Opinion

For families with young children, the costs of basic necessities like food, rent and child care quickly add up. Even with full-time work year-round, both parents in a family of four must earn at least $18.

The history of the human race has been marked periodically by acts of horrible magnitude that have only caused hurt and suffering. More often than not, these events are reciprocated actions in response to an apparent wrong action.

Dayna Mazzuca Like a good citizen, I plan to vote. Just don’t ask me for whom. New to B.C.

When Via Rail learned that terrorists were planning to detonate a bomb along the tracks running between Toronto and New York, it reacted as nervous organizations do in the face of such a threat: It announced a review of security.

For those who file their taxes at the last moment and cut an extra cheque to government, right about now is unlikely to be their favourite time of year.

Many Times Colonist readers have read about the problems arising from the resignations of four physicians at Health Point Care Centre.

Principles are problematic things. We hold them dear — until something runs smack into them and threatens to stomp them into the ground. Then we’re forced to make the crucial decision: Hang on to them, or let them go. It can be a tough call.

Having survived the Y2K “every computer on the planet will implode” prophecy and the more recent 2012 “this will be it” doomsday divination, I’m not much for predictions of imminent catastrophe.

What a useful word is “alleged.” These days, when uprisings threaten to cross national borders, when nations seem poised on the brink of new wars, when unknown knowns are the closest we can come to certainty, allegations will do just fine.

Of all the points raised about B.C. Ferries recently — ever-higher fares, the lowest ridership in 22 years, mounting fuel costs, political promises to either help eliminate the ferries’ debt (B.C.