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We can鈥檛 go back in time and erase all the injustices that occurred as white settlement pushed aboriginal peoples from their ancestral lands, but some things can be set right.

It鈥檚 a remarkable fact that although lung cancer is directly linked to smoking, the disease was almost unheard of 100 years ago. Tobacco has been in circulation since the 1600s, yet as late as 1912, fewer than 400 cases had been reported worldwide.

Jamie Graham is leaving Victoria鈥檚 police department at the end of this year, after five eventful and often controversial years as chief. He has served the department and the citizens of Victoria well.

Backbenchers in a majority government are generally considered obedient nobodies, but leaders in Victoria and Ottawa have learned those nonentities yearn to be free.

When a government-related issue becomes controversial 鈥� the proposed new sewage plant, the ethnic-outreach scandal and the contaminated-soil problem spring to mind 鈥� a frequent response is to blame the bureaucrats, so much so that 鈥渂ureaucrat鈥� has be

It鈥檚 clear to anyone viewing the video posted on YouTube in 2010 that Victoria police officers used excessive force in making an arrest during a brawl outside a bar.

It鈥檚 no secret that our reliance on antibiotics to fix just about any ailment is turning against us, and doctors warn that the animals we eat could be part of the problem. In B.C.

To hear Premier Christy Clark tell it, her party has done yeoman duty reducing the impact of red tape. It鈥檚 a claim the B.C. Liberals have made repeatedly, and with at least some evidence in their favour.

It鈥檚 rare that a political party can appeal to both Islanders and residents of the Lower Mainland with a single policy proposal, but the B.C. Conservatives have tried it.

The primary focus of hospice care isn鈥檛 about dollars and cents, but it鈥檚 a program that can reduce health-care costs while improving the quality of life 鈥� and death 鈥� for patients and their families.