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Les Leyne: Clark shows the energy of a winner

Les Leyne: Clark shows the energy of a winner

The contrast between winning and losing was never clearer than on Friday. There was the New Democratic Party (the losers).
Monique Keiran: ‘They’ always know what you are doing

Monique Keiran: ‘They’ always know what you are doing

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

Offering hospitality contributes to peace

Living in a foreign country is good for the soul.
Shannon Corregan: September song sweeter without gulls

Shannon Corregan: September song sweeter without gulls

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.
Graham Thomson: Both Redfords are playing loose with facts

Graham Thomson: Both Redfords are playing loose with facts

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.
Rebels need your support

Rebels need your support

Junior football, it seems, is being lost in the Victoria area. One obvious drawback for the Westshore Rebels is just that – the team name.
David Bly: Flawed Senate better than no Senate at all

David Bly: Flawed Senate better than no Senate at all

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.
Les Leyne: Dix quits, but NDP’s problems remain

Les Leyne: Dix quits, but NDP’s problems remain

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.
Comment: VIHA changes hurt nurses and patients alike

Comment: VIHA changes hurt nurses and patients alike

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
Twitter: It's just such a stupid name

Twitter: It's just such a stupid name

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.
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