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Andrew Cohen: Examining Canada’s role in First World War

Andrew Cohen: Examining Canada’s role in First World War

In 1914, Great Britain declared war on Germany. As a dominion of the Empire, Canada was at war, too. It was a wasting conflict — a slaughterhouse, really — killing more Canadians than all of Canada’s wars before or since.
Comment: Top court’s T’silhqot’in decision long overdue

Comment: Top court’s T’silhqot’in decision long overdue

The Supreme Court of Canada’s land-title decision in favour of the T’silhqot’in people poses economic challenges, writes Gwyn Morgan in the July 18 Times Colonist. Of course it does.
Les Leyne: Two more reasons to vote in Victoria civic election

Les Leyne: Two more reasons to vote in Victoria civic election

Two dashes of spice were added to the municipal election scene Tuesday, one in the form of a potential new question on the ballot and one in the form of a big push to create a new candidate for Victoria mayor. A campaign on behalf of former B.C.
Geoff Johnson: Good school boards prevent demagoguery

Geoff Johnson: Good school boards prevent demagoguery

‘Beatings will continue until morale improves” is an old joke often seen pinned on the inside of work cubicles. No joke, however, for Australian schoolchildren if Kevin Donnelly, co-chairman of Australia’s national curriculum review, has his way.
Comment: Government needs new attitude on midwives

Comment: Government needs new attitude on midwives

Based on more than 30 years of practice as a newborn-care specialist and family physician attending births and my research and the research of others, I have great concern that women in B.C.
Filberg Festival in Comox will get its hooks into you

Filberg Festival in Comox will get its hooks into you

Patricia Symes could have retired almost anywhere but the Calgary dentist chose the Comox Valley, in part because of a festival that she fell in love with 10 years ago.
A Boomer Ponders Death #2

A Boomer Ponders Death #2

Death means disappearance from the material realm. When a person dies, that person is no longer accessible to the five senses of those who continue in the tangible realm of sense perception.
Comment: Province cannot neglect the Grace Islet issue

Comment: Province cannot neglect the Grace Islet issue

Forests Minister Steve Thomson’s rationalization for constructing a luxury house on top of a First Nations burial site on Grace Islet is unacceptable.
Mohammed Adam: World has forgotten kidnapped Nigerian girls

Mohammed Adam: World has forgotten kidnapped Nigerian girls

How easily the world forgets. It has been only three months, but it feels like a lifetime since more than 200 Nigerian girls were snatched from their school in the dead of night by the brutal Boko Haram.
Les Leyne: Timing of youth custody centre’s closing still rankles

Les Leyne: Timing of youth custody centre’s closing still rankles

The argument over the closure of the Victoria Youth Custody Centre is over and we lost. Many groups, including this newspaper, campaigned through May and June against the closure, but it took effect this month nonetheless.