Opinion

Newly sworn-in Environment Minister Mary Polak was less than impressed Tuesday with Enbridge’s explanation about why it should be allowed to pipe heavy oil across B.C. and ship it off the coast. The B.C.

The western premiers wrapped up their annual conference Monday in Winnipeg. For the third year in a row, the premiers identified a lack of federal clarity on infrastructure investment as an ongoing issue and called for discussions with Ottawa.

At a recent church meeting, a colleague noted that in Europe the Churches are empty, but the pilgrimage sites are filled to overflowing.

While all manner of environmental catastrophes have been contemplated during months of hearings into Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline plan, the company itself raised the possibility of a disaster of a different sort on Monday.

When premiers Christy Clark and Alison Redford held an exuberant joint news conference in Kelowna on Friday, they didn’t just hit the reset button on their relationship, they hit the erase button.

Wednesday, May 29th, 2013 - Finally a loss...only 1.9 pounds, but a loss nonetheless! Not seeing the scale go down as much as I would have liked it to in the previous couple of weeks took it's toll on my psyche.

As two girls growing up in Victoria, neither of us has heard about cluster munitions. Also known as cluster bombs, these are large bombs that scatter dozens or hundreds of smaller sub-munitions across an area the size of two or more football fields.

This is the season of high-school graduation ceremonies, celebrating the launching of unsuspecting youth upon an equally unsuspecting world and everyone professing to feel good about it.

Canada is a prosperous country, and one critical reason for that is our mostly secure approach to property rights.

Last week, my tasks downtown completed, I rested at Pioneer Square, the sun-dappled pocket park at Quadra and Rockland, adjacent to Christ Church Cathedral and opposite the busy YMCA.