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Picture B.C.鈥檚 dam-safety office, responsible for inspecting dams and reporting on their condition.

There鈥檚 no denying that ethical behaviour, or the lack of it, has been front and centre in the news of late. That鈥檚 the same news our kids read, watch and talk about with each other every day.

Would the Agricultural Land Reserve exist today if the New Democratic Party hadn鈥檛 won the 1972 election? While food security was part of every campaign鈥檚 platform, it鈥檚 unlikely it would have been the ALR.

鈥楲ittle we see in Nature that is ours,鈥� said Wordsworth in that back-to-front way that poets write. In a way, though, he was wrong. Human beings know with biblical precision that nature and everything in her is theirs for the taking or the taming.

Don鈥檛 you hate it when parents take their rowdy children out in public, letting them run around, doing rude things, making noise? Perhaps you鈥檇 really like to grab one of those parents and say: 鈥淲hy don鈥檛 you teach your kid how to behave?鈥� Maybe you鈥�

Not that you couldn鈥檛 before, but you can definitely call it a dynasty now.

The Greater Victoria School District is contemplating a 鈥渃oastal kindergarten.

Early next year, the 91原创 Island Health Authority will implement a new staffing model that includes more care aides on patient units at Royal Jubilee and Victoria General hospitals.

There鈥檚 a strong impression the government has something dramatic in mind for some of the major ferry routes. It鈥檚 just not clear what it is yet.