Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Visuals and story by James MacDonald
Publication Date: November 1, 2025 - 10:00
Vancouver Island’s last speedway keeps a new generation of drivers at the wheel
November 1, 2025
Unassuming in size, with modest grandstands and a simple pit lane, the Saratoga Speedway transforms over the course of a few short laps into a place filled with thunderous noise, clouds of tire smoke and a few thousand racing fans enjoying the spectacle of the last motorsport track on Vancouver Island.
As developers buy up land, neighbourhoods encroach on old tracks, and noise complaints rise, old tracks around the West Coast have been shut down and converted to cul-de-sacs and residential homes. The oldest track in Western Canada, Westshore Motorsports Park in Langford, B.C., closed down in 2022, after 68 years, leaving Saratoga as the last dedicated track on the island and one of the oldest in the country.
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Nearly two decades ago, a cave regarded as a sacred site by the Songhees Nation was destroyed to make way for the Bear Mountain resort development near Victoria. There were no tangible Indigenous artifacts at the site, in an area called Spaet by the Songhees, so the provincial archeologists involved said there was no obligation to preserve it under B.C.’s existing Heritage Conservation Act of 1996.
November 22, 2025 - 08:30 | Frances Bula | The Globe and Mail
One person is dead and two others are injured after they got hit by a REM train on Montreal's South Shore.
November 22, 2025 - 07:29 | | CBC News - Canada
This is from a story about the scalping of British settlers and militia by Mi’kmaq warriors in what became known as the “Dartmouth Massacre” on May 13, 1751, from John Wilson’s eyewitness account: “These Indians chain the unfortunate prisoner to a large thick tree, and bind his hands and his feet, then beginning from the middle of the craneum, they cut quite round towards the neck; this being done, they then tear off the skin, leaving the skull bare; an inflammation quickly follows, the patient fevers, and dies in the most exquisite tortures.”
Wilson’s account is not the only record...
November 22, 2025 - 07:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
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