Opinion

Those of us who enjoy occasional vacations on the beaches of Mexico watched the education news from Mexico City last week in awe.

Kensington Palace announced last week that Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, is leaving the military to focus on his royal duties and charity work.

The fact that students celebrating Frosh Week participated in similar rape chants at universities on both coasts suggests the phenomenon is not uncommon.

At the risk of sounding callous, I’d like to ask why so much is being made over the use of chemical weapons in Syria where so much else has made that country a hellhole.

This year’s Scotiabank AIDS Walk for Life is on Sept. 22. It is 32 years into the uncovering of the epidemic, and things have changed considerably and not changed at all. I was diagnosed with HIV in 1995.

Christy Clark’s aversion to doing business in the capital is more pronounced than it has been in the last half-dozen premiers.

The migration of two-legged critters to and from school-supply bargain-hunting grounds south of the border has ended for the year. The last young of the summer have fledged and moved out of the nest into college dorms, here and elsewhere.

The Mann Cup was a gruelling six-game series over eight days with some wonderfully compelling stories over the stretch. Some were told and others had yet been reached.

On Tuesday September 11, Bernard Drainville, Minister responsible for Democratic Institutions and Active Citizenship in Quebec, introduced in the National Assembly a Charter of Quebec Values.

In December 2011, Stephen Harper’s Conservative government brought into force a serious law with a ridiculous name: The Protecting Canadians by Ending Sentence Discounts for Multiple Murders Act.