Opinion

Blackberry picking, like developing BlackBerry devices, is a prickly business.

On Saturday, many Jewish people around the world will fast for Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. This is an excellent way to increase awareness of those who fast not by choice, but by necessity.

I recently purchased my entry visa to our current decade by investing in a smartphone, and I’m having mixed feelings about it. Not the phone, necessarily, but what the phone means. Before I was a proud owner, I was a bit of a smartphone neophyte.

In August, the Chinese Ministry of Education released 10 Regulations to Lessen Academic Burden for Primary School Students Grades 1-3.

One of the best-kept secrets in Canada’s long tradition of scientific research is the Ontario-based Experimental Lakes Area.

Patriotism, English essayist Samuel Johnson wrote, is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Johnson clearly never met a Canadian interest group. Patriotism is always their first refuge.

You have to wonder where the Green party’s interpretation of a major federal research project on the north coast leaves the B.C. Liberals.

Contrary to what you might have heard, there is no “bee-pocalypse.” There is lots of alarmist talk about colony-collapse disorder. People are blaming pesticides and talking about hundreds of billions of dollars at risk.

It may be that the charter of Quebec values never becomes law. It may be that this is a trial balloon, a little late-summer silliness, a taunt, tease or test, with no purpose but provocation.

I was so busy spending money in the commercial tents at the Saanich Fair that it took a while to notice something significant. I’m a sucker for all the marmalades, preserves, chutneys and spice mixes on offer.