Toxic Drug Deaths Hit Record High, But Activists Are Still Optimistic

In 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 wall.In 2019, Capital Daily, a local news and investigative journalism outlet, embarked on a quest for new information about the unsolved murder that continues to haunt the community, Lindsay’s many friends, and her family. The intent was to separate fact from fiction. Now, people who had sworn off doing another interview are re-breaking their silence. And people who were close with Lindsay are giving extended interviews for the first time.With this new podcast series, Capital Daily is finally ready to reveal its reporting, with new details from people who were there. With unexpected twists and turns. And with a glimmer of hope. Fifteen years after Lindsay’s murder, a new story is ready to be told by investigative journalist Zander Sherman and Capital Daily.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 – 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.Today's episode is sponsored by United Way Southern Vancouver Island and the Capital Daily Speaker Series with Dr. Andrew Huberman.Get more stories like this in your inbox every morning by subscribing to our daily newsletter at CapitalDaily.ca   Check our membership opportunity at CapitalDaily.ca/Member  And subscribe to us on our socials!  Twitter @CapitalDailyVic  Instagram @CapitalDaily  Facebook @CapitalDailyVic  

Capital 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 in our population.  Today's episode is sponsored by St. Margaret's School and Tresah.  Get more stories like this in your inbox every morning by subscribing to our daily newsletter at CapitalDaily.ca   Check our membership opportunity at CapitalDaily.ca/Member  And subscribe to us on our socials!  Twitter @CapitalDailyVic    Instagram @CapitalDaily    Facebook @CapitalDailyVic  

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.  Today's episode is sponsored by Flux and Stone and 8X Real Estate. Get more stories like this in your inbox every morning by subscribing to our daily newsletter at CapitalDaily.ca   Check our membership opportunity at CapitalDaily.ca/Member  And subscribe to us on our socials!  Twitter @CapitalDailyVic    Instagram @CapitalDaily    Facebook @CapitalDailyVic  

Nearly 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-laden Pacific Coast. We speak with lightkeepers Justine Etzkorn and Karen Zacharuk about a life lived “on the lights.” Today's episode is sponsored by The Modern Mercantile and the Capital Daily Speaker Series with Dr. Andrew Huberman. Get more stories like this in your inbox every morning by subscribing to our daily newsletter at CapitalDaily.ca   Check our membership opportunity at CapitalDaily.ca/Member  And subscribe to us on our socials!  Twitter @CapitalDailyVic   Instagram @CapitalDaily   Facebook @CapitalDailyVic   

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’s headed, and how it feeds into “the Ubuntu spirit of communal self-reliance.”  Today's episode is sponsored by Fatso and Tide to Table, by Walcan Seafood.  Get more stories like this in your inbox every morning by subscribing to our daily newsletter at CapitalDaily.ca   Check our membership opportunity at CapitalDaily.ca/Member  And subscribe to us on our socials!  Twitter @CapitalDailyVic    Instagram @CapitalDaily    Facebook @CapitalDailyVic   

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.  Today's episode is sponsored by the Victoria Conservatory of Music and The Vista.  Get more stories like this in your inbox every morning by subscribing to our daily newsletter at CapitalDaily.ca   Check our membership opportunity at CapitalDaily.ca/Member  And subscribe to us on our socials!  Twitter @CapitalDailyVic    Instagram @CapitalDaily    Facebook @CapitalDailyVic   

A 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 speak with Capital Daily reporter Jolene Rudisuela.  Get more stories like this in your inbox every morning by subscribing to our daily newsletter at CapitalDaily.ca  Check our membership opportunity at CapitalDaily.ca/Member   And subscribe to us on our socials!  Twitter @CapitalDailyVic  Instagram @CapitalDaily    Facebook @CapitalDailyVic   

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.   Today's episode is sponsored by the Bay Centre and Coastal Community Credit Union.   Get more stories like this in your inbox every morning by subscribing to our daily newsletter at CapitalDaily.ca   Check our membership opportunity at CapitalDaily.ca/Member  And subscribe to us on our socials!  Twitter @CapitalDailyVic    Instagram @CapitalDaily    Facebook @CapitalDailyVic