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The first time I remember feeling the compelling urge to die, I was fifteen. It was night. I was standing alone by the side of a busy highway on the outskirts of Kelowna.

I was downtown last week when I saw the man in front of me (a white, middle-aged man) hail a young woman who was walking down the sidewalk towards us. She was young — younger than me, perhaps 22 — and Asian.

Canada used to be the greatest country in the world. It can be again. But, according to every independent review, we are not any more.

The 500 member firms making up the 91Ô­´´ Island Construction Association have been following the core-area wastewater treatment project developments with considerable interest since the federal government ordered the Capital Regional District to

Cycling to work on garbage day in our Saanich neighbourhood, I noticed a sprinkling of garbage and kitchen scrap bins that hadn’t been emptied.

Bucking the trend of some legislature standing committees, the health one is actually holding meetings and trying to accomplish something. Some of them exist only on paper and do next to nothing.

Nothing so more became Herb Gray than the manner in which he left the House of Commons, where he was the third-longest serving parliamentarian in our history.

So what do a Conservative senator from Ontario, the Toronto Blue Jays, an Ontario public-sector union and a part-owner of the Calgary Flames all have in common? If their chequebook is any indication, they have a keen interest in B.C. politics.

The 2004 federal-provincial health accord recently completed its 10-year run and expired on schedule.

With all the focus on the daily question period jousts, much of the B.C. Liberal legislative package is being processed through the house out of the spotlight. Here’s a rundown of what they’re actually doing, as opposed to what they’re saying.