this month as operators end lease
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Saanich residents lose $27,000 to grandparent scam: The scam targets seniors, with callers claiming to be a grandchild or other relative who is in trouble and ...
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Saanich residents lose $27,000 to grandparent scam
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Native housing society buying Esquimalt building to protect rentals: Lu’ma Native Housing Society is buying the 16-unit apartment with help from the provincial ...
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Native housing society buying Esquimalt building to protect rentals
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Female police chief in Oak Bay a first for Greater Victoria: Julie Chanin, who was the region’s first female deputy chief in April 2022, takes over as chief on ...
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Female police chief in Oak Bay a first for Greater Victoria
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B.C. to provide $80 million to help farmers cope with drought: DELTA, B.C. — Rancher Werner Stump said spring is usually a "season of optimism" for farmers in ...
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B.C. to provide $80 million to help farmers cope with drought
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Sooke man charged with manslaughter in 2023 death: Adam John Steenbergen has been charged with manslaughter in the death of Michael Leier, a 42-year-old father.
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Sooke man charged with manslaughter in 2023 death
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Megan Thee Stallion To Make Headlining Return At DC’s Broccoli City Festival — Joins Line Up Featuring Victoria Monét And PARTYNEXTDOOR
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Megan Thee Stallion To Make Headlining Return At DC’s Broccoli City ...
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Rock-throwing suspect nabbed in Oak Bay: When the man was told he was under arrest, he threw a rock at an officer and at a police vehicle.
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Rock-throwing suspect nabbed in Oak Bay
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Major crime detectives among those looking for missing Saanich man: Saanich police are asking the public to help locate a 24-year-old man who hasn’t been seen ...
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Major crime detectives among those looking for missing Saanich man
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Lebanese community marks 136 years in B.C. with celebration in Victoria: Lebanese diplomatic staff from Argentina and Colombia were in Victoria to commemorate ...
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Lebanese community marks 136 years in B.C. with celebration in Victoria
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Liaison officer helps replace stolen bikes: The Metchosin Fire Department has a program to refurbish abandoned or stolen bikes that are found by police.
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Liaison officer helps replace stolen bikes
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B.C. 911 dispatch service 'functioning as normal' following unplanned outage: VANCOUVER — The dispatch service that handles most of British Columbia's 911 calls ...
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B.C. 911 dispatch service 'functioning as normal' following unplanned ...
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Flu Vaccines to Change After COVID Kills Off One Strain of Virus: An FDA advisory committee has recommended that the United States switch from a quadrivalent to ...
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Flu Vaccines to Change After COVID Kills Off One Strain of Virus
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Greater Victoria unemployment rate sees slight drop: Job increases were seen in construction and wholesale and retail trade, while jobs in health care and social ...
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Greater Victoria unemployment rate sees slight drop
Quick Glance: Slower, but strong US job growth expected
  • Forecast: Nonfarm payrolls to increase by 200,000 in February

  • Unemployment rate expected unchanged at 3.7%

  • Average hourly earnings to rise 4.4% year-on-year

  • Labor market remains strong despite potential rate cuts
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Galloping Goose near McKenzie interchange reopens after police investigation: Saanich police had closed the trail from McKenzie Avenue to Grange Road and asked ...
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Galloping Goose near McKenzie interchange reopens after police ...
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Shooting led to temporary Galloping Goose closure, police say: Saanich police said the shooting was targeted, and after an extensive search by officers and a ...
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Shooting led to temporary Galloping Goose closure, police say
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NDP's Singh caps off Island tour with housing acquisition fund pitch: Singh said that for every new affordable unit that’s being built, 11 existing affordable ...
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NDP's Singh caps off Island tour with housing acquisition fund pitch
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Oak Bay police chief to retire in May: Mark Fisher is set to leave May 31, ending his second stint as chief of the force
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Oak Bay police chief to retire in May
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Saanich residents face 7.91 per cent tax hike for 2024: The increase translates to about an extra $300 for the average homeowner; it's about $373 when higher ...
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Saanich residents face 7.91 per cent tax hike for 2024
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Large quantity of contraband cigarettes and cash seized in Esquimalt: The search followed the late-February arrest of a suspect after police conducting covert ...
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Large quantity of contraband cigarettes and cash seized in Esquimalt
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Victoria will allow e-kick scooters in bike lanes, low-speed roads; ‘The reality is we’re already there’
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Victoria will allow e-kick scooters in bike lanes, low-speed roads; ‘The ...
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Work on Esquimalt public-safety building set to begin — minus police station: The Esquimalt division of the Victoria police will continue to occupy space on the ...
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Work on Esquimalt public-safety building set to begin — minus police ...
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Woman missing from Saanich has been found: police: Saanich police say the 40-year-old, who was captured on video on Yale Road in Chilliwack on Feb. 21 ...
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Woman missing from Saanich has been found: police
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Man wanted on Canada-wide warrant last seen in downtown Victoria: Victoria police are asking for help locating Ken Munroe, who is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant ...
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Man wanted on Canada-wide warrant last seen in downtown Victoria
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Mix of snow and rain expected Wednesday, with sub-zero overnight temperatures: Snowfall was reported by residents throughout the capital region ...
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Mix of snow and rain expected Wednesday, with sub-zero overnight ...
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Board mulls reinstating fees for students riding Sooke School District buses: The district stopped charging for the bus when the province created a fund in 2017 ...
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Board mulls reinstating fees for students riding Sooke School District ...
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Staff, customers put out small fire at 17 Mile House Pub in Sooke: Owner says damage was confined to patio area.
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Staff, customers put out small fire at 17 Mile House Pub in Sooke
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From the north to Ottawa and Victoria, Wally Firth left a legacy of music: Wally Firth was the north’s first Indigenous MP, a pilot and a fur trader ...
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From the north to Ottawa and Victoria, Wally Firth left a legacy of music
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CRD committee wants province to let mobility scooters in bike lanes: The province has amended the Motor Vehicle Act to allow mobility aids in bike lanes but it ...
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CRD committee wants province to let mobility scooters in bike lanes
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Health officer recommends $1.1 billion regional water filtration plant: Medical health officers are the designated “drinking water officers” who approve and ...
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Health officer recommends $1.1 billion regional water filtration plant
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Victoria man arrested in connection with Sidney stabbing: RCMP: “We would like Sidney residents to know this was not a random act.”
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Victoria man arrested in connection with Sidney stabbing
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CRD takes steps to purchase Brentwood Bay strip mall for affordable housing: The location, which is close to transit and other services, had long been marked for ...
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CRD takes steps to purchase Brentwood Bay strip mall for affordable ...
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Police release pickup photo in connection with pedestrian hit by car in Nanaimo: The RCMP asked for the public’s help in identifying the driver and registered ...
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Police release pickup photo in connection with pedestrian hit by car in ...
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Two arrested at Vancouver airport in connection with Saanich scam cases: A man and woman from Quebec were arrested in the “grandparent scam” that cost two ...
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Two arrested at Vancouver airport in connection with Saanich scam cases
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Saanich Peninsula Hospital ER to get physician assistant in pilot project: While the pilot project is being hailed as a significant step, it won’t yet see the ...
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Saanich Peninsula Hospital ER to get physician assistant in pilot project
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Confusion, Uncertainty And Burden Mar USPS’ Regulation Of Coworking Spaces: From Seattle to Texas and beyond, coworking spaces across the nation are waiting for ...
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Confusion, Uncertainty And Burden Mar USPS’ Regulation Of Coworking Spaces
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Pedestrian dead after being struck by a vehicle in Sooke: Sooke RCMP is investigating after the woman was struck by a vehicle around 5:30 a.m ...
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Pedestrian dead after being struck by a vehicle in Sooke
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Highway 14 closed after 'vehicle incident' in Sooke: A detour is in effect via Otter Point Road and Grant Road West.
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Highway 14 closed after 'vehicle incident' in Sooke
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Esquimalt to explore re-establishing its own police department: The township would contract with a larger police force for services like forensics ...
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Esquimalt to explore re-establishing its own police department
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Saanich revised OCP opens door to 18-storey residential towers on McKenzie: The revised official community plan will go to public hearing this spring.
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Saanich revised OCP opens door to 18-storey residential towers on McKenzie
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Pop culture curators: London museum seeks Taylor Swift superfan: The Victoria and Albert Museum is a hotbed of pop culture. In order to understand the fan ...
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Pop culture curators: London museum seeks Taylor Swift superfan
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Police say missing 18-year-old has been located: Skylar Thiele has been located
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Police say missing 18-year-old has been located
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Tofino Bus intercity bus service to resume Easter weekend: The intercity bus service connects Victoria, Nanaimo, Parksville, Port Alberni, Ucluelet and Tofino
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Tofino Bus intercity bus service to resume Easter weekend
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Ukrainians and supporters gather in Victoria as war rolls into third year: Hundreds attend rally at Centennial Square to mark two years of Ukrainians fighting ...
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Ukrainians and supporters gather in Victoria as war rolls into third year
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$8.8M Uplands pipe upgrade to prevent sewage flowing into ocean: Funding from the federal and provincial governments will allow Oak Bay to replace the ...
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$8.8M Uplands pipe upgrade to prevent sewage flowing into ocean
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B.C. has longest walk-in clinic wait times in Canada: The average wait time in Victoria was 107 minutes, or one hour and 47 minutes.
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B.C. has longest walk-in clinic wait times in Canada
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Victoria police nab 23 shoplifting suspects in two-day blitz: Almost $14,000 in stolen merchandise was recovered in the Feb. 9-11 operation ...
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Victoria police nab 23 shoplifting suspects in two-day blitz
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Enter Esquimalt municipal hall through back door for now, township says: The township says it is having ’tech issues’ with the front door.
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Enter Esquimalt municipal hall through back door for now, township says
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Lunar New Year lion dance parade draws big crowds to Victoria's Chinatown: The loud and acrobatic spectacle drew a following crowd of hundreds.
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Lunar New Year lion dance parade draws big crowds to Victoria's Chinatown
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Loggerhead turtle rarely seen in B.C. waters is rescued, suffering hypothermia: B.C. marine scientist Anna Hall encountered a very lost loggerhead turtle in ...
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Loggerhead turtle rarely seen in B.C. waters is rescued, suffering ...
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Stabbing outside Blanshard Street Tim Hortons sends victim to hospital: Victoria police responded to the report in the 1400-block of Blanshard Street just before ...
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Stabbing outside Blanshard Street Tim Hortons sends victim to hospital
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Central Saanich police search for missing 25-year-old: Sarah-Jane Byers-Deatherage is five-foot-nine and has a nose piercing and a butterfly tattoo across her ...
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Central Saanich police search for missing 25-year-old
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In B.C., inflation threatens local government's climate plans: Staff at the District of Saanich have become the first in Canada to propose an aggressive solution ...
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In B.C., inflation threatens local government's climate plans
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Their parents built the home set to be demolished this week in 1956 and it remained in the family for 45 years.
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The calmness of this airport will leave you relaxed: The relaxed vibe of this Canadian airport is an asset in most regards – except at security.
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The calmness of this airport will leave you relaxed
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Man arrested in Oak Bay, Victoria vehicle-vandalism spree: Police said the man used a long skateboard to smash the headlights and taillights on vehicles ...
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Man arrested in Oak Bay, Victoria vehicle-vandalism spree
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Developer can’t add two storeys to Esquimalt condo already being built: West Vancouver-based developer had said the extra storeys at 899 Esquimalt Rd ...
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Developer can’t add two storeys to Esquimalt condo already being built
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Scooter rider with no light or helmet turns out to be subject of warrant: The man was wanted on the West Shore for theft and failing to attend court
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Scooter rider with no light or helmet turns out to be subject of warrant
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Standalone police force for Esquimalt feasible but costly, report says: It would require spending on new or refurbished police facilities, hiring officers in a ...
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Standalone police force for Esquimalt feasible but costly, report says
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Saanich teen hit in crosswalk while on the way to school: The 17-year-old’s leg was injured when she was struck by a left-turning SUV in a marked crosswalk at ...
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Saanich teen hit in crosswalk while on the way to school
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School year abroad - how this expensive dream can come true: Victoria Harbor on Vancouver Island. The Hamburg student Lina went to school in the Canadian city ...
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School year abroad - how this expensive dream can come true
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Our Community: Victoria-based Camino de Santiago promoter recognized by Spain: One of the founders of the Victoria chapter of the Canadian Company of Pilgrims ...
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Our Community: Victoria-based Camino de Santiago promoter recognized by ...