Editorials Archive

The discovery of unmarked graves at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School has shocked the nation.

On the eve of D-Day, June 6, 1944, 14,000 Canadian soldiers sat shivering in their ships, waiting anxiously for the decision to come. Was the invasion on or not? Originally the plan had been to launch the assault on June 5, 77 years ago today.

With the end of the pandemic in sight, we should start looking at unfinished business — the great ideas that, for one reason or another, never got off the ground. For example: A water taxi between Colwood’s Royal Bay and Victoria.

In a surprising development, a group of 34 public school principals and vice-principals have asked the Labour Relations Board to let them form a union. The group are all members of the Southeast Kootenay Principals’ and Vice-Principals’ Association.

As the COVID-19 outbreak finally shows signs of weakening, it is worth asking what ­lessons have been learned.

It is disappointing, to put it mildly, that Canada’s political leaders have taken so long to get serious about travel restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Criminal behaviour and dysfunction have become intolerable in Beacon Hill Park, once the jewel of the entire region but now somewhere that, in places, many see as a dangerous no-go area.

Tuesday’s provincial budget began with a bang. Finance Minister Selina Robinson revealed that the deficit for last year, estimated just a few weeks ago at $13.6 billion, actually came in much lower, at $8.1 billion. The reason for the $5.

The B.C. Transplant Society has embarked on a delicate, some might say fraught, research study.

When B.C. Finance Minister Selina Robinson brings down her first budget on April 20, she would do well to look at what Quebec has accomplished.