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Comment: Hesjedal case centres on transparency in cycling

Comment: Hesjedal case centres on transparency in cycling

The culture of doping is nauseating. Young athletes enter pro cycling with dreams, submit themselves to its logic of a “level playing field” and come out of it as liars. That can’t feel good. It has been a trying week for Canadian cycling.
David Bly: There’s magic in a multitude of mushrooms

David Bly: There’s magic in a multitude of mushrooms

A group of shaggy-mane mushrooms popped up at the edge of the driveway. Then a cluster of orange-brown mushrooms with conical tops appeared nearby, followed by a couple of larger white mushrooms with flat tops.
Iain Hunter: Watch the government that watches us

Iain Hunter: Watch the government that watches us

Governments are obsessed these days with amassing information, openly or surreptitiously, on their subjects or those of other countries.
Royals get their point across

Royals get their point across

Chaz Reddekopp, who knew? The 16-year-old Victoria Royals defenceman from West Kelowna caused a stir in front of what was an announced crowd of 4,000 (which was more like less than 3,000) at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre in Saturday night’s 3-1 win o
Faith is a strength in illness

Faith is a strength in illness

“If I could just go to sleep and not wake up…I wouldn’t have to feel this pain anymore,” I said to myself. Some days the pain and the exhaustion are just too much for me. Living with a chronic illness is not easy.
Monique Keiran: As clocks change, sleep is a great healer

Monique Keiran: As clocks change, sleep is a great healer

We can sleep a little longer this weekend. Most of North America sets its clocks back one hour tonight, marking the end of daylight time in 2013.
Les Leyne: B.C. Liberals take the money and run

Les Leyne: B.C. Liberals take the money and run

The “Legislative Precinct” in Victoria has never been as attractive as the name suggests. The only buildings to meet the expectations created by that term are the legislature itself and the Royal B.C.
Comment: Is the M.G. Zalinski cleanup for oil or image?

Comment: Is the M.G. Zalinski cleanup for oil or image?

Last winter, I found myself descending slowly down a black wall. My dive partner, Tavish Campbell, somewhere off to my left, was only recognizable by the narrow beam of his dive light.
Weigh-in Wednesday #39 & #40 - The agony & the ecstasy

Weigh-in Wednesday #39 & #40 - The agony & the ecstasy

Promptly following my knee injury, I had a rest week....which is pretty much exactly like an active rest week, only without the active. Seriously? But, the City of Victoria is opening the adult playground in Central Park...
Shannon Corregan: We can never be too old for Halloween

Shannon Corregan: We can never be too old for Halloween

One of the weird things about writing this column is the several-day gap between when it gets written and when it gets published, but I can make an educated guess that as you’re reading this, I’m on my way to work, furiously scrubbing at the leftover