Opinion

The contrast between winning and losing was never clearer than on Friday. There was the New Democratic Party (the losers).

‘They don’t need to read my mind,” I informed Nature Boy when he offered me his tinfoil helmet. “They can read everything else.

Living in a foreign country is good for the soul.

Alas, it is late September, and however much I love the month of back-to-school book sales, chunky scarves and brilliant changing leaves, I’m sad that we’re leaving all the warmth and brilliance of summer behind us.

In the great Redford-versus-Redford dispute over the oilsands, who are we supposed to believe — Robert the actor or Alison the politician? The short answer: neither. Both are guilty of hyperbole and distorting the facts.

Junior football, it seems, is being lost in the Victoria area. One obvious drawback for the Westshore Rebels is just that – the team name.

It’s easy to hate the Senate if you never talk to any senators. After all, it’s a red-velvet place full of political hacks and has-beens who do nothing but burn up taxpayers’ money on second homes, useless junkets and expensive political dinners.

It was the presumptuous little stunt pulled by the Coquitlam-Maillardville New Democratic Party group that brought home how difficult it is to lead the B.C. NDP.

Remarks made by Robyne Maxwell of the Vancouver Island Health Authority in Tuesday’s Times Colonist present, I believe, a misleading picture of a nurse’s work environment under the new model of care delivery rolled out Friday at Nanaimo Regional Gene

I remember the first time I heard about this thing called Twitter. It was a little more than five years ago and I was sitting in an auditorium filled mostly with journalists and students.