Opinion

Nine California public school students are back in court again this month suing the state to abolish its laws on teacher tenure, seniority and other protections that the plaintiffs say keep bad educators in the classroom.

Mike Farnworth’s star-crossed career as a cabinet minister in the 1990s gives a glimpse of what kind of leader he might be. He confirmed the obvious this weekend and announced he’s running for the leadership of the New Democratic Party.

In Sunday’s Times Colonist, Transportation Minister Todd Stone and Infrastructure Minister Naomi Yamamoto paint a misleading picture about the announced changes to the northern coast ferry service. The ministers state that the route lost $7.

First class seats on a London-to-Edinburgh train. - - - On a flight to England, a woman sitting near me in a window seat, but not in my row, was very chatty. She was indiscreet in talking about her life.

There is much discussion about the ferry component of the Discovery Coast Circle Tour and we would like to lay out clearly for the people of B.C.

I was made to feel guilty as a boy surreptitiously slipping blancmange to Wags, the school dog, for in those days, Armenians were said to be starving. Today, a lot more people are going to bed hungry, and still I can’t bear to throw food out.

Just who is actually lying? Is it the prime minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan? Or, as he insists, is it his enemies trying to overthrow his democratically elected government? The answer could have profound repercussions not only for Turks but

I have been thinking and reflecting lately on the nature of God. Is he really “the same yesterday, today and forever?” I wonder. When I read the Old Testament I see a God that was incredibly active.

Amid the displays about hardwood floors, kitchen overhauls, solar panels and heat pumps, this year’s Home Show had three booths devoted to earthquakes and disaster survival.

The funny thing about provincial budgets is that sometimes they tell you a lot more about a government’s attitude than the politicians might have intended when they wrote the document.