Opinion

Fried alligator po'boy. 'Twas the night before PISE and all through the place...Suzie was anxiously stuffing her face.

This week, the Weather Network’s Flu Report shows significant numbers of influenza cases in the Lower Mainland. Google Flu Trends provides less detail — it rates all of B.C. as having high flu activity.

If you’re still wondering why it took the government so long to get rid of the harmonized sales tax, you can wonder no more.

I have been dragged here today by two emotions — love and fear. I am here because I am convinced that something I love passionately is in considerable danger. And that makes me afraid.

When Bob and Margaret Nelson sent their grandson birthday greetings last year, they didn’t expect millions of people to share those greetings. The Colwood couple wrote 18 Year Old Birthday Blues for their grandson, Josh Robertson, last February.

Last weekend, I drove to Whistler for a bachelorette party. As my friends and I blew up the Sea to Sky highway, we passed a green bilingual Highway sign. “Squamish,” it said; underneath, “Skwxwu7mesh.

The report from the missing-women commission, written by Wally Oppal, while directed to the Lower Mainland, should also act as a catalyst for the creation of a regional police force for Greater Victoria.

The Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings of 20 children and six adults are now perilously close to spinning right off the outer edges of the news centrifuge and into a not-news-anymore endless universe.

Liberal MLA Eric Foster is clear on one point — he had no idea while sitting in judgment on auditor general John Doyle’s fate that Doyle’s team had rapped his office earlier for not submitting receipts for a constituency-office renovation.

The Jan. 6 editorial, “Mentally ill need a better system,” was much needed. It seems to me that this could have been headed: “When mentally ill, we need a better system.” In reality, the problem is ours.