Opinion

Whether or not you believe senators Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin and Patrick Brazeau deserve to lose their jobs for abusing the public trust, the farce that passed for a hearing in the upper chamber last week is a disgrace to the values we hold dear, an

The way these things usually work, the government collects all the input from a consultation process, mulls the ideas over from every angle and later announces any resulting policy change.

A recent study of the impact of sewage sludge on the local marine environment confirmed what many of us have long suspected — sewage is unquestionably harming the health of our oceans, and subsequently threatening human health as well.

It’s Halloween again and I will be at the front door passing out candies to wide eyed ghouls, goblins and ghosts in this annual ritual of courting the dark and dangerous.

You’d think twice about visiting Matamoros, Mexico.

Premier Christy Clark is a supremely confident and ebullient promoter of the liquefied natural gas opportunity in B.C. So it’s hard to picture her paying a lot of attention to the Canada West Foundation when it comes to that topic.

Federal budget cuts closed the Saanich Observatory to the public last summer; public effort can ensure it is reopened. There may be no better place in Canada to look at the stars than right here in Saanich.

[UPDATED 11:50 a.m. Oct 29, 2013 to include Ken Kramer] Premier Christy Clark's announcement that former MLA Ben Stewart will be B.C.

Larry Licht’s recently published sentiments on invasive American bullfrogs in local habitats aren’t based on research. Bullfrogs are definitely a problem here.

This Mike Duffy affair is being blown all out of proportion as, some might be tempted to observe, the senator himself appears to have been. The snow is yet to fly in Ottawa, yet he looms over Parliament Hill like Michelin Man, twisting in the wind.