Editorials Archive

It is no exaggeration to say that whichever party wins the Oct. 24 election, the face of our province will be altered for years to come. And not in a good way.

A group of mayors from across the province want municipal taxing powers expanded.

From mid-March to mid-April, as many as 70 to 80 new cases of COVID-19 were being reported daily. While those figures declined to the low teens between May and early July, since then we’ve seen a slow climb back up again.

Forest fires have burned more than two million hectares across the western United States this year, causing smoke to blanket parts of Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland. For days on end in September, air quality in several B.C.

Premier John Horgan has been accused of opportunism in the way he broke his word by calling an election a year earlier than scheduled — and some of his supporters have risen to his defence, saying that any politician with Horgan’s level of popularity

Voters in Victoria are getting an election that most did not want, not quite yet, but are not getting a chance to vote in an election that they need. What is wrong with this picture? On Oct.

Colwood Mayor Rob Martin is eager to see a commuter ferry running between Royal Bay and downtown Victoria. He is right. We should all get on board — the idea first, and in a few years, the ferry itself.

By the day it becomes ever more clear that our governments, federal, provincial and municipal, have no idea how to deal with homelessness.

As children and their families prepare for schools reopening, everyone has questions. Parents are concerned for their children’s safety, and about the possibility they may bring the COVID-19 virus home with them.

It appears changes forced by the COVID-19 pandemic may finally bring some good news. For years, large numbers of British Columbians have been unable to find a family physician. Instead, we searched the B.C.