Opinion

Many Victoria restaurants were really busy over the weekend at a time of year when business can be slow. The reason was the annual Dine Around promotion, where restaurants offer a starter, a main and a dessert for $20, $30, $40 or $50.

A certain phrase is popping up more and more, in blogs, news articles, conversation. I heard it in TV dialogue the other night. And I spotted it in a Times Colonist story.

According to the World Health Organization, suicide is one of the top 20 leading causes of death worldwide. As bleak as an image that this fact paints, zooming in on home does not get much better.

If you see social workers as only being involved in child protection, you’re not seeing the whole picture. Social workers touch every aspect of society.

In December, when they come out with the annual list of new words that people find the most annoying, “microaggression” is going to be one of them for 2014. I just learned the word Wednesday and within an hour, I already hated it.

Many years ago, three friends and I took the ferry to Vancouver to help a friend move. We were all young women in our third year of university. It was a gorgeous day.

This morning, I was doing what I normally do: making sure the Times Colonist website was up and running with new and interesting content for our readers. The problem was that you guys weren't reading.

If there is one thing we can take away from the latest federal budget, it is that the government continues to prioritize our aging population over adapting to new problems facing younger Canada.

No one ever lost in politics by being underestimated, and that’s very much the case with Justin Trudeau.

Balancing a budget is one thing, for which credit was bestowed in this space on Wednesday. Maintaining the impression that the government is doing everything that needs doing while staying in the black is another.