Latest Capital region Podcast Episodes
Introducing Murder on the Island: The Lindsay Buziak Story
Capital Daily - January 24, 2023 08:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn 2008, a young real estate agent named Lindsay Buziak was murdered inside a vacant, $1-million home in Victoria, British Columbia on Vancouver Island. Lindsay’s murder shook the community—and made international news. But with few new details coming to light, investigators eventually hit a wal...
Introducing Murder on the Island: The Lindsay Buziak Story
Capital Daily - January 24, 2023 08:00 - 2 minutesIn 2008, a young real estate agent named Lindsay Buziak was murdered inside a vacant, $1-million home in Victoria, British Columbia on Vancouver Island. Lindsay’s murder shook the community—and made international news. But with few new details coming to light, investigators eventually hit a wal...
This Has Been the Capital Daily Podcast
Capital Daily - February 25, 2022 15:00 - 4 minutesThe 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
This Has Been the Capital Daily Podcast
Capital Daily - February 25, 2022 15:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe 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
This Is Table Talk Provides Space for Storytelling
Capital Daily - February 25, 2022 13:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsSince 2019, This Is Table Talk has served as a community sharing space for Victorians who identify as visible minorities – 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 J...
This Is Table Talk Provides Space for Storytelling
Capital Daily - February 25, 2022 13:00 - 18 minutesSince 2019, This Is Table Talk has served as a community sharing space for Victorians who identify as visible minorities – 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 J...
Lasqueti Island's Population is Divided Over Vaccines. What Can We Learn?
Capital Daily - February 24, 2022 13:00 - 18 minutesCapital Daily Reporters Brishti Basu and Zoë 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 i...
Lasqueti Island's Population is Divided Over Vaccines. What Can We Learn?
Capital Daily - February 24, 2022 13:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsCapital Daily Reporters Brishti Basu and Zoë 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 i...
Workers Are Being Priced Out of Victoria
Capital Daily - February 23, 2022 13:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWe 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 fi...
Workers Are Being Priced Out of Victoria
Capital Daily - February 23, 2022 13:00 - 26 minutesWe 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 fi...
The Last Lightkeepers of Vancouver Island
Capital Daily - February 22, 2022 13:00 - 18 minutesNearly three centuries after they first sprang up on Canada’s coastline, just 51 staffed lighthouses remain in the country – 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-...
The Last Lightkeepers of Vancouver Island
Capital Daily - February 22, 2022 13:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsNearly three centuries after they first sprang up on Canada’s coastline, just 51 staffed lighthouses remain in the country – 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-...
How a Grassroots Garden Project Is Tackling Food Insecurity
Capital Daily - February 18, 2022 13:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsCo-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, w...
How a Grassroots Garden Project Is Tackling Food Insecurity
Capital Daily - February 18, 2022 13:00 - 17 minutesCo-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, w...
Toxic Drug Deaths Hit Record High, But Activists Are Still Optimistic
Capital Daily - February 17, 2022 13:00 - 17 minutesThe 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 ...
Toxic Drug Deaths Hit Record High, But Activists Are Still Optimistic
Capital Daily - February 17, 2022 13:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe 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 ...
What Killed the Jordan River?
Capital Daily - February 16, 2022 13:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsA century ago, the Jordan River saw thousands of salmon return to spawn each year. Now, it has been called a “dead river” – 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 spea...
What Killed the Jordan River?
Capital Daily - February 16, 2022 13:00 - 17 minutesA century ago, the Jordan River saw thousands of salmon return to spawn each year. Now, it has been called a “dead river” – 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 spea...
Why Did Esquimalt Shrink?
Capital Daily - February 15, 2022 13:00 - 25 minutesThe 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 ...
Why Did Esquimalt Shrink?
Capital Daily - February 15, 2022 13:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe 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 ...
View Royal Wants More Diversity On Its Council. Will They Get It?
Capital Daily - February 14, 2022 13:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe town council of View Royal has voted narrowly to add two new councillor seats, in an effort to attract a more diverse array of candidates to seek election. Mayor David Screech argues the move to expand council is long overdue, but his detractors have questioned whether the move is necessary,...
View Royal Wants More Diversity On Its Council. Will They Get It?
Capital Daily - February 14, 2022 13:00 - 17 minutesThe town council of View Royal has voted narrowly to add two new councillor seats, in an effort to attract a more diverse array of candidates to seek election. Mayor David Screech argues the move to expand council is long overdue, but his detractors have questioned whether the move is necessary,...
Finding Solutions to the Doctor Shortage
Capital Daily - February 11, 2022 13:00 - 13 minutesA charitable non-profit primary care network on The Saanich Peninsula is working to fix the doctor shortage in their area. By focusing on what works for doctors, they've gone from five doctors to twenty-five in just five years. For Good News Friday, we learn more about who they are, and how they...
Finding Solutions to the Doctor Shortage
Capital Daily - February 11, 2022 13:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsA charitable non-profit primary care network on The Saanich Peninsula is working to fix the doctor shortage in their area. By focusing on what works for doctors, they've gone from five doctors to twenty-five in just five years. For Good News Friday, we learn more about who they are, and how they...
Should Government Street Open to Shuttle Buses?
Capital Daily - February 10, 2022 13:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTonight, Victoria city council will debate whether to exempt cruise ship tourist shuttles—which drop off an estimated 110,000 passengers downtown per year—from restrictions on driving through the car-free portion of Government Street. To get more insight into the debate, along with what’s being ...
Should Government Street Open to Shuttle Buses?
Capital Daily - February 10, 2022 13:00 - 28 minutesTonight, Victoria city council will debate whether to exempt cruise ship tourist shuttles—which drop off an estimated 110,000 passengers downtown per year—from restrictions on driving through the car-free portion of Government Street. To get more insight into the debate, along with what’s being ...
Assessing the Mental Healthcare Gap as VSAC Loses Long-Term Counselling Due to Lack of Resources
Capital Daily - February 09, 2022 13:00 - 33 minutesFacing a growing waitlist and a funding shortage, the Victoria Sexual Assault Centre has announced it will suspend its long-term counselling program. With the need for crisis support services as high as ever, where do we go from here? We look into the issue with Sam Loppie, Direct Client Service...
Assessing the Mental Healthcare Gap as VSAC Loses Long-Term Counselling Due to Lack of Resources
Capital Daily - February 09, 2022 13:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsFacing a growing waitlist and a funding shortage, the Victoria Sexual Assault Centre has announced it will suspend its long-term counselling program. With the need for crisis support services as high as ever, where do we go from here? We look into the issue with Sam Loppie, Direct Client Service...
The Man Who Taught Without Pay for Ten Years
Capital Daily - February 08, 2022 13:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsFor Black History Month, we look back at the incredible life of John Craven Jones, Salt Spring Island’s first-ever school teacher, through conversations with Silvia Mangue Alene, President of the BC Black History Awareness Society, and Crawford Kilian, author of Go Do Some Great Thing: The Black...
The Man Who Taught Without Pay for Ten Years
Capital Daily - February 08, 2022 13:00 - 12 minutesFor Black History Month, we look back at the incredible life of John Craven Jones, Salt Spring Island’s first-ever school teacher, through conversations with Silvia Mangue Alene, President of the BC Black History Awareness Society, and Crawford Kilian, author of Go Do Some Great Thing: The Black...
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