On The Island from CBC Radio British Columbia

Victoria realtor Tony Joe says there's already evidence of sales collapsing because of the proposed new tax - but it will probably not affect affordability or drive large numbers of offshore investors to other locations such as Victoria.

Bobbie Torry says emergency staff at the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital sought to send her sister Debbie home over the protests of relatives, before discovering she had suffered a stroke.

Victoria Caledonian Brewery and Distillery will soon be open to the public. Gregor Craigie got a tour from founder Graeme Macaloney, master distiller Mike Nicolson, and Scotland's leading whiskey maturation expert, Jim Swan.

Will a new tax on foreign real estate buyers in Metro Vancouver keep home ownership affordable for the rest of us? We asked BC's finance minister, Mike de Jong.

Discount air carrier New Leaf is now flying out of Victoria and several other Canadian cities. To find out more we called Barry Prentice, a professor at the Asper School of Business in Winnipeg.

Derrick Forsythe is recovering from a brain injury. Janelle Breese-Biagioni is community services coordinator for The Cridge Brain Injury Service, which helped has helped him for the past four years.

British Columbia Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe explains how her office will now collect and publicly report on all doctor-assisted deaths in British Columbia.

Nelly Furtado is returning to her hometown to perform with the Victoria Symphony, in a fundraising concert for VIRCS, the Victoria Immigrant and Refugee Centre Society and their work with Syrian refugees.

BC Housing CEO Shayne Ramsay explains how the Central Care Home, a former seniors facility, is being converted into supportive housing for homeless people, including many of the residents of the tent city at Victoria's downtown court house.

Researchers say a concerning number of dead sea birds have washed up in the Pacific Northwest. Bird Studies Canada's Karen Devitt says there have been about half a dozen reports of dead Rhinoceros Auklets on beaches near Victoria.

Devlin Farmer is a lawyer and mediator, and the author of Representing Yourself in Court: How to Win Your Case on Your Own, by Self-Counsel Press.

We speak with Iraqi-Canadian Sohad Kadhum about what message Western countries send when terrorism's victims in Muslim countries are not recognized.

Alastair McCollum is rector of St. John the Divine Anglican Church in Victoria. He discusses the results of the vote on same-sex marriage, which fell just short of the two-thirds majority needed.

A gambling reseacher says official statistics underestimate the extent of problem gambling in B.C. casinos, and the share of revenues it provides. Robert Williams also says British Columbia uses some of the least-effective gambling-addiction programs.

Judy and Gar Reeves-Stevens talk about how they helped create Adventure Isle, one of the "lands" in the new Shanghai Disney.