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While political assassinations have often changed history, none had such far-reaching effects as the murder of Austria’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand, 100 years ago today.

The move to four-year local-government terms in B.C. is generally regarded as positive, but the decision by Sooke’s mayor not to seek re-election illustrates one of the drawbacks of the change for smaller municipalities. The B.C.

When something goes wrong with a child-welfare case, the system comes under criticism. That stings those who are on the front lines: social workers.

It might be an excess of caution to include e-cigarettes in the Capital Regional District’s clean air bylaw, but in this case, too much caution would be better than too little.

It’s a little ironic that you can count on government protection from second-hand smoke in a restaurant, but not in your own home. The Heart and Stroke Foundation in B.C. and the B.C.

Psychiatric care and other treatment for mental illness are expensive, but failing to provide that treatment is proving to be even more costly, and police departments are picking up an unfair share of the burden.

If there is a more futile approach to collective bargaining than our K-12 school system endures, none comes readily to mind.

Former B.C. solicitor general Kash Heed says the Victoria Police Department’s withdrawal from regional services is a political statement; Mayor Dean Fortin says it isn’t.

The most important artifacts in the Royal B.C. Museum’s newest exhibit — Our Living Languages: First People’s Voices in B.C. — are not objects in glass cases, but spoken words. Preserving those words is as much about the future as it is the past.

Amrik Virk’s participation in a salary-fudging scheme at Kwantlen Polytechnic University was a serious breach of ethics. It cannot be dismissed as an unintentional error or lapse of judgment.