Opinion

HARRY BRECHNER When the Jewish New Year begins at sundown tonight, it’s the culmination of a month when we ask ourselves questions that everyone — Jews and non-Jews — should ask in their quest to become better people.

Natalia Corrigall runs around the Campbell River Commons with her little sister, Annabelle, still excited from her first day of kindergarten at Pinecrest Elementary.

In Hebrew, Rosh Hashanah means, literally, "head of the year" or "first of the year." Rosh Hashanah is commonly known as the Jewish New Year. There is, however, one important similarity between the Jewish New Year and other New Years.

First, there was the out-of-left-field announcement last week that the government will study the feasibility of building a bridge to Gabriola Island from the Nanaimo region.

Canada is rich in natural resources, including both renewable and non-renewable.

Torrance Coste Have you ever had a friend who just won’t listen when everyone is telling them to get out of an unhealthy relationship? That’s what comes to mind when I think of the B.C. government’s relationship with tree-farm licences.

At the northern tip of Vancouver Island, in a quiet village of 805 people, cradled between a tree-covered mountainside and the Neroutsos Inlet, our 13-vehicle convoy rolls in, lights and sirens blazing.

The 21 st century greeted this world with the promise of the answers to the wars and hunger and disease. But a year into this new era, these hopes came crashing down with the Twin Towers in New York.

Riding public transit between downtown Victoria and downtown Vancouver, with plenty of help from B.C. Ferries, can be a hassle.

Cowboy boots. Check. Epic country band in a cool venue. Check. Jack Knox in a bedazzled, heart-and-clover embroidered cowboy shirt...