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Les Leyne: Clark, Redford maintain a united front

Les Leyne: Clark, Redford maintain a united front

The sudden bonding between premiers Christy Clark and Alison Redford on Tuesday looks more like a quick effort to avoid a protocol lapse than a long-term agreement. Redford was scheduled weeks ago to make a major speech in Vancouver.
Mark Milke: Equalization a lousy deal for ‘have’ provinces

Mark Milke: Equalization a lousy deal for ‘have’ provinces

In a recent drive from Saint John to St. Andrews, N.B., I marvelled at the four-lane highway and how empty it was on a Friday evening on a long weekend.
Comment: Full funding should be restored to PEERS

Comment: Full funding should be restored to PEERS

It’s strange that PEERS (the Prostitute Education and Empowerment Resource Society) received an award from the Ministry of Justice for exemplary leadership in crime prevention and community safety.
Les Leyne: Wilson’s appointment a bit mystifying

Les Leyne: Wilson’s appointment a bit mystifying

You have to wonder how executives around the Pacific Rim are responding to the new lineup Premier Christy Clark is fielding on liquefied natural gas. Officials in Seoul, Beijing and Tokyo have been working on the B.C. LNG file for a while now.
Geoff Johnson: First Nations education plan falls short

Geoff Johnson: First Nations education plan falls short

The federal government is proposing a sweeping education overhaul on First Nations reserves to bring aboriginal schools up to provincial standards.
Comment: Egypt: A military’s very democratic coup

Comment: Egypt: A military’s very democratic coup

You are the people, the legitimate source of legitimacy; and we are the army, the guardian of this legitimacy. That was the message delivered by Gen.
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