Opinion

Will B.C.’s public schools reopen on time in September? Right now, amongst those close to negotiations, the betting is that yes, willing or not, kids and teachers will be back in their classrooms on Sept. 2.

It’s a scary time to work for a Canadian charity.

Do you know what an Internet troll is? According to the Urban Dictionary : "A person whose sole purpose in life is to seek out people to argue with on the internet over extremely trivial issues.

Eating food in the proper way is a big part of being accepted into a society. Do things the wrong way and you’ll be snickered at, shunned, lectured, bullied and maybe even beaten up. You’d think it would be straightforward.

My friend and McGill University colleague Christopher Ragan has such a sunny disposition and sensible economic views that many of us have thought for years he would be a natural for politics, though for which party is not so clear.

What is it with the B.C. government and expensive, poorly managed computer projects? The Canadian Taxpayers Federation has learned via whistleblowers that B.C. Emergency Health Services, which runs the B.C.

It has a been a hot summer, made more so by the fact that our heat-exchange unit — on which we depend for cooling as well as heat — decided it was time to retire.

It has been quite the summer for revelations about political expense accounts and the pay and perks of politicians.

When the steamship Ancon entered Pacific waters on Aug. 15, 1914, transportation between North America’s east and west coasts changed forever. The Ancon made the journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific in hours.

Canada is an urban nation with more than 80 per cent of its population living in cities or towns. At the dawn of Confederation, the urban/rural split was exactly the opposite.