Opinion

Kids in today’s classrooms with their BlackBerrys, iPods, iPhones, thousands of apps, Google and Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, GPS maps and laptop windows on the world are making a new kind of demand on public education and its teachers.

For years, I was a voice in the wilderness calling for an oil pipeline to bring western oil to eastern Canada. Now that Trans-Canada and Enbridge each have plans to build one, I should be pleased. But I’m not.

There is a glimmer of hope that the Middle East peace process might not be completely dead. Not only has U.S.

A scientist asked a good question as reported in the July 1896 issue of Scientific American: Why would people bring into their homes “a most deadly enemy” in the form of a water closet instead of being content to use an outdoor privy? The enemy has c

The quality of education at the University of Victoria hangs in the balance as hundreds of sessional instructors face mounting layoffs. When a sessional loses his or her job, it means students have lost a course.

When I first met Bob Wright, he jumped out of his business-class seat on an Air Canada jet at Toronto International Airport and kissed me on the cheek. I had paused while boarding the Victoria-bound jet to ask if he was Bob.

As a child of Depression-era children, I experienced the annual toil of backyard gardening early on.

This week, a special council meeting was held. It was expected to be a hard meeting for council members. Actually, it was an inspiring meeting.

Scenes of people helping people run through my mind like a movie montage, flickering man's kindness and God's provision like a reel.

No rest for the wicked All this doesn't just end with the scale...there is also fitness testing, something I have been both looking forward too and dreading.