Opinion

Most of those who signed the petition presented this week demanding B.C. Ferries be moved under direct government control did so thinking a major change is what’s needed.

The scene is a busy street in Mumbai, India. The car traffic is constant. Crosswalk stripes are painted on the pavement, and packs of pedestrians cross. But the cars never stop.

I was astonished to see Lawrie McFarlane recently write in the Times Colonist that the current “first past the post” electoral system in B.C. encourages “honesty” in political campaigns. (“NDP electoral-reform plan is a cynical ploy,” Feb.

Congregation Emanu-El Synagogue, 1461 Blanshard Street, Victoria presents “An Afternoon with Reverend Allen Tysick” on Sunday, March 1 at 2:00 pm .

Recently, I was in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), at the World Congress of Public Health. My visit got me musing again about the importance of clean water, good sanitation and food hygiene and safety.

Two question periods is all it took for a lucrative field of endeavour to potentially dry up and blow away.

In Australia, the land of my birth, a “dummy” is not a term describing a foolish person; it is slang for a baby’s soother. When baby has a little tantrum, the dummy is the first thing to come out of his mouth.

They were laughing on both sides of the legislature Monday as Advanced Education Minister Andrew Wilkinson took an initial stab at defending the indefensible. But different kinds of laughs.

Let me answer that for you: Not bloody likely.

It interested me to learn that many Jews credited talking about food and exchanging recipes with helping them to survive World War II. Jewish women made pacts with each other to remember and share each other’s exact recipes.