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Photos Martin Dee/University of British Columbia The Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at UBC has received a donation of Northwest Coast art from the late art collector Margaret "Marmie" Perkins Hess.

Katharine McPhee and David Foster. File photo David Foster will head to the altar for the fifth time after the Victoria native proposed to singer-actor Katharine McPhee over the weekend.

The Queen of Oak Bay drew a crowd in Victoria when it was launched Nov. 30, 1980, by the Burrard Yarrows Corp. Photograph By TIMES COLONIST B.C.

Have you seen this Bryant Reeves posters around the city? Photo Bob Kronbauer Some eyebrow-raising posters popped up around town this week featuring the one and only Bryant "Big Country" Reeves.

Blood pythons, apparently, can sometimes get constipated. Photograph By TAMBAKO THE JAGUAR/FLICKR A man in Mission, B.C.

nsnrescue Members of North Shore Rescue make their way to Black Mountain in West Vancouver. photo supplied instagram.

Photo Summer By Rail Instagram An American journalist was in the stands to watch the Vancouver Canadians beat the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes 3-2 on Saturday, June 30. Jacob Wallace is a journalism masters student at American University in Washington D.C.

Photo Bob Kronbauer The Dude Chilling Park sign has been stolen leaving just the signposts remaining in place.

Leon Jensen (left) along with bombardier Bojan Aleksic (centre) and gunner Guan Joseph have a look at the newly-acquired 18 Pounder First World War Howitzer at the Bessborough Armoury.

University of Waterloo climate scientist Blair Feltmate says the scorching heat wave that set records in Ontario and Quebec over the Canada Day long weekend can’t be directly attributed to climate change.