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Comment: Health care should be independent of politics

Comment: Health care should be independent of politics

Gerald Tevaarwerk As a physician, I am glad to see that the residents of Lake Cowichan are meeting to find answers to their doctor shortage.
Column: It鈥檚 merry Christmas when no one鈥檚 offended

Column: It鈥檚 merry Christmas when no one鈥檚 offended

All I want for Christmas is some peace and quiet on the political correctness front. Congratulations, Canada! You may have grown up.
Column: Cabinet ripe for reset after F-35 fiasco

Column: Cabinet ripe for reset after F-35 fiasco

Was it enough? As they lick their wounds, settle back for the holidays and take stock, Conservatives will be asking themselves whether their F-35 reset did the trick 鈥 whether it has inoculated them, at long last, from procurement disease, which has
Column: The time for fear-mongering about pot is over

Column: The time for fear-mongering about pot is over

Susan Martinuk, in her Dec. 15 column 鈥淟egalized marijuana opens Pandora鈥檚 box,鈥 provided an inaccurate and incomplete set of claims about marijuana and its claimed dangers.
Iain Hunter column: Watching for North Korean missiles

Iain Hunter column: Watching for North Korean missiles

When that North Korean rocket soared into space last week, I got out my old school atlas, a pin and a bit of string. David Wright, you see, a physicist with the Union of Concerned Scientists based in Cambridge, Mass.
Ian Haysom column: A season to remember the forgotten poor

Ian Haysom column: A season to remember the forgotten poor

If Charles Dickens were alive today, he鈥檇 have plenty of material. His literary landscape was largely the poor, the disadvantaged and the ignored.
Comment: More data needed in natural-gas debate

Comment: More data needed in natural-gas debate

Natural gas is not and never has been a 鈥渃lean鈥 fuel. Yet almost daily, industry and government alike assert that it is a vitally important 鈥渢ransition fuel鈥 that must be harnessed in a global effort to lower global greenhouse gas emissions.
Geoff Johnson column: Let鈥檚 not accept brutal acts as cultural norm

Geoff Johnson column: Let鈥檚 not accept brutal acts as cultural norm

When there are no words in any dictionary to describe what happened in Sandy Hook Elementary School in 91原创icut Friday, when things happen that surely not even the cruelest imagination could comprehend, it is certainly time to go back to some kind
Column: Pedestrians need a sidewalk coalition

Column: Pedestrians need a sidewalk coalition

Before I moved to Saanich, I never thought a person could suffer from sidewalk envy. But here I am, living on a somewhat busy street in a neighbourhood that shed its last rural traces decades ago.
Comment: Unions challenge TFW program for B.C. mine

Comment: Unions challenge TFW program for B.C. mine

Over the past several weeks, the thorny issue of inviting temporary foreign workers to fill good-paying jobs in B.C.鈥檚 resource sector has been debated in a federal courtroom.