Editorials Archive

The Victoria Police Department has announced a new project titled #WarrantWednesday. The idea is to devote Wednesdays to tracking down criminals with outstanding arrest warrants.

It is becoming clearer by the day that B.C.’s carbon tax is not working as originally promised. When then-premier Gordon Campbell introduced the levy in 2008, his government assured us it would be “revenue neutral.

The COVID-19 vaccines in circulation represent not just our best option for taming the epidemic, they are a huge step forward in the war on disease. That’s because they employ a completely new ­technique in fighting infection.

The COVID-19 pandemic will be over someday — maybe this year, thanks to vaccines, and maybe with a whimper, or maybe with a bang. We need to start planning for what our community, and our world, will look like.

The spectacle of Canadian politicians flouting travel restrictions has brought an already unloved profession into outright disrepute.

So as a new decade dawns upon us, will we see a rerun of the Roaring Twenties, or a re-do of the Dirty Thirties? The answer lies in what the COVID-19 virus holds in store for us.

Who is the Person of the Year? Who made the biggest ­difference in our lives in this terrible year of 2020? At this time every year we are asked “Who is the Person of the Year?” In a year that has been so different than any other, maybe we need to lo

If anything can be learned from history, there might be no better example than Christmas in 1920, a century ago. There was much to celebrate this week in 1920, as can be seen in the pages of the old Victoria Daily Times and the Daily Colonist.

A number of readers have wondered why B.C. Ferries is laying on 23 extra sailings over the Christmas period. Isn’t non-essential travel discouraged? The answer to that question is yes, but it is only discouraged, not forbidden.

Public health experts now believe the COVID-19 epidemic will continue well into next year and quite possibly beyond. That means masks and social distancing are going to remain part of our lives for some time to come.