Opinion

It’s Friday, which is reason enough to celebrate, but for curling fans this weekend also brings with it the final rocks of the 2013 Ford World Men’s Curling Championship.

Life is complicated, as Winnipeg-born rocket scientist Yvonne Brill, who died last week, must have known all too well.

Today (and by today, I mean Monday, April 1st, when I actually started writing this post), I celebrate a return to routine and regular blogging. It has been a while since Weigh-In Wednesday # 9...but I have been busy, busy, busy.

Goals are funny things. I often start out with one goal in mind only to have it change half way through the journey. So it was with the 2013 Times Colonist Health Challenge, which is coming to a close on Apr. 14.

People seem to be all thumbs these days. As I drive along Douglas Street to and from work, I see people at bus stops or walking along the sidewalks captivated by tiny glowing screens, their thumbs working overtime as they peck out messages.

Before the Opposition New Democrats make any campaign moves, first they need room to move. So they are making a concentrated push to demolish the idea that the provincial budget is balanced.

The teapot tempest surrounding the demise last week of my former organization, the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, and public access to its body of work, will soon pass.

‘We find that almost 56 per cent of elementary students never complete a definite program, receive a certificate or, according to their grades, obtain a good general education,” says the official memorandum from the government Division of Tests and S

It’s hard to say how Independent MLA John van Dongen’s conflict-of-interest complaint against Premier Christy Clark is progressing. But it’s easy to say how he thinks it’s going — not well.

Our province’s bold leadership on fighting climate change while driving the economy was put on ice with the B.C. government’s decision to freeze the carbon tax in its most recent budget.