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Rebels need your support

Rebels need your support

Junior football, it seems, is being lost in the Victoria area. One obvious drawback for the Westshore Rebels is just that – the team name.
David Bly: Flawed Senate better than no Senate at all

David Bly: Flawed Senate better than no Senate at all

It’s easy to hate the Senate if you never talk to any senators. After all, it’s a red-velvet place full of political hacks and has-beens who do nothing but burn up taxpayers’ money on second homes, useless junkets and expensive political dinners.
Les Leyne: Dix quits, but NDP’s problems remain

Les Leyne: Dix quits, but NDP’s problems remain

It was the presumptuous little stunt pulled by the Coquitlam-Maillardville New Democratic Party group that brought home how difficult it is to lead the B.C. NDP.
Comment: VIHA changes hurt nurses and patients alike

Comment: VIHA changes hurt nurses and patients alike

Remarks made by Robyne Maxwell of the Vancouver Island Health Authority in Tuesday’s Times Colonist present, I believe, a misleading picture of a nurse’s work environment under the new model of care delivery rolled out Friday at Nanaimo Regional Gene
Twitter: It's just such a stupid name

Twitter: It's just such a stupid name

I remember the first time I heard about this thing called Twitter. It was a little more than five years ago and I was sitting in an auditorium filled mostly with journalists and students.
Vancouver Island NDP MLAs react to leader's resignation

Vancouver Island NDP MLAs react to leader's resignation

Vancouver Island NDP MLAs say leader Adrian Dix's resignation was the right decision for the party. Here's what several told the Times Colonist after Dix's announcement he would resign but remain as interim leader until a leadership vote next year.
Les Leyne: More school labour strife in the offing

Les Leyne: More school labour strife in the offing

Remember former education minister Don McRae’s advice last year to school districts? He said they should save up some money so they could afford to give pay raises to staff. Such a quaint notion.
Andrew Cohen: Federal NDP seems destined for third place

Andrew Cohen: Federal NDP seems destined for third place

Is Canada creating a new political realignment, which looks an awful lot like the old one? Is it returning to a three-party system in which the Conservatives and the Liberals hold power, alternating with each other, while the New Democrats languish o
Comment: Grandmothers help Africans turn the tide of AIDS

Comment: Grandmothers help Africans turn the tide of AIDS

The Stephen Lewis Foundation’s Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign supports African grandmothers to identify what they need to care for and nurture their grandchildren and other vulnerable children in their care.
Hannah Arendt: The Responsibility of Conscience

Hannah Arendt: The Responsibility of Conscience

Margarethe von Trotta’s new film “Hannah Arendt” has reignited an emotionally charged and important debate that has raged since cultures been aware of the violence that characterizes so much of human behaviour.