Capital Daily

A new podcast by Capital Daily and investigative journalist Zander Sherman.

Listen to the trailer and subscribe on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/murder-on-the-island-the-lindsay-buziak-story/id1667193389 or wherever you get your podcasts. All episodes available in late January 2023.

The Capital Daily podcast in its current format is coming to an end. We plan on bringing you different series in the future, so please stay subscribed, but the show as it has been, is now over. Thank you for everything. -Jackie

Since 2019, This Is Table Talk has served as a community sharing space for Victorians who identify as visible minorities ‚Äď and has become a catalyst for change within a city reckoning with past and present racial divides. For Black History Month, we speak with Table Talk co-facilitators Parker Johnson and Vishnu Punwani.

Capital Daily Reporters Brishti Basu and Zo√ę Ducklow travelled to Lasqueti Island to speak to locals about the tense divide in opinions when it comes to the pandemic. Brishti joins to share what she learned from her trip, and what it can tell us about the overall polarization seemingly present in our population.

We look at the intersection between affordable housing in Victoria, living wages, and the gaps in the labour market. We'll speak to Jeff Bray, the Executive Director of the Downtown Victoria Business Association, workers who have been priced out, and a local business that has been working to find solutions for their staff.

Nearly three centuries after they first sprang up on Canada‚Äôs coastline, just 51 staffed lighthouses remain in the country ‚Äď survivors of repeated attempts at automation. Perhaps nowhere in Canada are they quite so abundant as Vancouver Island, where towers dot the Strait of Georgia and the fog-laden Pacific Coast. We speak with lightkeepers Justine Etzkorn and Karen Zacharuk about a life lived ‚Äúon the lights.‚ÄĚ

Co-created by Ariel Reyes Antuan and Jess Reyes Barton in the midst of the pandemic, the Palenke Greens Initiative provides burlap sack gardens to people of African descent and other marginalized folks who are facing food insecurity. For Black History Month, we look into how the project began, where it‚Äôs headed, and how it feeds into ‚Äúthe Ubuntu spirit of communal self-reliance.‚ÄĚ

The toxic drug supply killed a record 2,224 people in BC last year. Last week, activists and those affected organized in front of the Legislature calling for more action. Today, we hear about what they're calling for and speak with Fred Cameron, Operations Director at SOLID Outreach Society, to get his reaction to the current government plans.

A century ago, the Jordan River saw thousands of salmon return to spawn each year. Now, it has been called a ‚Äúdead river‚ÄĚ ‚Äď one in which, in a good year, only a few dozen salmon might appear. To find out what happened to the river, what it once was, and what might still be done about it, we speak with Capital Daily reporter Jolene Rudisuela.

The recent census data from Statistics Canada showed (to no one's surprise) Langford is by far the fastest-growing municipality in Greater Victoria. But on a more surprising note, Esquimalt is the only area besides Oak Bay to shrink. Today we analyze the data with housing expert Leo Spalteholtz and find out why some areas are growing, some are shrinking, and what it all means for housing on the Island.