Opinion

I love Canada. I love our unique and diverse communities that welcome people from around the world. They represent different countries, different cultures and different religions, but they are all welcome here.

The political landscape is upside down when the Conservative party is the big social-policy spender. But that’s what Prime Minister Stephen Harper has done with his new $5-billion Family Tax Plan.

The World Trade Organization last month published World Tariff Profiles 2014, its annual review of its 160-member countries’ tariff schedules — a real page-turner, as you might imagine. It doesn’t actually list every country’s tariffs.

The First Nations Child and Caring Society and the Assembly of First Nations launched a complaint with the Human Rights Commission more than seven years ago, saying the federal government discriminates against aboriginal children by providing less fo

As citizens of a beautiful province, British Columbians need to step outside the box and find new ways to include nature in our lives, and in the ways we govern ourselves.

One of the great things about being the web editor is that my mistakes never last for long. If someone points out a typo, I can just correct it and carry on with my life like nothing happened.* It's not like we're writing this stuff down in ink . . .

I haven’t done a scientific survey, but it seems as if more restaurants are using a pay-before-you-eat format. Three restaurants that recently opened in downtown Victoria operate this way.

I have just returned from Phoenix, Arizona, with two new hips. I flew there on Sept. 21, had the left hip replaced on Sept. 24 and the right one on Oct. 9. I flew home on Oct. 26 walking with a cane.

Make no mistake — drugs are big business, even the behind-the-counter kind. Last year, the B.C. government spent $1.2 billion on PharmaCare.

The world is already witnessing severe impacts of climate change on lives and livelihoods. Global damage from climate change and fossil-fuel development was estimated at $1.2 trillion in 2010, or 1.