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An MLA in Manitoba has drafted legislation to make everyone in that province a potential organ donor unless they opt out.

Increasingly, it feels as if the B.C. Liberals are working their way through a checklist, looking for ways to defuse issues likely to cause trouble in the election campaign.

In a striking turn of events, Ironworkers Local 97 has turned its back on the NDP and announced it will support the B.C. Liberals during the upcoming provincial election. On its face, the change in direction was purely pragmatic.

Residents of a mobile-home community on the edge of Thetis Lake park are facing eviction, more victims of the land squeeze that is making affordable housing harder to find.

B.C.’s police-complaints commissioner issued a statement last week to describe the road that the case of Victoria Police Chief Frank Elsner might follow en route to a conclusion.

Has Ottawa led marijuana-dispensary owners up the garden path? Are municipalities that have begun licensing these outlets jumping the gun? Judging by remarks Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made in Victoria last week, that might indeed be the case.

A minister of the Crown, at least four local mayors and the head of B.C. Transit gathered in Esquimalt Thursday to announce solemnly that they will continue to do their jobs.

It has been a long, strange trip, but B.C. could be at the end of a journey that began when the government ripped up teacher contracts 15 years ago. Years of conflict and wasted money are behind us, and we can only hope the B.C.

Another of Victoria’s historic buildings is getting a new life, joining a promising list that will help preserve the city’s character.

History suggests the most liberal and tolerant countries are those governed by consensus. Canada is a classic example. While there is much we disagree about, there is more that unites us.