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After passionately voicing concerns at a four-hour public hearing, residents around Shelbourne Street and McRae Avenue can still expect to see a six-storey development emerge at the southwest corner of the intersection. Having heard critiques related to parking, reduced setbacks and what some felt was non-adherence to the Shelbourne Valley Action Plan (SVAP), Saanich council unanimously approved Abstract Developments’ mixed-use, market-ratecondominium building for this mostly single-family home neighbourhood. The July 5 decision to approve creation of a new C-16 zone (neighbourhood mixed-use) to allow for the 87-unit project followed the recent trend that has seen council approve rezoning for projects...

We are knee deep in ice cream cones and swimming lessons over here at my house, and it feels like summer is in full swing. My husband has been on a month-long tour in Europe (he plays for the band Twenty One Pilots) and while we hate being without him, we just have one more week until we get him back for a bit … which we are very much looking forward to. It’s hard to have a partner gone for long chunks (especially now that we have Lola), but we Facetime him when the time zones line up, and...

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In July of last year, a grown man pulled on a giant bear costume and set out to walk across the country. Under the alias Bearsun, Jessy Larios, then 33, ambled from Los Angeles to New York, sweating and chafing and viewing the world through a mesh peephole. Larios told me that it was “kind of like carrying around your own prison,” and that despite the costume’s whimsical exterior, the interior experience was akin to “getting tortured.” But Bearsun prevailed, inspiring Instagram followers and news reporters alike as he walked in search of … um, why exactly did he do...

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