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Dec 4 - 40 days at sea in a small boat
Local rows 5,000km for charity. Storm starts today. Locals rally to help family after woman's death.
Capital Daily Team
December 04, 2023
Good morning !
Yesterday’s poll was almost dead even between local bakery cookies vs. homemade cookies. The varieties you listed most often as favourites were shortbread, chocolate chip, and oatmeal.
— Cam
Today’s approx. read time: 6 minutes
🌡️ Weather Forecast
NEWS
Charges recommended for officer in deadly fall 2021 police shooting on Douglas
Image: Google Maps (annotated; not current)
A man was shot dead by police on Sept. 12, 2021 outside Island Savings near Mayfair. A video captured it, but two years later few details (even the victim’s name) are public. On Thursday, though, the Independent Investigations Office (IIO) announced that there are reasonable grounds that a VicPD officer committed a firearm offence.
The IIO said the incident began near Douglas and Tolmie before 10am. Saanich police attended first, then VicPD, and negotiations and less-lethal weapons were used before the shooting around 11am.
At the time, a witness told CHEK that the victim threatened himself with a knife while emotionally up-and-down during negotiations. Bystander footage appears to show the man in and around the bushes, surrounded at a distance by 7 officers, before being shot.
Now in hands of Prosecution Service
The IIO automatically reviews cases in which police action or inaction could have led to death or injury in BC. To bring charges to court, the BC Prosecution Service must be satisfied that conviction is substantially likely, and that prosecution is in the public interest.
IIO seldom recommends charges
No charges came, for example, in the Christmas 2019 fatal shooting of Victoria’s Lisa Rauch with an ARWEN round. The family was upset by that, and a public hearing on the death was recently ordered.
This is the second 2021 Island shooting for which charges have recently been recommended by the IIO, however. The first was the killing of Jared Lowndes by Campbell River RCMP.
The IIO has been backed up with cases due to recent years’ rise in police shootings in BC, but got a $2M funding boost to expedite the backlog.
⚠️ Capital Bulletin
Heavy rain on parts of Island during south coast storm today and tomorrow.
Missing Shawnigan person found safe, RCMP said in update.
Hit-and-run on Foul Bay and Fairfield: Police seek a southbound driver who injured a pedestrian, 62, in the crosswalk at 12:15am on Wed. [More info]
Elevated water levels expected to continue on peninsula and Southern Gulf Islands.
Hwy 14 open again in Sooke after being shut by crash Sun. morning.
NEWS
Local man will spend 40 days at sea, rowing for charity
The rower and the boat he plans to use. Both images via UVic.
UVic rower Anthony Carella is about 700 days away from competing in the World’s Toughest Row, a nearly 5,000km journey from the Canary Islands to Antigua. He won’t be alone in the 8-metre boat, though. He’s doing the race with three former teammates from Hobart College, where the Ontarian walked on without having ever used an oar before.
He took to the sport like a, well, rower to water, and now races for UVic while doing his post-grad. But the idea of half a million dollars for the Boys and Girls Club and other charities brought the quartet back together.
They’ll now spend two years training and fundraising—all for the chance to spend weeks at sea with no bathroom or beds rowing in two-hour shifts in often gruelling conditions.
Is this man out of his mind to try this? |
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⭐️ Capital Picks
🕯️ Carols begin today at Victoria City Hall. [Schedule]
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🗞️ In Other News
Nearly $80K raised to help Cumberland pilot who lost wife
After the death of Courtney Miller, 34, from a heart attack after over a decade of rare medical problems, Islanders are rallying to support her husband Finlay and son Felix. They are staying with family in Victoria, and Finlay is away from his job as an airline pilot. [Times Colonist]
Victoria’s largest townhome project in two decades wraps up
Washington Ave.’s 34 new townhomes in 10 buildings in Burnside-Gorge are the most townhouse units added in one project since the city began its development tracking in 2005. [Citified]
Butchart Gardens restaurant makes top 100 in Canada
The Dining Room was the Island’s only spot, and one of 20 from BC, in a new OpenTable ranking based on reviews from 1.1M nationwide diners.
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🗓️ Things to do
🎺 Naden Band Christmas Concert: The Royal Canadian Navy band will be joined by West My Friend tonight and tomorrow at Royal Theatre, 7:30pm.
🎤 Glass Tiger: The band will offer some festive cheer with this holiday show at the McPherson Playhouse tonight, 8pm.
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🎵 Bach Advent Cantatas: Mezzo-soprano Deana Sills, tenor Alex Chen, bassist Louis Dillon, trumpeter David Barss, and organist Robert Jan Dukarm will perform tonight at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, 7pm.
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👀 In Case You Missed It
35 Islanders died from toxic drugs in Oct. Also from Sunday: Langford aid trip to Ukraine. Senior makes 100s of toys. Nanaimo messes up.
The best cookies to try from Victoria bakeries, via Tasting Victoria.
Late-Nov. COVID indicators stayed similar to mid-Nov., which had declined notably from fall wave’s early Oct. peak. [Latest BC CDC report]
Beacon Hill bird: Old lady Dawn strikes a pose on a stump at the Children’s Farm. [Photo]
See the truck parade from Saturday night in this CHEK video.
Saturday headlines: Holiday events kick off. Ice sculpture protest.Ferry renamed. [Newsletter]
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