Opinion

When that North Korean rocket soared into space last week, I got out my old school atlas, a pin and a bit of string. David Wright, you see, a physicist with the Union of Concerned Scientists based in Cambridge, Mass.

If Charles Dickens were alive today, he’d have plenty of material. His literary landscape was largely the poor, the disadvantaged and the ignored.

Natural gas is not and never has been a “clean” fuel. Yet almost daily, industry and government alike assert that it is a vitally important “transition fuel” that must be harnessed in a global effort to lower global greenhouse gas emissions.

When there are no words in any dictionary to describe what happened in Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut Friday, when things happen that surely not even the cruelest imagination could comprehend, it is certainly time to go back to some kind

Before I moved to Saanich, I never thought a person could suffer from sidewalk envy. But here I am, living on a somewhat busy street in a neighbourhood that shed its last rural traces decades ago.

Over the past several weeks, the thorny issue of inviting temporary foreign workers to fill good-paying jobs in B.C.’s resource sector has been debated in a federal courtroom.

Slag heaps and tailings ponds, massive trucks full of coal thundering down our highways, heavy infrastructure, and serious risks to the environment, human health and safety. This is a turn-of-the-century industrial scenario, right? Wrong.

Enthusiasts in Washington state didn’t waste any time celebrating (or pushing the boundaries of) their new freedom to light up a joint.

Now that Mayor Dean Fortin and Victoria Coun. Shellie Gudgeon have successfully introduced a review of canvassing bylaws, the conversation around professional canvassers is heating up.

Mark Willson The Vancouver Island Health Authority’s announcement of the return of fixed-site needle-exchange services (“service hubs”) to Victoria, after five years of false starts and delays, raises some important questions.