Opinion

Now that the RCMP are investigating, it’s pretty much guaranteed that the Senate expense scandal will have a devastating impact on the people involved. But it’s Canada that has suffered the worst damage in this scandal. Fortunately, it’s repairable.

Name-calling, someone once said, is the last refuge of the intellectually bankrupt.

You must have known that Canada has strong ties to the Queen.If you don’t like the way things are done here, then why did you come to Canada? I really don’t get it.

The way that I discovered the historic Tudor House Pub in Esquimalt had burned down was when I awoke at 6 a.m. and found an e-mail from a reader who had sent us several photos and a video.

After every election, a new surge of lobbying begins by interest groups and organizations. The B.C. Liberals can expect to be swamped with requests for meetings, ideas for policy changes, demands for new programs and appeals for insider information.

A birthday is another milestone on the road to oblivion. At an age where reality bleeds into dream and dream into reality, the anniversary of one’s birth can be less a time of celebration and more a time of summing up.

When an eight-storey building collapsed in Bangladesh in April killing more than 1,100 garment workers, the rescue response was agonizingly slow.

‘Incredible,” she said. “It’s evening, we’re eating outside, and there are no mosquitoes. We’d never be able to do this down east.” “It’s Victoria’s secret,” I told her. “If the rest of the country knew how few mosquitoes we had, we’d be overrun.

On a quiet afternoon in the legislature with scarcely any attention, Finance Minister Mike de Jong attempted to explain the most jarring political contradiction in B.C. (next to the “New” in “New Democratic Party”). The B.C.

Canada’s submarines are effective at deep-sixing taxpayer dollars. Bought second-hand from the British in 1998, the four Victoria-class vessels have suffered serious accidents and expensive mechanical problems.