Opinion

When the Bank of Canada launches its new $5 and $10 bills today, there will be no surprises — we’ve seen the designs and noted who are conspicuous by their absence.

In our culture where food is present in abundance how come so many hunger and thirst? We maybe not admit that we are hungry or thirsty. We may fill ourselves with business or even just routine to keep our hearts and minds filled.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The federal government is proposing a sweeping education overhaul on First Nations reserves to bring aboriginal schools up to provincial standards.

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.

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.

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.