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Levers, in many instances, are better than doorknobs. They are easier to grasp for those whose grip has been weakened by age or ailment.

Canada Post has calculated how much it will save by ending door-to-door delivery and raising rates, but it apparently hasn’t calculated how much those changes will cost people who depend on mail service.

It would be gratifying to see B.C. Ferries’ new vessels built in British Columbia by a local company. But not at any price.

As Alice Munro was embarking on her literary career, she was dismissed by a university professor as just another housewife writer.

The CREST emergency-radio system has lots of friends, but it still doesn’t get any love from the Victoria police department. CREST is hoping $13 million in upgrades will win over VicPD.

The petition campaign aimed at decriminalizing marijuana in B.C. has fallen short of support needed to get the measure on a ballot, but the effort to reform Canada’s marijuana laws should continue.

Canada’s school-age children learn fewer basic skills each year, and our country’s education ministers don’t know why. The declining skill levels are laid bare in a new report by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Legions of people have struggled for freedom over the ages, but only a handful of them have kept their faith in the goodness of the human spirit — Nelson Mandela was one of these.

When Randy George Scott was acquitted of driving a motorcycle at 299 km/h on Greater Victoria roads, he didn’t get the bike back. It had been seized and sold under B.C.’s civil-forfeiture law before his trial began.

The provincial government, eager to find long-term labour peace, has signed three more five-year tentative agreements with its employees.