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Editorial: No special deal for tax dodgers

Get caught trying to avoid income taxes, and the Canada Revenue Agency will ding you with penalties, as well as the taxes you owe, dragging you through the courts, if necessary.

Editorial: Tuition or fees? It鈥檚 all the same

An unseemly money-raising scheme has shown its face at universities and colleges across B.C. If administrators are hampered by the current two per cent cap on tuition, they are now free to invent a whole raft of new charges.

Editorial: Health tests will ease burden

Victoria residents who are concerned they might have a sexually transmitted disease now have a novel option for getting tested. Instead of visiting a physician鈥檚 office, they can order the test online. Island Health is partnering with the B.C.

Editorial: Don鈥檛 gamble with child鈥檚 life

The 鈥渂est interest鈥 of a toddler is tearing apart a family and exposing the competing values that drive decisions in the Ministry of Children and Family Development.

Editorial: Province should take over sewage

The sewage-treatment project for Greater Victoria has clearly gone off the rails. It is time for the province to step in.

Editorial: Terrorist sting鈥檚 cost frightening

The case of the would-be terrorists who thought they were placing pressure-cooker bombs at the B.C.

Editorial: Assisted dying a massive shift

Assisted suicide is not a theoretical issue.

Editorial: Tent city needs an exit strategy

No one should have been surprised when the campers did not leave the courthouse lawn last week in response to an eviction notice from the provincial government. It shows the futility of trying to apply simplistic solutions to complex problems.

Editorial: Injection sites could save lives

The suspected drug deaths of eight people in Greater Victoria last December brought to our doorstep an alarming new trend. It鈥檚 believed at least one of these fatalities was caused by street cocktails that included the painkiller fentanyl.

Editorial: Photo radar a valuable tool

Toronto Mayor John Tory is asking Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne to amend provincial laws so Toronto will be allowed to use photo radar. Ontario opposition parties say they are open to the idea, and several municipalities support Tory鈥檚 request.