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s Maramis Choufani is the Managing Editor of the Las Vegas Tribune. It’s been a long time since I had what I could call my own dog. And I’m not even sure I ever did. However, we always had a family dog when I was growing up, and for some reason, one I especially loved was our Black cocker spaniel, Yankee Duke, that I decided to paint. He never actually posed for me, but I managed to paint his portrait anyway. Don’t ask me why I felt so inspired to do that since I wasn’t a natural-born artist and that...

A Victoria-based organization, aiming to connect the homeless community to broader society through the power of storytelling, has created a mini-documentary profiling a resident of Beacon Hill Park. Marko Curuvija, founder of The Existence Project, acknowledges the divisiveness of homelessness in Victoria, but hopes the 20-minute documentary can invoke a sense of empathy for viewers. The documentary profiles Shae Smith, who runs a Twitter account called Humans of Beacon Hill Park and produces a podcast discussing homelessness in Victoria. Curuvija said he also hopes the documentary can help viewers see that providing housing for all is a solution that benefits...

A 19-year-old who allegedly took a bus for a joyride and ended up crashing into a rock wall has been arrested. On Wednesday morning, a BC Transit driver returned from his break while parked at Victoria General Hospital to find his bus had been stolen. Shortly after the driver called police at 6:42 a.m., another call came in notifying officers that a man was seen running from a bus that had just crashed into a rock wall on Herbate Road near the Barker Road intersection in View Royal. There were no passengers on the bus at the time. READ MORE:...