Times Colonist - 2016-12-16

• B.C. will lend first-time homebuyers up to $37,500
• Gifts shore up isolated ship crews
• HELPING THE NEEDY
• Alan Thicke’s love affair with Victoria
• Ottawa moves to ban asbestos by 2018
• CALENDAR: Handel’s Messiah, Aladdin, Daniel Lapp, Huron Carole, Mamma Mia!
• Manuscript­s open new worlds
• Shelters say they’re coping well with the cold
• Overdose-prevention rooms open: ‘Everyone was OK’
• Advice from Esquimalt: Take a deep breath
• New sewage-project boss to get $312,000 a year
• Transit considerin­g new student bus pass: chair
• Anglers offered reward for catch
• CRD hits brakes on regional transport service
• ‘Guerrilla archiving’ targets Trump
• Drug crisis affects funeral homes
• 40-km/h speed limit makes no sense
• Regulatory tangle ensnares immigrant kids
• EDITORIALS Sewage déjà vu looms over CRD
• The battle within
• Housing for troubled people need not be expensive
• Politician­s will party while people go hungry
• Changes throughout 2016 have impact on wallet
• Coast Capital to expand beyond B.C.
• Victoria to help lead provincial economy: Central 1 Credit Union
• Four children, dad feared dead in fire
• Loonie, gold sink as U.S dollar soars
• Quebec, Ontario sign $1B hydro-power deal
• Montreal mayor vows to shut illegal marijuana dispensari­es
• Central bank says household debt is our Achilles heel
• CREA expects fewer home sales across the country next year
• Medical pot ready for takeoff in Edmonton
• Sobeys parent profit plummets
• Trudeau maps two tracks in bid to assuage indigenous peoples
• Prison riot leaves inmate dead in Saskatchew­an
• Less ice plays havoc with polar bears
• Bloodied, tearful Syrians leave Aleppo
• Man convicted on all counts in church slaughter of nine
• Facebook takes new steps to curb spread of fake news
• Putin ordered hacking, White House suggests
• Six per cent of U.S. Zika pregnancie­s end in defects, study finds
• Older hockey players advised to carry on
• Researcher­s urge caution in opioid prescripti­on
• Muscle disease often not identified
• How a seasonal card can help free those unjustly locked up
• Hitler’s tapestry returning to Germany
• Rogue One is up with the best
• Obama actor practised on street
• Star-packed take on love and loss falls wide of mark
• He’s the b’y that built the Bays
• Two more wins on Grizzlies’ Christmas wish list
• Canucks’ Desjardins on firing line?
• King of Bear Mountain will defend crown
• Holland returns to burn Leafs in shootout
• Canadian world hockey juniors short on star power
• Hybrid tech gets more affordable
• Big, tough, potent and proud of it
• Aston’s DB4 is back — for a price
• Beautiful, thrilling and stylish
• Michigan law permits cars with no steering wheels
• Winter is here, learn how to deal with it
• Sedan’s tight handling tops the competitio­n
• VW launches new full-size tall-wagon entry
• U.S. to require cars to be able to talk to each other
• Pacer was so ugly, it’s now a collectibl­e
• With timing belts, follow the recommenda­tions

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