Opinion

'While it is somewhat comforting to know that the containers meet health and safety standards for workers, the central issue is whether those chemicals stored on that site pose risks to the adjacent residents should an accident occur.'

'How do those five directors justify directing our water supply to an ice rink while residents have so much angst about keeping our only local hospital, our businesses and our farms supplied?'

'This new plan to reduce council meetings to one a month will reduce delegations by half and leave little time for debate. It also will do away with public inquiries, committee reports and councillor reports, all to speed up the agenda. Where does that leave the engaged citizen like myself? There is absolutely no time to hear concerns from the taxpaying citizen!'

Eby’s choices will reveal the future of his government, its priorities and where he intends to take the province over the next two years.

British Columbians continue to show a uniqueness in abandoning both labels and places of worship.

Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association is granting businesses half of their costs to a maximum $5,000 of repairing busted windows, doors, removing or coating graffiti, and installing cameras, shutters or gates.

The Ministry for the Future, a novel by Kim Stanley Robinson, with its mix of real science and not-so-far from reality-fiction, should be on the top of your “to-read” list.  

Do you see me through a white lens? I'm here to ask you not to.

In 2018, at a time when words like “reconciliation” were not being mentioned prominently to discuss the relationship of Canadian governments with Indigenous residents, the City of Victoria removed a statue of Sir John A.