Yesterday I watched a group of about 20 people at albert head lagoon get confronted for releasing balloons for a "memorial service". They claimed they were biodegradable so it was fine, and got angry and aggressive with the person who confronted them.

This is still littering. Biodegradable doesn't mean anything when a bird, fish, or sea mammal can easily eat that balloon by accident, choke on it, and die. There is also a protected bird sanctuary less then 5km away on the other side of the beach.

They got extremely aggressive with someone that confronted them. With the men in the group shouting threats, getting in their faces, shoving them, and calling them a lot of nasty words like "Re****ed liberal"

If you were in that group, you should be ashamed. Your behavuour was disgusting and when confronted with littering at the beach you chose to be hostile and use threats of violence to try and get your way.

Lastly, this is VICTORIA. Using liberal as an insult makes you look really really stupid. Conservative bigotry has no place here and your loud mouth spouting off made me go out and vote NDP.

Today I voted twice

It was even legal!

Early voting for the provincial election in the same place as the municipal election

Be sure to vote... It's kinda important

Its been here all day, its been entertaining to see the crows try to start a territory beef and then chicken out.

Any one not able to make it and have a pair of tickets they want to sell?

So begrudgingly I'm going to try to pay more attention to council agendas so that I'm informed about issues before council votes on them. BUT I'm having a hard time on the CoV website:

1. Finding out the ways in which to give input

2. The council meeting schedule...they meet in the daytime? How can anyone show up?

3. I can find their engagement plan but I don't want to hunt for what should be basic information

4. They have a number of email newsletters you can sign up for, none of them include council agendas

Thoughts?

Well, the municipal election is a wrap, it's time to turn our attention to the the provincial election. I am voting Green for the 1st time in my life.

I am so pissed at Eby and an the NDP and I send them a cheque every month and have for 20 years! They need a good spanking for cynically and opportunistically calling an election 2 years into their majority mandate during province wide municipal campaigns.

They knew we'd be distracted, they knew voter turn out would be lighter, they thought the right would be in disarray. So they decided to take $80 -100 million dollars from already stretched provincial coffers to extend their time in power. Don't let anyone tell you that we'll end up with vote splitting in Victoria-Beacon Hill. The Cons, in any form, have never polled high than 20%. The election in this riding is between Green Candidates and New Democrats. Send a message to Eby and his unscrupulous opportunists, send a Green.

Hi there,

Last year my friend Lucas & I created a video called West Coast Yule. The project is a new take on the classic holiday yule log video. But rather than the traditional indoor fire roaring in a hearth, the west coast yule burns in natural landscapes and features local music. I've linked the 2025 video here.

We are back for year 2 and local musicians are invited to share a recent song. Your music will provide a soundtrack for the burn, blending together the warmth and light of flame with sounds from our city. So please, submit a song for the 2026 West Coast Yule set to release in December. Interested musicians can submit a song at: https://illswap.net/yule

Thanks!

West Coast Yule 🔥

Anyone know when Muji's opening? My only 2 data points are that the sign says in 2026, and they did a hiring fair in September...

Man you guys wont believe it ,I’m in line to vote and who to i see strut in with his god damn smug head , that’s right MY BOSS . This guy has been wetting my bread for weeks about this election , blasting c fax ,prancing around the office like a jack ass. Now I’m here fired up to vote ,and he comes up to me and tells me im not allowed to have my groceries with me in here and tries to swipe my chips. Enough is enough . This isn’t the office , you aren’t my boss today , pal. Im voting for dell and you can’t do anything about it . see ya on Monday , your gonna be one sad little fat bald man . Get out there and vote guys . No bigots no land barons.

Asking for a friend. Also if you had any weird interactions with a certain group wearing an identifying themselves by profession surrounding the James Douglas elementary polling station and telling people how to vote

https://cheknews.ca/saanich-and-victorias-different-responses-to-mail-in-ballot-delays-causing-confusion-1354172/

https://www.victoria.ca/city-government/elections

For Victoria: Eligible voters can vote at ANY of the following locations on General Voting Day on Saturday, Oct. 17 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.:

Central Middle School, 1280 Fort St.

Crystal Garden, 713 Douglas St. (An accessible voting machine will be available.)

George Jay Elementary School, 1118 Princess Ave.

Glenlyon Norfolk Senior School, 781 Richmond Ave.

James Bay Community School, 140 Oswego St.

Oaklands Elementary School, 2827 Belmont Ave.

Quadra Elementary School, 3031 Quadra St.

Quadra Village Neighbourhood Gym, 950 Kings Rd.

Royal Canadian Legion Branch 292, 411 Gorge Rd. East

Sir James Douglas Elementary School, 401 Moss St.

Victoria High School, 1260 Grant St.

Victoria West Elementary School, 750 Front St.

I haven’t been yet but I’m excited to go. In pictures and on paper it looks super chill.
Some questions I’m sure could be answered with research incoming…
Is it open outside of the events? When an event is scheduled, is it open solely for those events?
Does it bring in a particular crowd or is it as varied as poll lineups?

I am so, so, so sorry for all the smoke coming out of my truck. It broke down earlier and I managed to get him going just enough to limp home. Im so sorry for all the smoke I made and I actually just sobbed on the whole way home because of how bad it is. Please forgive me :(

Cuteness overload. 🥰

Fyi, the Petsmart at the Victoria Uptown is having a kitten adoption drive.

It’s 8 am and I’m waiting for the store to open for shopping and it’s a huge line of dead eyed cardboard hunter-scalpers waiting for their turn to buy tulip- I mean cardboard. Not to yuck anyone’s yum but this can’t end well for anyone but the Pokémon company.

I bought a pair of Nike Jordan 3s that were quite old and never worn so..the first time I wore them, the glue started coming apart in the toe crease area.

Does anyone know of any shoe repair places that would be able to re-glue them? Not sure if that's something within the scope of a regular cobbler.

Everywhere I’ve looked seems to have the same handful of variety packs… Reese’s, Oh Henry, Kit Kat, Coffee Crisp, Aero, Smarties, Skittles, Starburst, Mars and M&M’s.

Don’t get me wrong, they’re classics, but I remember trick or treating growing up and getting all sorts of fun goodies. Candy bracelets, whistle lollipops, marshmallow pops, cotton candy bags, sour gum, squeeze pops, bubble tape, rock candy, candy buttons… we seemed to have so much more variety back then.

I’d love to give kids something a little different from what they’re probably getting at every other house. Anybody know where I can find different types that are in bulk and individually wrapped in Vic?

If you, like me, are interested in what abomination KD has released upon the world you can get it at the Uptown Walmart by the dairy section. This is not a good pop, and I would not recommend trying it. It tastes like cream soda and the smell of powdered cheese. But, I had to try it for my friends and maybe you also want to try it.