Opinion

Not too long ago, I was chatting with a co-worker about the poor service she’d received while shopping.

It’s too late to cancel the Sochi Olympics. But it isn’t too late to make sure Sochi is the last incredibly stupid choice of location for a major international sports event.

A modest suggestion to reflect the new reality in B.C. politics: Any pollster, pundit or political scientist who predicts an election should be required to carry a wand, wear a long purple robe and wear a wizard’s hat while doing so.

It has been two years since the last federal election, with two years until the next one. This puts the Conservatives halfway through their third term of office, which has been listless and unimaginative.

Being an ordinary member of Parliament is a tough job. There is the travel, the long hours in Ottawa away from family and friends, and the distance from cabinet decision-making.

The Times Colonist Health Challenge was over, my period of active rest was done, I had just lost an additional 6.3 pounds by drinking wine and eating halibut...

The coastal forest industry wants to set the record straight.

The stigma that comes with any diagnosis of dementia is one of the biggest challenges a person facing the diagnosis will have according to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research .

A Vancouver Island river renowned for its fish — including two endangered runs of steelhead and five species of wild salmon — is being dammed and diverted into a pipe to produce hydro power.

There is likely no more abused phrase than “it’s just common sense.” Politicians use the phrase to justify even the most unlikely proposition as, do activists of every stripe.