Opinion

Josh Reaume is a breath of fresh air. The 23-year-old Highlands resident, who is attempting to make it on the NASCAR Nationwide circuit via a six-race trial with Rick Ware Racing, answered a late text on Friday night.

The high default rate on student loans to people in private training colleges was cited as one of the reasons the government is shutting down the self-regulating agency that oversees the industry and taking over that function itself.

The B.C. government sometimes seems to suffer from attention deficit disorder. Take the case of B.C.’s nurse practitioners. The province began regulating these health-care professionals in 2005.

In the middle of the Easter long weekend, the federal government published a notice in the Canada Gazette that it intends to down-list the status of North Pacific humpback whales.

The first time I remember feeling the compelling urge to die, I was fifteen. It was night. I was standing alone by the side of a busy highway on the outskirts of Kelowna.

I was downtown last week when I saw the man in front of me (a white, middle-aged man) hail a young woman who was walking down the sidewalk towards us. She was young — younger than me, perhaps 22 — and Asian.

Canada used to be the greatest country in the world. It can be again. But, according to every independent review, we are not any more.

The 500 member firms making up the Vancouver Island Construction Association have been following the core-area wastewater treatment project developments with considerable interest since the federal government ordered the Capital Regional District to

Cycling to work on garbage day in our Saanich neighbourhood, I noticed a sprinkling of garbage and kitchen scrap bins that hadn’t been emptied.

Bucking the trend of some legislature standing committees, the health one is actually holding meetings and trying to accomplish something. Some of them exist only on paper and do next to nothing.