Opinion

The mission of post-secondary education is to help students succeed in a rapidly changing world. This year, more than 34,000 students enrolled in Vancouver Island’s five public post-secondary institutions to find their pathways to success.

Despite the fact that we’re the 12th most populous urban area in Canada, Victoria is a relatively small community, both in terms of geography and population. In a community such as ours, when tragedy occurs, it touches most of us.

What must Canada’s government base its foreign policy on? First, let us consider what a foreign policy must not be. Foreign policy is not about loving everyone or even helping everyone.

Contract talks between the government and B.C. teachers are moving along nicely — by our standards. There are phoney reassurances, delusional optimism and some passive-aggressive, self-interested leaking. So we’re right about where we should be if B.

The Supreme Court has given Canada a year to come up with prostitution laws that don’t put sex workers in danger. The justice department is soliciting opinions from Canadians on its website.

Technology is neutral. How we use it depends on us. From the wheel to the plow, right through to vaccines and the silicon chip, its use has always disrupted the pattern of human life.

Information technology usage may be making us dumber by impairing and possibly damaging our brains.

The best way to travel between Vancouver International Airport and downtown Vancouver is to hop on a Canada Line train. It takes 25 minutes to go between the airport and Waterfront, the most-distant downtown station.

Recent proposed changes to fares for parking in downtown Victoria has kicked up an unfortunately predictable chorus of naysayers who claim any changes to parking fares will be the death blow for our struggling downtown core.

When I moved to Victoria three and a half years ago, I was surprised to discover how secular it was.