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The U.S. election is over, and now the world’s most powerful nation must heal. Americans, and by extension the rest of the world, have lived through the ugliest campaign in living memory.

If we don’t preserve 50-year-old architecture, our descendants won’t be able to celebrate 100-year-old architecture. But not every 50-year-old structure is worth preserving.

Regardless of who wins the U.S. presidential election on Tuesday, that country’s political foundations have been shaken to the core. One of the ugliest campaigns in American history might finally be ending, but the fallout is likely to continue.

An incident such as the heartbreaking stabbings at Abbotsford Senior Secondary School this week will inevitably raise concerns about security at schools, and so it should.

In the wake of the firings of several Health Ministry researchers four years ago, the B.C. government had no answers, no explanation. The Opposition and those affected by the firings have encountered nothing but roadblocks in their quest for answers.

Last year’s orca baby boom was cause for cautious optimism. This year, the outlook is looking more bleak with the death of a female member of the southern resident killer whale population.

The federal government will bring in 300,000 immigrants in 2017, the same number as this year, but plans to boost those numbers in coming years. That’s welcome news — Canada has been good to immigrants, and immigration has been good for Canada.

Every serious crash on the Malahat, it seems, sparks rage at the provincial government for not making the highway more safe, and at first responders for blocking traffic while the crash scene is investigated.

Sometimes, the wheels of municipal government grind slowly. Planning for a project can be preceded by months, even years, of feasibility studies, public consultations, requests for ideas and thorough analysis of all the information gathered.

A new report on patient safety has revealed flaws in our hospital system that should trouble all of us. Last year, according to the 91Ô­´´ Institute for Health Information, 138,000 people country-wide experienced harm while in hospital.