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The Johnson Street Bridge replacement has become the most expensive and controversial building project in Victoria鈥檚 history.

Canada鈥檚 answer to the practice of shark-finning should be summed up in one short word: No.

British Columbians participating in Earth Hour on the weekend saved 136 megawatts of electricity. A token effort could be turned into meaningful change if Earth Hour came once a day, instead of just once a year.

One of the urgent questions to be faced after the provincial election in May is how to rebuild B.C.鈥檚 drug-assessment program. For the existing version is well and truly broken.

If Esquimalt Mayor Barb Desjardins is feeling dumped on, it鈥檚 quite understandable. She and many others in Esquimalt were not happy that their municipality was chosen for the new regional sewage-treatment plant.

The Mustard Seed food bank and drop-in centre is always helping those in need, and now the Mustard Seed is getting a much-needed helping hand from hundreds of volunteers. These volunteers won鈥檛 be passing out food.

B.C.鈥檚 largest oil-spill cleanup vessel hit a sandbar on Sunday on its way from Esquimalt to the 91原创 news conference announcing the federal government鈥檚 鈥渨orld-class tanker safety system.鈥� Accidents happen, but the irony is too rich to ignore.

Not everyone would agree with Royal B.C. Museum CEO Jack Lohman鈥檚 assessment of the museum鈥檚 lobby as a dysfunctional space that looks like the entrance to a shopping mall, but his energetic vision is on track to making a good thing better.

Access is restricted to land around the Sooke Reservoir, the source of potable water for much of the Capital Regional District 鈥� we don鈥檛 want people stomping around there and threatening the purity of our water supply.

All drivers know what to do when they see flashing lights in the rear-view mirror, but it seems that many don鈥檛 know what to do when they see flashing lights ahead of them.