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Comment: Morden Mine structure needs help now

Comment: Morden Mine structure needs help now

Will the re-election of the B.C.
Monique Keiran: Information helps make ocean-wise choices

Monique Keiran: Information helps make ocean-wise choices

With vomiting harbour porpoises becoming stranded in Patricia Bay, humpback whales colliding with boats off the north Island, dead whales found drifting near Tofino and poison-laden orca starving off Victoria, our coastal wonderland seems to be anyth
Comment: Mars One an exercise in manipulation

Comment: Mars One an exercise in manipulation

The American Idol-style audition process for those who want to take part in the proposed Mars One project to build a human outpost on Mars will provide a great laboratory for the study of human systems.
Geoff Johnson: Social-media genie can come back to haunt

Geoff Johnson: Social-media genie can come back to haunt

The attempt by the Vancouver Board of Education to stuff the social-media genie back in the lamp is certainly well-intentioned and the policy, if successfully implemented, might at least provide a platform on which disciplinary action can be consider
Les Leyne: Bill Bennett is actually minister for cutting costs

Les Leyne: Bill Bennett is actually minister for cutting costs

The sleeper in Premier Christy Clark’s new cabinet lineup is Bill Bennett, minister responsible for core review. There are senior bureaucrats who are twitching uneasily this morning at all that that entails.
The Everest Pilgrimage

The Everest Pilgrimage

P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }A:link { } It was a little more than 60 years ago that two brave explorers, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, summitted the world’s tallest peak - Mt. Everest.
Comment: Equalization unfair to ‘have’ provinces

Comment: Equalization unfair to ‘have’ provinces

Last summer, the Vancouver Canucks tried everything to get power forward Shane Doan signed as a free agent. Doan would have been a huge help, stabilizing the Canucks’ second line and providing much-needed grit and scoring.
Shannon Corregan: Don’t blame victims for harassment

Shannon Corregan: Don’t blame victims for harassment

It’s happened to me before and it will happen again, but I’m still annoyed about it. I was standing in my driveway, awkwardly juggling purse and keys and sunglasses, when two men in a coupe swung up next to me.
Les Leyne: Transition allowance an irritating perk

Les Leyne: Transition allowance an irritating perk

It’s a measure of how quietly and comfortably politicians are taken care of that Premier Christy Clark could effectively get fired and not even notice it in her bank account.
David Bly: Local museums don’t taint past with politics

David Bly: Local museums don’t taint past with politics

The current federal government seems to be trying to put its imprint on history with the renaming of the Canadian Museum of Civilization to the Canadian Museum of History, a comprehensive review of Canadian history by a committee of Conservative MPs,