Focus Magazine

Humans celebrate birdsbird-watching is now more popular than golf and even gardeningbut North American buildings may kill close to a billion each year. Stephen Hume reports in Focus...

Citizen & storyteller Moira Walker reflects on disposable masks and other litter on Victoria’s streets. AND she picks them up too!

A profile of driftwood sculpture artist Tanya Bub: As I’m working on them, they’re just pieces of wood until something clicks, and then I feel I’m working with the spirit of the animal. By Sandy Ibrahim.

In Focus: Gene Miller reflects on the church looking over Harris Green.

Writer Jim Cooperman asks: Why is Canada planning to spend half-trillion dollars on military hardware when climate change and viruses pose the real threat?

James Bay resident Burton Voorhees writes of his concerns about plans for the Admiral Inn property on Belleville, in Focus.

Here’s a statement from Pacheedaht elder Bill Jones about yesterday’s statement from Chief Jeff Jones and Chief Queesto Frank Jones that is posted on our website in the Comment section under Forest Defenders Ready for Showdown. A response from the Rainforest Flying Squad is also there.

See Leslie Campbell's report, with photos by Dawna Mueller, about our visit to the Fairy Creek Valley & Caycuse area. Meet some of the people standing in defence of the last of coastal BC's old growth.

Judith Lavoie reports on the demise of a wolf pack near Sooke. With video footage of the wolves when they were alive. https://www.focusonvictoria.ca/reporting/34/

Trudy Mitic's latest reflections in Focus: there's so much to learn in even a small local park.

On the anniversary of Takaya's death, Cheryl Alexander says: "Takaya was killed by the hunter’s decision to shoot a wolf that was not threatening nor a source of food. That decision was supported by a hunting culture that sees wolves as vermin and competition" and by BC's laws.

Storyteller Moira Walker laments the sacrifice of urban trees and over-use of concrete in Victoria's street calming efforts.