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Les Leyne: Rush review of ICBC is pointless

Comment: Council’s statue decision is unsettling in a good way

Zofia Rogowski: Council did right thing in a good way

Maclean Kay: Council did right thing the wrong way

Editorial: A new statutory holiday

Les Leyne: Mayors want a taste of pot revenue

Les Leyne: It is taking much too long to kill the bots

Comment: Statue debate shows that more voices are being heard

Les Leyne: Lost the case, but won the raise

Pamela Madoff: City council must regain the confidence of citizens

Editorial: Put more patients on doctors’ board

Comment: Police-station welcome pole was sign of reconciliation

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Times Colonist

Steve Wallace: How to prepare for a rear-end collision

Steve Wallace / Times Colonist

The rear-end crash is the most common type of vehicle collision. Despite the latest technological advances, this crash can be very dramatic and result in significant injury, even at relatively . . .

Op-Ed

Island Voices: Housing first shouldn’t mean neighbourhoods come second

Stephen Hammond / .

I can relate to the people living near the Saanich and Nanaimo tent cities. Having lived by Victoria’s tent city two years ago, I know firsthand the dangers with some of the people who are . . .

Local

New floating boardwalk being installed at Swan Lake

Jeff Bell / Times Colonist

Construction on the new floating portion of the boardwalk at the Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary got underway Wednesday, with crews from Knappett Projects using a crane to put the first . . .

Local

Jack Knox: Battling and punishing the queue jumpers at B.C. Ferries terminals

Jack Knox / Times Colonist

I saw them catch a queue-jumper at the Tsawwassen ferry terminal last week. The driver had tried sneaking out of a going-nowhere lane and into one that was boarding. Fortunately, before he got . . .

Local

B.C. Ferries customers faced sailing waits at all major terminals on Monday

Carla Wilson / Times Colonist

On Monday afternoon, B.C. Ferries was reporting sailing waits for motor vehicles at its major terminals — Swartz Bay, Tsawwassen, Horseshoe Bay, Departure Bay and Duke Point. There were . . .

Local

Multi-sailing waits for much of Sunday at Swartz Bay, Tsawwassen

Carla Wilson / Times Colonist

Motorists travelling Sunday on B.C. Ferries between Swartz Bay and Tsawwassen faced two- and three-sailing waits into the evening. A 8:50 p.m. there was still a one-sailing wait. With the 9 p.m.. . .

Op-Ed

Zofia Rogowski: Council did right thing in a good way

Zofia Rogowski / Times Colonist

My first reaction to the news that the statue of Sir John A. Macdonald would be removed from Victoria’s city hall was fear. I knew it would bring out the residential-school defenders. The genocide . . .

Islander

Changing of the helicopter guard: Cyclone ‘leaps ahead’ of Sea Kings

Jeff Bell / Times Colonist

It’s easy to tell that the most recent addition to the 443 Maritime Helicopter Squadron fleet — a CH-148 Cyclone helicopter — is fresh from the manufacturer. “Some of them still have the new-car . . .

Local

Lifetime ban from Empress for pepperoni seagull fiasco has been lifted

Katie DeRosa / Times Colonist

After he inadvertently trashed one of its room with packs of pepperoni and a flock of seagulls, the Empress Hotel has granted a Nova Scotia man a pardon and lifted a lifetime ban. Seventeen years. . .

Opinion

To stay cool, leave house windows closed or open?

Phillip Jang / Times Colonist

The assumption here is that you want to keep your house as cool as possible in hot weather without resorting to air conditioning.

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