Opinion

I was once standing in a vacant apartment with a woman who said she couldn't rent there because the Wi-Fi signal in the area was making her feel ill. After she left, I pulled out my iPhone to search for signals. I could find none.

January 22nd, 2013, Crystal Pool & Fitness Centre, my very first training session with the ninja.

I’m alive. And probably shouldn’t be. The plan was a weekend of biking at Revelstoke. No rush to arrive, so I opted for the scenic Fraser Canyon over the speedier Coquihalla route. The plan aborted just south of Hell’s Gate.

Pope John Paul II is recorded as saying that a society will be judged by how it treats its weakest members. But governments are interested more in election days than judgment days, and our freshly re-elected provincial government isn’t shamed easily.

For the thousands of Albertans hit by floods in southern Alberta, the hard work continues. For the provincial government, the hard work, politically speaking, is just beginning.

It seems health associations are once again calling for a “fat tax:” taxes on foods that some nutritionists and researchers don’t want us to eat or drink.

On the second day our government sat in the B.C. legislature, Speaker Linda Reid admonished then-unelected premier Christy Clark for passing notes to a cabinet minister during a debate.

In recent weeks, there has been extensive news coverage of disastrous flooding, first in central Europe, then southern Alberta and Toronto. In all these cases, flooding was caused by extreme rainfall.

It was the dominant issue in the legislature for the entire week, for two different reasons. The Opposition devoted the entire half-hour question period to the quick-wins ethnic-outreach scandal from Monday through Wednesday.

How much do you know about Canada’s population? British Columbia’s? Does it matter? A recent survey by the Royal Statistical Society and King’s College London suggests that the British population is “wrong about nearly everything,” according to the h