Editorials Archive

The $8 million for fixes to the Malahat highway will be money well spent. The improvements will help make the hilly road a little safer, a little easier to negotiate.

Esquimalt didn’t want the region’s new sewage plant, but it does want the heat from the plant. It’s a reasonable request, and the Capital Regional District should try to make it work.

The slow drip of information about the B.C. Health Ministry scandal continues to torture British Columbians. Even as they learn more about the unauthorized release of research data, taxpayers are still groping for answers.

The Liberals can dig themselves out of a mess today by reversing a widely condemned decision to deny auditor general John Doyle a second term. But even if they acknowledge the blunder, that should not end this matter.

British Columbians will take a leap into the digital future when their new B.C. Services Cards become available next month, but the leap could leave the province’s privacy commissioner behind. Starting on Feb.

The Washington State Ferries fleet, which supports one of the largest and busiest ferry systems in the world, needs new boats. Nine of its vessels are between 40 and 65 years old. In ferry-speak: they’re ancient.

The Enbridge pipeline hearings in Victoria last week were, in one important respect, a total failure. The intent was to give concerned citizens an opportunity to be present while an important public matter was debated.

Although a statement credited to Education Minister Don McRae that standardized testing is optional was quickly retracted, we wonder if it was a Freudian slip. Are the B.C.

The Courtenay radio station that fired a host after he asked Premier Christy Clark a sexually charged question says the termination is a personnel matter and an internal decision and would not comment further.

Banning kitchen scraps from a landfill? What’s next, outlawing landfills altogether? Why not? The Capital Regional District is moving closer to that point with its strategy to turn all kitchen scraps into compost by 2015, reducing by nearly 30 per ce