Opinion

A couple of summers ago, a brave young boy about 10 years old knocked on our front door and, a little breathlessly, indicated he was in need of assistance. No wonder.

Environment Minister Steve Thomson’s statement explaining his decision to issue the heritage-site alteration permit at Grace Islet (“The search for balance at Grace Islet,” Times Colonist, July 23) under the pretence of striking a “balance” between a

The B.C. Prosperity Fund is still holding at zero 18 months after it was announced, but billions of the dollars that are expected to flow into it are already committed. Which raises the spectre of a slight problem.

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.

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.

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.

‘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.

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.

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.

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.