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The Sept. 12 public hearing on the Gateway Shopping Centre proposal is expected to attract a huge crowd, and so it should — this is a project that could have a major impact on Sidney and adjacent areas.

As Canada’s military wages war on sexual misconduct within its ranks, it should find, charge and punish the perpetrators, but it should also hold accountable those in command who tolerate or turn a blind eye to such behaviour. It starts at the top.

The B.C. government says it is just being fair by raising disability benefits by $77 a month, then charging recipients $52 monthly for a bus pass that used to cost $45 a year. The math says otherwise.

Concern about possible effects of genetically modified organisms is a legitimate issue, but is it Victoria city council’s issue? Councillors were elected to guide the municipal administration on the business of the city.

When B.C.’s municipal auditor general was fired last year, the main complaint was failure to deliver. Specifically, Basia Ruta had promised to conduct 18 audits in the year following her appointment.

No single strategy will resolve the region’s housing crisis, but Saanich council is certainly making the right move by formulating a plan that would allow homeowners to build detached secondary suites on their property. Coun.

Enough of this dumping sewage in the ocean, the province said firmly. Come up with a good plan for a regional sewage-treatment plant, choose a site and get it built. That was 10 years ago.

Sam Bawlf was a man who followed his passions. The developer, author, historian, former cabinet minister and alderman died Saturday at the age of 72 on Salt Spring Island, his home for the past 28 years.

It’s frustrating to be trapped on a highway blocked by police processing a collision scene, but don’t take your wrath out on the police officers — it’s the system that’s at fault, and that system needs correcting.

If federal Liberal cabinet ministers don’t have the sense and sensitivity to handle a few thousand dollars in expense money properly, how can they be trusted to handle competently the billions of dollars it takes to run the country? Health Minister J