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If you鈥檙e still wondering why it took the government so long to get rid of the harmonized sales tax, you can wonder no more.

I have been dragged here today by two emotions 鈥� love and fear. I am here because I am convinced that something I love passionately is in considerable danger. And that makes me afraid.

When Bob and Margaret Nelson sent their grandson birthday greetings last year, they didn鈥檛 expect millions of people to share those greetings. The Colwood couple wrote 18 Year Old Birthday Blues for their grandson, Josh Robertson, last February.

Last weekend, I drove to Whistler for a bachelorette party. As my friends and I blew up the Sea to Sky highway, we passed a green bilingual Highway sign. 鈥淪quamish,鈥� it said; underneath, 鈥淪kwxwu7mesh.

The report from the missing-women commission, written by Wally Oppal, while directed to the Lower Mainland, should also act as a catalyst for the creation of a regional police force for Greater Victoria.

The Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings of 20 children and six adults are now perilously close to spinning right off the outer edges of the news centrifuge and into a not-news-anymore endless universe.

Liberal MLA Eric Foster is clear on one point 鈥� he had no idea while sitting in judgment on auditor general John Doyle鈥檚 fate that Doyle鈥檚 team had rapped his office earlier for not submitting receipts for a constituency-office renovation.

The Jan. 6 editorial, 鈥淢entally ill need a better system,鈥� was much needed. It seems to me that this could have been headed: 鈥淲hen mentally ill, we need a better system.鈥� In reality, the problem is ours.

ME! Yes !!! I got cho sen to participate in t he Times 91原创 Health Challenge ! So now what? I guess I'll find out on Sunday at the 91原创 Institute for Sport Excellence at t heir open house . I am both excited...and frankly ...terrified! Haha...

In the current issue of Foreign Affairs, the journal of the American foreign policy establishment, Fareed Zakaria asks: 鈥淐an America Be Fixed?鈥� Zakaria, the prominent author and broadcaster, addresses what he calls 鈥渢he new crisis of democracy鈥� facin