Opinion

The B.C. legislature will try to make amends today for the racist provincial policies and attitude that led to the Chinese head tax. I wonder what all the long-gone newspaper hacks — my professional ancestors — would make of the day’s events.

Labour Minister Shirley Bond says the B.C. government is contemplating opening a provincial registry of employers who are using temporary foreign workers, given the intense recent interest in the program.

Long-time Canadian Labour Congress president Ken Georgetti was defeated for re-election on May 8 at the CLC’s triennial Congress in Montreal. His defeat was akin to a palace coup supported by activists and fuelled by frustration.

The Tour de Rock riders and I were still buzzing from the official team presentation on Friday — a whirl of cheering Reynolds Secondary students, shiny new bikes and camera flashes — when we gathered Saturday morning at the Saanich police station for

Ganga Jolicoeur Integrating midwives more fully into the health-care system can help relieve pressure on rural physicians, improve health outcomes and save health-care dollars.

I have always admired faithful adherents of every religious tradition. Buddhists monks, Catholic nuns, Muslim Imams, and Humanist chaplains just to name a few of those I have held in high esteem.

If you’re in North America, you likely use Google as your gateway to the Internet, typing in search words to zero in on what you’re after. But using Google exclusively can give you a truncated view of the Internet.

Frenemies John Horgan and Bill Bennett have elevated the contentious, semi-friendly bickering argument that will likely last the rest of their lives.

Some years ago, I was privileged to be part of a design team that had taken on the development of a new secondary school — a school for the 21st century, or so we hoped.

While the UN Food and Agriculture Organization is urgently encouraging countries throughout the world to protect their agricultural lands, the B.C. Liberal government’s Bill 24 would reduce ours.