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Pay your taxes, then find eternal happiness I went to my mailbox the other day and found my 2026 property tax notice together with a religious tract...
A commentary by a retired Canadian business leader who lives in North Saanich. Germany has long been Europe’s economic engine, and its GDP is still...
Google wants me to know that “fraught” means causing or affected by anxiety or stress. It offers an example: “There was a fraught silence.”...
Re: “Rats should worry about Jack Russell terriers,” letter, Feb. 7. The response to my letter about ratting cats demands a reply. It claims...
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Re: “Downtown needs people, and we need downtown,” commentary, Feb. 6. I’ve lived within shouting distance of downtown for nearly 20 years, and...
Now that Saanich council has informed the public it wants Panama Flats as a bird sanctuary, why not prove it? Once a farm, this property will need a...
A commentary by a Victoria city councillor. The opinions expressed are hers. There is a growing belief that Victoria city council is not listening....
Attention men! I have good news, and I have bad news. The good news is Valentine’s Day is still a week away! This gives an appropriate amount of...
A commentary by the mayor of Sidney. B.C. Transit has an online survey open now. It is seeking public feedback on a proposal to improve transit...
A recent letter suggested the B.C. NDP government should bring back billing charges for the B.C. Medical Services Plan to recover lost revenue from...
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A commentary by the CEO of the Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce. As a lifelong resident of this region, I’ve spent a lot of time in downtown...
A commentary by a Victoria resident. I’ve taken B.C. Ferries for 41 years, and something struck me last week: the silence. Walking among hundreds...
One of the early English kings gave cats the right to roam because they kill mice and rats, which not only eat and contaminate food stocks but also...
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Re: “A dental program that excludes everyone,” letter, Jan. 30. A one-digit mistake by private sector pension plan administrators caused...
A commentary by a Saanich resident. Buried on page 135 of Saanich’s Quadra-McKenzie Plan are clues of what is in store for present and future...
Re: “Tanker trouble,” Feb. 1. I live on the waterfront in the Sooke Basin, was regional director of Juan de Fuca for a decade and wanted to give...
A commentary by a University of Victoria professor who is chair of the Department of Anthropology. There has been much recent focus on the B.C....
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This year, the Capital Regional District marks its Diamond Jubilee. It was created in 1966 as a federation of seven municipalities and five electoral...
A repeated conversational topic of choice this winter in my neighbourhood has been the weather. People have been talking about the recent drenching...
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Re: “Seniors are trapped in legislated poverty,” commentary, Jan. 27. Doreen Marion Gee’s excellent commentary spelled out why so many seniors...
After years of waiting for the promised federal dental program, it is a disappointment with a loophole that can seemingly exclude anyone. When I...
A big thanks to Bruce Hallsor for reminding us about the eloquence of Robbie Burns and all he had to teach about the human condition. It reminded me...
A commentary by the secretary-business manager of the Hospital Employees’ Union. Seniors’ care depends on one thing above all else: The steady...
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A commentary by a Saanich resident. I thought I was smart enough to think that I was lucky to grow up in a period of history where the world had...
From the archive. First published on Jan. 15, 1999.
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Re: “Failure to protect private property will lead to crisis,” commentary, Jan. 24. This commentary overstates both the novelty and the legal...
A commentary by a local writer, journalist and social justice activist. Last week, there was a long line of seniors waiting for food at a well-known...
As readers of this column know, I often refer to a piece of wisdom put forth by the World Wide Fund for Nature in 2014: “Ecosystems sustain...
It’s Tuesday evening, and I have just finished listening to our prime minister deliver an extraordinarily courageous and cautionary speech at the...
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A commentary by the author of Storm the Ballot Box: An Insider’s Guide to a Voting Revolution. She is an award-winning journalist and a former...
So, the United States has officially joined the Axis of Evil! One has to ask why NATO members (including Canada) relied so heavily on them for so...
There have been numerous stories in local media over the past week about trees and other plants blooming “unseasonably early” this winter, with...
I’m trying to remember that condescending phrase that athletic, healthy people say to the rest of us all the time … Not “hello.” Not “please...
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A commentary by a senior fellow at the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy and professor in liberal studies and political studies at Vancouver...
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A commentary by the president of the B.C. Ferry and Marine Workers’ Union. A recent commentary from the president and CEO of B.C. Ferries pushes...
A commentary by a former Victoria city councillor who is a cycling advocate. Hardly a day goes by that we don’t see letters to the editor decrying...
A commentary by a family physician at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital. Today is Weedless Wednesday, the highlight of National Non-Smoking Week....
Re: “Scenes from the 900 block of Pandora,” Jan. 18. What a moving and profoundly sad article by Jody Paterson about the situation on Pandora...
A commentary by a Langford city councillor. Across the West Shore, no one municipality can stand alone in facing the challenges of public safety,...
A commentary by a retired business professor. He lives in Oak Bay. History can be a bit like geology, where tectonic plates awaken from decades of...
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