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Meet Jack Sandor, the 27-year-old electrician running for Victoria City Council

“Housing and climate action are inextricably linked. You cannot have proper climate action without proper action on housing,” he said.

Victoria should do everything they can to keep Hermann’s Jazz Club and View Street Social alive

Victoria should do everything in its power to keep two iconic venues — Hermann’s Jazz Club and View Street Social — alive.

‘This city is full of poets’: Victoria celebrates National Poetry Month 2026

For National Poetry Month, celebrated every April in Canada, the Martlet spoke to Victoria’s Poet Laureate, Kyeren Regehr, to learn about some of the events featured at local bookstores and…

Victoria staple FernFest cancelled for 2026

“Over time FernFest has grown into a very large and very expensive undertaking,” the statement reads. “Even for a dedicated organization like ours, we simply can’t do everything.”

A student’s guide to earthquake preparedness

For easy access to resources, students can download the UVic Safety App, which includes information on emergency procedures, websites, and helpful phone numbers to call in case of an emergency.

Trackmeet is a band built on friendship, garage jams, and ‘Super Monkey Ball’

Their collaboration and mutual respect for one another is how their single, “Johanna" — most pop-forward song — came together.

Five Victoria releases to get you away from Spotify, and towards local performers

“Eventide” features twinkling electric guitar that chops and reverberates with Glass’s own enunciation, reminiscent of bands like Explosions in the Sky. It remains a purposely instrumental release, made for the…

UVic students run 126km to Nanaimo in support of men’s mental health awareness

“We both really got into running then, and that really helped us. So I think since then, we've been on this trajectory. This was almost bound to happen," Dorin said.

‘Defund VicPD’ opposes new funding increase for Victoria and Esquimalt police

Instead of increasing police spending, the grassroots organization advocates for community investments such as improving school counselling supports, educational assistance, and more.