Month: August 2022

Martin Girard August 31, 2022

Multiple events across town were set in conjunction with International Drug Overdose Awareness Day, here in Victoria, BC. And they...

Martin Girard August 24, 2022

About two hundred people rallied before the BC Legislature in Victoria to mark Ukraine's independence day and the grim six-month...

Martin Girard August 23, 2022

I've just attended an annual fair that was suspended during the pandemic, and brought back under the name Project Reconnect....

Martin Girard August 10, 2022

About three dozen angry protesters converged on the Ministry of Health office on Blanshard Street in Victoria, under the banner...

Martin Girard August 3, 2022

I spent the whole winter in 2017 in Downtown Eastside Vancouver. Already then it was shocking, far beyond anything I'd...