Opinion

The McPherson Playhouse celebrates its centennial in 2014 and has been a consistently busy venue since the city received the theatre as part of a significant bequest from Thomas Shanks McPherson in 1965.

Most of life is lived in the space in-between. We live in-between what was and what is becoming. We move between the reality of life as it is and the promise for which we hope, between the wound and the healing, the dark night and the dawn’s light.

Picture B.C.’s dam-safety office, responsible for inspecting dams and reporting on their condition.

There’s no denying that ethical behaviour, or the lack of it, has been front and centre in the news of late. That’s the same news our kids read, watch and talk about with each other every day.

Would the Agricultural Land Reserve exist today if the New Democratic Party hadn’t won the 1972 election? While food security was part of every campaign’s platform, it’s unlikely it would have been the ALR.

With all the talk about how Victoria is in for a cold winter — temperatures this week are forecast to hover around zero during the day, then dip as low as -7 at night — every cyclist I know has had only one question on their lips: Will you ride?

‘Little we see in Nature that is ours,” said Wordsworth in that back-to-front way that poets write. In a way, though, he was wrong. Human beings know with biblical precision that nature and everything in her is theirs for the taking or the taming.

Don’t you hate it when parents take their rowdy children out in public, letting them run around, doing rude things, making noise? Perhaps you’d really like to grab one of those parents and say: “Why don’t you teach your kid how to behave?” Maybe you’

Not that you couldn’t before, but you can definitely call it a dynasty now.

The Greater Victoria School District is contemplating a “coastal kindergarten.