Opinion

(This was written on March 22, the day after Taliban gunmen killed nine people in a Kabul hotel.) Ten years on since I first came to Afghanistan, and I have been back two weeks. There was an attack at the Serena Hotel last night.

After reading commentaries from journalists concerning the Quebec election and the potential this has for another referendum, I want to clear up a misconception. They write as if ROC (Rest of Canada) exists. It doesn’t. Let me state my bias.

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” These words, from the poet Mary Oliver end her beautiful and thought provoking poem ‘ The Summer Day’ with a striking question.

The TC10K is quite simply an epic race. For hundreds of people every year, it’s their first race ever.

Most of us learn about correct behaviour by being taught, both explicitly and implicitly. Explicitly, we’re taught to say please and thank you and to hold the door open for people behind us.

Tomorrow night, at 8:30 p.m., many people, businesses and institutions here on the eco-friendly south coast will be turning out the lights.

The idea put forward by Gwyn Morgan (“P3s bridge infrastructure funding gap,” March 26) that P3s are filling a funding gap doesn’t add up. Private-sector providers of services and infrastructure are not in the charity business.

You can understand why some are suspicious of the B.C. Liberals’ changes to the Agricultural Land Reserve, given the cockeyed way they made them.

Given that you’re reading this page, you probably already know all about Adrian Raeside. He has had a lock on a chunk of real estate near the top of the page since we started buying his cartoons three and a half decades ago. Odds are, you’re a fan.

Because of a belief that food should go into one’s mouth with a minimum of noise and backsplash, I tried to instil in my children some basic table manners. “What if you had the opportunity to dine with the Queen?” I told them.