Opinion

The passage of Quebec’s assisted-dying bill last week has spurred the usual round of debate, in which healthy people claim to know what’s best for total strangers whose personal agonies are unknown and unimaginable to the debaters.

I’ve always loved the view from the top of the Malahat — fir trees cradling the Finlayson Arm and a misty haze making it look like a Bob Ross painting.

No one really thinks we should abolish all taxes.

The Global Ocean Commission will be releasing a report and proposals for action this month (24 June), in an effort to reverse the degradation of the oceans.

Sixteen months of negotiations between the B.C. Teachers’ Federation and the employers’ bargaining agency have resulted in this: Wage positions that are an ocean apart. Zero progress on learning conditions.

Tim was not your typical student. Back in the 1970s, all I knew was that Tim had some learning difficulties, as well as a speech defect, and I suspected that processing new information took Tim longer than most other students.

This editorial appeared in the Sunday edition of the Seattle Times. Procedural baloney is blocking construction of a sewage-treatment plant on Vancouver Island — meaning Victoria might keep fouling our shared waters with raw sewage, after all.

Our refrigerator, nearly 17 years old, started to make a loud clunk when the compressor stopped running. It was very loud, like a heavy object falling off the kitchen counter.

With the federal government decision on the Northern Gateway pipeline looming, World Oceans Day, which is today, takes on even greater meaning for British Columbians.

On one hand, you can’t fault the B.C. government for trying, but on the other hand, its enthusiasm for it — consulting British Columbians on public policy and pending legislation, that is — seems a little wanting. Gung-ho it’s not.