Opinion

Black-and-orange day instead of Halloween. Winter break instead of Christmas holidays. And little to no mention of any celebrations. No, I’m not describing an imaginary, lifeless, robotic town, but rather the reality of our public school system.

I’m not racist. There’s a lot of talk about racism in the news these days. People are thinking about overt racism and hidden racism, and this is great. It’s time to look at our history, and how actions in the past have led to this point in time.

Advanced Education Minister Amrik Virk thought he was free and clear of the nagging questions that developed last summer over his role in a Surrey university’s effort to finesse its way around salary limits and disclosure requirements.

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation’s Jordan Bateman (“Don’t rush down the amalgamation aisle,” Nov. 23) has significant homework to do on the subject of amalgamation in British Columbia.

B.C. Ferries recently completed our 2015 second-quarter operations and posted a profit for this period. When this happens, people often ask us why, given the positive results, B.C. Ferries doesn’t use the profit to lower fares.

In the excitement of several capital region communities voting for an amalgamation study, there seems to be a rush to get these cities down the aisle and married off as quickly as possible.

In recent years, many park biffies around here have provided hand cleanser for après-business sanitation. Recurring epidemics of influenza and other illnesses have raised the value of personal fastidiousness.

Ageism can take many forms; however, like any discrimination it has, at its core, a desire to stereotype an entire group of people. Last month we celebrated the United Nations International Day of the Older Person.

When the European Space Agency landed a spacecraft on the surface of a comet on Nov. 12, it was big news.

The association of private power producers released a report this week comparing the Site C hydro dam proposal unfavourably with their preferred option — lots of smaller projects dispersed around B.C. Then Clean Energy B.