Fantastic photos!! Gregory is an amazing photographer! Well done. enjoyed!!

Sorry to be a downer but “from abroad”?!! Meanwhile we are told to avois ALL NON ESSENTIAL TRAVEL. I just don’t get people.

Great fun

Fantastic!

Today’s SE wind is hitting Victoria at a bad time. There is a high tide of 9.5 ft. this afternoon.

People need to slow down on Sooke Rd, and give proper room when driving it especially in wet conditions. Them “straightening” the highway will have zero effect. People are the problem, speed, and careless distracted drivers. Luckily nobody was killed. SLOW DOWN PEOPLE.

Congratulations Heather and thanks to all who work so hard to help others in this compassionate litte town.

God Bless her.

Hope the driver is OK

Thanks so much for being our eyes this year!

Gather information on this important issue. I’ll find someone at UVic to help you crunch the data.

more black and hispanic votes were cast for Trump this election than for any president since the early 60’s. Biden will be buying oil from Canada which will help the Alberta oil sands… just so you know.

I am Exuberant! Now the world has a REAL leader!

Thanks for a great letter Yvonne and for the supportive replies. We need to realize just because we say our needs come first and overall, it is not true or right. Ellen is so right in saying we need to look at our needs vs our wants.

Good stewardship begins with the land. Respect the land God gave us the foods from the land and the animals too for food and we were made the stewards of both.Gid also said go forth and multiply. So we have people to house and feed. How we do that is so important Yvonne and I agree we need to talk about that and not destroy our land for greed. It is what do we need? I have met si many people over the last months who are balancing their needs over wants,planting gardens, reducing their want list and living a more frugal life.
Goid questions and answers need to be addressed in our OCP in a responsible manner.hope you filled in your questionnaire

So now we have mask police not enough police to deal with crime and municipal governments strapped for monies to hire police. Sooke seeking 3 more officers to give 24 hr police protection. We don’t have the monies but we put RCMP on the ferries to make sure of compliance to covid protocols? Really? Mental illness,addiction, homelessness and death on our streets from overdose and drug wars! Where does it look like our resources should be focused? Unmask our minds

Yes! Timely questions. I think we know the answers. Thanks.

Thank you Y. Good and necessary questions.

I find it ironic that this is the first year I can’t get a flu vaccine.

It’s a good thing!

It seems someone is using the same tactics as Donald Trump -deny, delay, and sue everyone.
The inevitable reckoning can’t come soon enough for these blights on society.

Send him back.

I am led to believe that immigration lawyers are expensive. Mr. Durkin has a $4 million judgment recorded against his companies and the corporate veil was lifted making him personally liable. I am not aware of Mr.Durkin being employed in any official capacity nor indeed since 2014 because he was operator/manager at the Sooke Harbour House Hotel. According to what was disclosed in court recently, was not in receipt of any remuneration. It was also shown in the recent trial that there was very little funds in his 2 companies. He self litigated during that trial claiming that he/his companies could not afford counsel. In view of these observations, it begs the question how are those current immigration legal fees being met if he has insufficent funds and no official income?

This guy qualifies for a slimy politician. Lock him up before he wastes more tax dollars and destroys more lives.

On point Britt… thanks for reporting the real deal about this conman! He’s conning the judicial system in Canada and trying to get away with it! He won’t in the US, the US victims are watching and will not be swindled… EVER! Good luck Durkin!

No surprise from Durkin, very predictable. So application tomorrow in my opinion is 2 fold, which is first delay and secondly some concern regarding anyone watching/viewing from outside Canada. His counsel specifically mentioned those potentially from the US, why would that be? They are not participants or witnesses but merely observers. Durkin’s counsel stated that access was guaranteed to Canadians but that right was not extended to anyone outside Canada. Could this apply to my viewing of Judge Judy and similar programmes broadcast to the public in the US and Canada and anywhere else in the world? I hope this doesn’t set a precedent.

What a fucking moron .

Hoping this guy goes down and ends up in Prison. Really well put together article. Thanks Britt

Very good reportage on Sooke’s Patron Saint of Grift

I am told that Mr Durkin is too immobile and obese to be transported by automobile to Vancouver and the alternative delivery by ambulance service was denied by them.
Apparently he had refused to remit payment for a past invoice. A confirmation would be appreciated.

If factual, the “Scotsman Tug and Barge Service” is offering to transport Mr Durkin to any of his future Court proceedings.

Just listened to the first episode of All Sooke Days and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was also my very first podcast to listen to. Thank you so much. I hope to listen to many more.

Go Ralph where time clock is concerned! Standard Time Around The World! Stop messing with this. GMT is Standard Time

100% agree with the author of this article. Preferred priority would be to use this land to improve local food security, incorporating in sustainable agri-practices including rainwater catchment.
If site is developed:
The number of vehicles that the development currently plans for must be drastically reduced – especially if EV chargers aren’t even mandated in the build. Including a 2-car garage in the design (plus additional single car driveways, in the instance of the townhomes) is catering to ever more automobiles congesting Sooke’s subpar streets and roadways, and in a time of climate emergency, to do so is not only not tenable, it is asinine.
The renewables mentioned – EV charger, rainwater catchment, solar – should be baked in as a developer-must.

Agreed no more time change Not agreed with the cannabis.

Very well done. Congratulations. I should have been there. Amazing organizing

It’s always fantastic, certainly the best I’ve ever seen in Sooke, just gets better and better every year ❤️❤️❤️

And where exactly are all these people commuting on? An already slammed road way with absolutely zero infrastructure to support? No bylaws in place to protect any of the remaining trees in Sooke? Mowing down more greenspace” In no time Sooke will look like Langford. What a horribly revolting thought.

Sooke has the opportunity to adopt urban development standards based on successful environmental models worldwide. Yet it seems unable to break the same old proposals for urban land use. Much boldér initiatives provide economical housing with food production. We must learn to make decisions based on future health not immediate profits.

We absolutely must do whatever we can to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Why not play a leadership role that others will emulate?

I say you must be a senior who will never have to pay the debt burden left behind to pay for your living standard and covid pandemic cost.

Garage Sale
Executive Home Downsizing
Saturday & Sunday, October 24 &25 9:00-11:00am

Antique crystal, antique wall mounted crank telephone, photography books & equipment bags, Thule rooftop cargo/ski box and rack, downhill and x-country ski equipment, men’s one piece Obermyer ski suit (fits 6’3″), Kenwood R-1000 Communications Receiver, hand tools, painting supplies, gardening tools, fertilizer spreader, Webber Genesis stainless steel natural gas BBQ, books, Martha Stewart 7′ lighted Christmas tree, and many more items.

My kids love browsing in the garden (Lynn’s) and have grown up with their hands in the dirt. Having Granny teach them to garden, sew, knit , and even build, the same as she taught me has been as great gift . Now my kids are growing and harvesting on their own.

While they may technically be city kids by place of residence they grew up as I did , a small town kid. Raiding peas from the garden, checking for eggs and picking berries for dessert . Great article mom

Hello Lynn and Ellen. I too am from that era but a pre boomer. My father left for overseas at the Second WW. Mom and I survived on our own on a meager armed service allotment. I was 3 when Dad arrived home and we too started off in a 2 bedroom Veteran post war home. Small but we all had room to grow safely in a caring, sharing, mutual friendly happy place to play and be watched over. The young veterans were so happy to have survived the horrors of war and be home with family and their young babies (you lucky boomers)
They worked hard in their yards built fences to lean over and share time building projects with their neighbors.
We walked to school in all weather and were thankful if we had gumboots to splash in the many puddles. We made friends at school for life and still remember times together playing many games of unorganized sports. We shared produce and watched our Mothers and their friends spend hours over wood stoves canning produce for the winter months.
Rainy days after school were spent listening to great radio productions of all our historic heroes.
At the risk of upsetting so many friends I am going to say if we could only take some of the ALR lands sitting without any relative agri production and start over with a housing program similar to the Veterans housing development we would ultimately have more produce produced from home gardens than we will ever see from these fallow lands. Think not only of the housing supply but the health of the families living in what could be a new normal.

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Antique crystal, antique wall mounted crank telephone, photography books & equipment bags, Thule rooftop cargo/ski box and rack, Thule ski racks, downhill and x-country ski equipment, men’s one piece Obermyer ski suit (fits 6’3″), Kenwood R-1000 Communications Receiver, hand tools, painting supplies, gardening tools, fertilizer spreader, Webber Genesis stainless steel natural gas BBQ, books, Martha Stewart 7′ lighted Christmas tree, and many more items.

Wholeheartedly agree with the author of this article and earlier commenters.
At a time of climate emergency, the utter and ongoing desecration of Broom Hill – with the multi-phase, multi-year development that is going in – is nothing less than ecocide, which Sooke District is enabling. Make the OCP a truly meaningful, guiding document that enshrines, protects, and stewards our most valuable resource – nature. Spare us more lip service that ultimately panders to developers, at the expense of what is irreplaceable.

This letter needs to go to OCP committee. I too am part of that era .we need to go more simple. The house style you talk of was proposed in the last OCP for the area on the water side of Sooke rd. What a lovely concept. Thrashed,by council and staff duped by some developers. Please sen your letter care of Al Beddows ,acting chair of the OCP.i am an OCP member

Tugging at my nostalgia strings.Thx. for sharing this Britt

What a great letter. A poignant reminder of what we are leaving behind as we seem to be being herded into a less personal, less human, more virtual existence.

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It was disappointing that John Horgan couldn’t manage to show up for his own riding’s forum, sending in Mitzi Dean in his stead. Could we say he takes Langford/Juan de Fuca voters for granted?