Opinion

When I saw the roadside memorial of a rickety white-board cross and faded plastic flowers, it dawned on me. May be this wasn't the tragic scene of a vehicle accident. It could have been a runner mowed down while hugging the side of the road.

B.C. Hydro’s website allows you to track daily electricity usage. It’s part of the utility’s effort to encourage conservation . If you know what you’re using, you might use less of it, the theory goes. Here’s what I discovered about our summer vs.

Ebola continues to spread in Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria, where 932 of the 1,711 infected with the viral hemorrhagic fever have died. This is the worst Ebola pandemic since the disease was discovered in 1976.

It seems hardly possible that a responsible government would, in the words of Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein, employ the “shock doctrine” of manufactured crises when it comes to governing services such as health and education.

There is a long-standing labour-relations adage that “bosses get the union they deserve.” If employers want to deal with a union that is trusting, problem-solving and prepared to listen, they need to behave the same way.

We live in a digital age. Technology has become an integral part of how we see, learn about and interact with the world.

A Victoria cyclist was injured this week when she ran into a van door that opened in front her — a situation sometimes referred to as a “door prize.” (Read about the crash here .

The case of the Australian couple who left their Down syndrome child with his surrogate mother in Thailand is turning into a real mess of he said/she said.

As a retired judge of the provincial court, I read with interest the Aug. 3 Times Colonist editorial on the topic of the high cost of justice in Canada, something that flows from our archaic system of preliminary inquiries, followed by trials.

Today, Capital Regional District directors will consider a proposal to acquire Grace Islet in Ganges Harbour off Saltspring Island for the public purpose of protecting the First Nations burial ground.