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Can it be? Are we already here? Have I been postponing this last TC Health Challenge unofficial Wednesday Weigh-in blog post because I don't want this magical time to end? Maybe... Definitely. Like leaving the swimming pool when I was 7...

UPDATE 11:25 a.m. : Dix accepted Van Ryswyk's resignation 90 minutes after the story about her previous comments broke. He called the comments "unacceptable" and said a new candidate will be announced shortly.

In a tiny way I came closer than I ever want to come yesterday to feeling personally the impact of terrorism.

Here we are the end of my 12 week TC Happy/Health Challenge. I can tell you this – when I started this journey 12 weeks ago I completely underestimated where it was going to take me.

Welcome to "For Immediate Release", the Times 91Ô­´´'s election blog. We'll be tracking the campaigns starting tomorrow and filing updates, observations, anecdotes and inside scoops right up until election day.

Six weeks ago I had a profound religions experience at the corner of Blanshard and Fisgard. I was in the Save-on-Foods Centre. I do not know if one is allowed to have a religious experience in the Save-on-Foods Centre, but that is where it happened.

If the University of Victoria is going to be fiscally sustainable, its board of governors needs to have the courage to take a Viking-size battleaxe to its payroll, not a measly toenail clipper.

I am a walking contradiction. In my last post, I just told all the men who take their shirts off on cardio equipment to put them back on...however, I feel different about men in the weight room. Gentlemen, flex on.

Premier Christy Clark launches her re-election campaign today on television and it behooves B.C. voters to tune her in — at least, the few who’ll bother to cast their ballots on May 14.

For some, it is the way Paul Henderson’s winning goal in 1972 became a national touchstone. For others, it is a fondness for Tim Hortons coffee or a national tendency to apologize when someone bumps into us. Are these defining 91Ô­´´ traits? Maybe.