On The Island from CBC Radio British Columbia

Canadian author Ken McGoogan tells Gregor Craigie about his new book Dead Reckoning: The Untold Story of the Northwest Passage, and the indispensable role of indigenous explorers in the Actic.

Waaseyaa’sin Christine Sy is a lecturer in Gender Studies at the University of Victoria. She told Gregor Craigie about the indigenous focus of some of the courses she is teaching.

The Victoria Cool Aid Society is facing critics in two different neighbourhoods over plans to increase supported housing to ease homelessness, and problems outside its existing shelter.

Victoria's Artist in Residence, Luke Ramsey, tells Gregor Craigie about the striking new mural in the North Park neighbourhood and the move to paint more murals in public spaces.

In the wake of a massive security breach by Equifax, a Victoria-based company has won recognition for a screening tool that probes beyond credit scores to assess the suitability of would-be renters and borrowers.

A promised business-case study on putting light rail transit on the old E and N Rail line is delayed, and Langford Mayor Stew Young says it could be too late and too costly to save the old tracks.

A seniors advocacy group is hoping Abbeyfield House in Courtenay can still reopen as seniors housing. It closed last month after operators said they were unable to meet residents’ increasing care needs.

Heather McLean was just 17 years old when she died in a downtown Victoria hotel room from a fentanyl overdose. Her mother, Bonniejean Duncan, and her sister, Emily Chase, believe her exploitation by older men played a key role in her death.

Art piece consists of a 1980s Slumber Queen Camper and six robotic legs, which it walks on 'like an insect'.

Duncan Mayor Phil Kent says building a bypass to avoid the TransCanada where it goes through Duncan would be challenging, and said there are other measures that can be done instead to improve traffic flow.

In Victoria, efforts to improve access to addiction treatment are expanding into the hospital emergency department and family physicians' practices.

Cobble Hill resident Bill Dumont and Andrew Poland of Duncan say the 13-km stretch of the Trans Canada highway through Duncan can take up to an hour to get through when traffic is at its heaviest.

Martyn Brown, Elizabeth Cull, and Norman Spector join Gregor Craigie to discuss the Liberals' speech from the throne and the possible outcomes of an expected confidence vote in the B.C. legislature next week.

NDP leader John Horgan joins Gregor Craigie to discuss the BC Liberals' speech from the throne and his chances of becoming premier next week.

Is a spirit of cooperation afoot around the B.C. Legislature? Martyn Brown, Elizabeth Cull, and Norman Spector join Gregor Craigie to discuss negotiations between three political parties that want a role in the next government.