13 years missing: woman’s disappearance continues to puzzle Victoria police

Few cases puzzle VicPD detectives as much as the disappearance of Emma Fillipoff, now marking 13 years without answers. The 26-year-old was last seen on Nov. 28, 2012, walking barefoot nearby Victoria’s Empress Hotel on Government Street. On the night she vanished, officers checked on Fillipoff around 7 p.m. after an acquaintance who saw her

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Giving voice to the stillness of winter in Maple Ridge

One of Canada’s most unique choral ensembles is coming to Maple Ridge to give an uplifting and timeless holiday performance. Musica intima Vocal Ensemble, along with the Triology Jazz Ensemble will be performing “Winter Morning Walks”, originally a multiple GRAMMY award-winning album of two song cycles by composer and arranger Maria Schnieder Schnieder has won

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B.C. tech revitalizing Indigenous languages at risk of falling silent

It’s said that one language dies every day and that roughly 6,000 others are at risk of going silent around the world. But a Victoria company is determined to bring these fading languages back to the forefront and prevent the loss of their culture and history. Language Foundry, formerly known as the Cultural Foundry Studio,

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