Opinion

Les Leyne: Committee urges same response to drug crisis as to pandemic

Ten thousand people have died in the six years since the emergency was declared 鈥� illicit drug toxicity is the leading cause of unnatural death in B.C., more than homicides, car crashes, drowning and fires combined

Nov 2, 2022 7:00 AM Read more >

Comment: Victoria's outgoing mayor offers thanks and some advice

Outgoing Victoria mayor Lisa Helps offers her thanks to those who supported and challenged council 鈥� and offers some wishes for the future.

Nov 2, 2022 3:00 AM Read more >

Letters Nov. 2: Missing the Pineapple Express; new mayor should work less, listen more

Letters from our readers: A mayor's role; aiding planetary health through; mirrors, headlights and "peanut" cars.

Nov 2, 2022 12:00 AM Read more >

Letters Nov. 1: Our water supply is a hidden asset; saying no to the Olympics

Letters from our readers: Saying thank you to Victoria's outgoing mayor, wondering why a B.C. Ambulance bill took so long, keeping it slow on St. Charles Street

Nov 1, 2022 12:00 AM Read more >

Les Leyne: Latest move on doctor crisis might make more progress than previous efforts

The phrase 鈥渇undamental change鈥� came up, and it bears out in some of the details.

Oct 31, 2022 11:00 PM Read more >

Letters Oct. 31: Housing the homeless; time for amalgamation?

Letters from our readers: Housing initiatives, regional governance, Dallas Road dogs.

Oct 31, 2022 12:00 AM Read more >

Comment: Find better ways to help parents of neurodivergent children

The government says its new plan will provide utopian care for all neurodivergent children. For a glimpse of what is to come, consider the services that our government already controls: The wait to receive an appointment for a public funded diagnosis for autism is estimated at 36 months.

Oct 30, 2022 10:00 PM Read more >

Trevor Hancock: The human and environmental cost of growth-obsessed 'extractivism'

Humans have extracted resources for millennia, but the scale of extraction today is massive and often unsustainable

Oct 30, 2022 6:00 AM Read more >

Charla Huber: Have we forgotten that community leaders are our neighbours?

Forget the online vitriol and be grateful for the work done by municipal politicians who were not re-elected or chose not to run again. Great communities don鈥檛 just happen; they are the result of hard work

Oct 30, 2022 12:00 AM Read more >

Monique Keiran: Wolf stereotypes are more about humans than wolves

Fairy tales and popular books and movies contain the implied message that wolves are cruel, rapacious, vicious and even diabolical