Opinion

It’s highly unlikely, as a Canadian, that I’ll ever be forced to choose between my religious beliefs and my life.

Have local elections in B.C. become a game open only to the rich and well-connected? Certainly that seems to be the case in Greater Vancouver.

Every school of higher education benefits from diversity — diversity of opinion, diversity within its student population and diversity among its teachers.

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How things have changed in seven years of bicycling during the rainy, chilly and sometimes freezing season, often at night. $20 water-resistant pants —> $100 Gore-Tex pants (these days, more like $130).

I’m writing from the comfort of my study. My good friends in the “Euromaidan” in Kyiv aren’t anywhere near as snug. Yet they endure, not only cold but brutality because for them Ukraine always was, is and forever must be, a European nation.

The finding by B.C. Supreme Court Justice Susan Griffin that, as a political ploy, B.C. government insiders attempted to implement a bargaining strategy intended to provoke a general teachers’ strike is breathtaking in its implications.

Isuppose this is what happens when you ask a child to do a man’s work. I speak, of course, of Justin Trudeau’s naïve idea that not calling Liberal senators Liberals — not calling a spade a spade — is a significant step toward Senate reform.

Here’s one way to judge whether the big liquor-policy reform will be an overall benefit to B.C. Picture all the changes in place — relaxed licences, freedom to move around holding a drink, more hard liquor at public events, happy hours.

On a recent trip to Vancouver, a great yellow tongue of dirty air greeted us as the ferry surged into the Strait of Georgia. Stretching out from Vancouver, the tongue licked at the shores of Galiano and Mayne islands.