Opinion

This may not be the most startling news you stumble across in this morning’s paper, but if you flip the page on your wall calendar today you will discover that tomorrow is December 1.

Tax is a bad word in politics. It is considered a sure-fire way to turn the public off a policy and to tank approval ratings. However, B.C. seems to be an exception to the rule. Dirty word though it might be, B.C.

The conservative mindset understands that power tends to corrupt. How far will we let it corrupt us? I have been involved in party work for more than a decade and I call on other party members to demand answers or resignation from our leader.

There was a bit of an argument last week between the RCMP and people in Campbell River. In early November, an 11-year-old girl in Kyuquot Sound was attacked and seriously bitten by some stray dogs.

He stands six feet tall, but weighs in at just 156 pounds, soaking wet. A gangly football player in every sense of the word.

How can the City of Victoria improve and design its transportation network to encourage people of all ages and abilities to cycle more often? That’s the question Victoria must address in its Bicycle Master Plan Update, launched last week by city coun

The four byelections on Monday turned out to be a wash between the Conservatives and the Liberals, with the NDP having to settle for moral victories.

A journey outside of one’s own borders can be a reminder of why certain places function better than others.

This is another physician’s view on assisted suicide in response to the Nov. 23 commentary by Dr. Adrian Fine. As a retired kidney specialist, Fine, in all likelihood, witnessed people dying primarily in kidney failure after discontinuing dialysis.

The long-awaited nuclear agreement with Iran was only hours old, but that did not prevent John Baird from summoning the media to convey a reflexive and reliable hostility.