Opinion

Charla Huber: The happy truth behind being annoyingly optimistic

Comment: Keep sewage sludge off farms, fields and forests

Les Leyne: Ferry arguments raise doubts about plans

Susan Delacourt: A divided Commons, a fractured country

Adrian Raeside cartoon: What the B.C. budget means to residents

Les Leyne: Auto deal looks and smells dirty — but it’s legal

Editorial: B.C. budget figures reveal deterioration in province’s ...

Adrian Raeside cartoon: Protests and the Canadian economy

Les Leyne: Borrowing is ballooning for building projects

Susan Delacourt: Good intentions send us on collision course with raw...

Les Leyne: Remarkable organizing prowess fuels protests

Adrian Raeside cartoon: Premier’s reaction to pipeline protests

Editorial: Condo owners need help in dealing with insurance crisis

Les Leyne: Balancing right to protest and rule of law is a tightrope ...

Comment: Behind the protests, two conflicting systems

Comment: Whose land? Whose laws? B.C. needs to change its name

Lawrie McFarlane: Pipeline fight a symptom of the Indigenous divide

Island Voices: B.C. must act to protect spawning beaches

Island Voices: Film ventures to the heart of a rapidly heating B.C.

Island Voices: ’Fess up, Mr. Horgan, you picked your Indians

Island Voices: ‘No fault’ insurance in B.C. will hurt us all

Monique Keiran: Blockades show the vulnerability of our food chain

Geoff Johnson: Stuttering can be overcome, but don’t ignore it, ...

Trevor Hancock: Our ethical duties to the future

See More Letters

Letters, Feb. 23: Emily Carr House, amalgamation

Letters, Feb. 22: Taxing the rich, idling cars and blockades

Letters, Feb. 21: dangers of anarchy; social change not easy; who are hereditary chiefs?

Letters, Feb. 20: B.C. budget, pipeline protests

See More Life

Eric Akis: Pork belly, with a French flair

Victoria Beer Week takes delicious dive into food pairing

B. Smith, model turned lifestyle guru, dead at 70

Discover the Wonders of Cowichan

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Search underway for scout leaders who became separated from group near Shirley

Doctor became grateful patient, thanks in part to new MRI technology

Wait times for ministry help too long, watchdog says

Discover the Wonders of Cowichan

See More B.C. News

Teck withdraws application for Frontier mine, citing discourse over ...

Blockades remain in place as Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs returning...

B.C. money laundering inquiry to begin amid hopes for answers, ...

Governor general says multiple solutions needed for 'complicated' ...

See More Entertainment

Stage Left: Pacific Opera Victoria’s delightful Flight achieves liftoff

'Schitt's Creek,' 'Anne with an E' big winners at ACTRA Awards in Toronto

Lizzo, Nyong'o, Eddie Murphy vying for NAACP Image Awards

Unscripted 'Friends' reunion special to launch with HBO Max

See More National News

The blockade stays put and Teck withdraws; In The News for Feb. 24

Rail blockade by Tyendinaga Mohawk remains after police deadline passes

Statistics Canada set to reveal new data on poverty rates

Alberta Court of Appeal to rule on whether federal carbon tax should stand

BC

Attempted theft of seaplane ends with collision in Vancouver harbour

The Canadian Press

VANCOUVER — An attempt to steal a float plane in Vancouver's harbour didn't make it out of the water, but three planes were damaged in the botched theft.Vancouver police Const. Tanya Visintin says . . .

Real Estate

Greater Victoria housing market ‘vulnerable’: CMHC

Andrew Duffy / Times Colonist

For the second consecutive fiscal quarter, Victoria has bucked a national trend when it comes to the vulnerability of its housing market, according to a new report from the Canada Mortgage and . . .

Local

Jack Knox: For 66th birthday, Chris Coleman wants you to fill cup with kindness

Jack Knox / Times Colonist

Chris Coleman has made a habit out of turning his birthdays into do-goodery. Six years ago, when he hit 60, he raised $10,000 in cash and books for children’s literacy. At 45, he celebrated . . .

Editorials

Les Leyne: Ferry arguments raise doubts about plans

Les Leyne / Times Colonist

There’s a certain amount of friction behind the scenes among B.C. Ferries, the NDP government and the independent ferries commissioner. It leaves the impression B.C. Ferries will have to trim its. . .

Local

She got her gun back, then she killed herself

Louise Dickson / Times Colonist

Cpl. Brent Robertson was at his desk in Langford on the morning of July 11, 2018, when he overheard people talking about the suicide of former RCMP officer Krista Carlé a few days earlier. . . .

Local

Son a ‘hero’ for safely landing plane without propeller

Cindy E. Harnett / Times Colonist

The father of a 26-year-old pilot who safely landed a small plane in a blueberry patch in Saanich after the engine quit and the propeller fell off calls his son a hero. “He did every single thing. . .

Local

Say hello to Island Aurora and Island Discovery, new hybrid ferries

Carla Wilson / Times Colonist

The first bottle of See Ya Later bubbly smashed against the hull of the Island Discovery to christen B.C. Ferries’ brand-new hybrid-electric vessel. A second bottle was then let loose to explode . . .

Op-Ed

Comment: Whose land? Whose laws? B.C. needs to change its name

Nicholas XEMŦOLTW̱ Claxton,  John Price / Times Colonist

In his amazing 2016 exhibit “Unceded Territories,” Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun called for the renaming of British Columbia (#RenameBC). Almost all of the province is unceded, he said at the time: “. . .

Local

Man missing for eight years, family finds him in Victoria

Jack Knox / Times Colonist

For eight gut-wrenching years, Dan Thanh Vo’s family thought he was dead. Then, in November, came the stunning news: Dan, living with severe mental illness, had been found on the streets in . . .

Local

Jack Knox: Want to change my mind? Don’t punch me in the head

Jack Knox / Times Colonist

Just for a second, put aside your feelings — for or against — about the natural gas pipeline opposed by Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs in northern B.C. Ask yourself instead: What if it were . . .

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