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If the government can get a stay, then I want one, too. I’d like to apply for a stay on media coverage of all the self-serving, misleading spin the government and the teachers are throwing up.

Back in late 2011 after the Occupy Wall Street protests, Fiat-Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne gave a speech in Toronto to decry what he called “the most inane displays of greed.

The province recently announced that it is selling former Provincial Capital Commission land along the Trans-Canada Highway in Langford as part of its strategy to balance the budget.

There was some gnashing of teeth when the cold-hearted B.C. Liberals axed the Provincial Capital Commission last November. It showed disdain for the capital. It illustrated the Liberals’ lack of interest in Victoria.

The most revealing moment in Justin Trudeau’s keynote address to the Liberal party on the weekend was when he invoked his father and the Just Society, a byword for Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s commitment to fairness in income and opportunity.

The provincial budget signalled that British Columbia intends to develop its vast shale gas resources and use the revenue to pay off its debts and generate wealth for its citizens.

Experience a guided tour of Canada's oldest synagogue, Congregation Emanu-el, led by the country’s first ordained Maggidah (Jewish storyteller and educator), Shoshana Litman www.maggidah.com , a Spiritually Speaking contributor.

Many posts ago, I observed that while bicycling home at night , I occasionally chanced upon the smell of marijuana drifting out of cars that had stopped next to me at red lights. A few readers said they thought that, from my tone, I disapproved.

Alexa Middelaer is obviously the poster child for B.C.’s impaired-driving regime. The four-year-old was killed in heartbreaking circumstances in 2008.

Admit it or not, our schools live in a have and have-not world, even though operating funding does employ a kind of equalization formula intended to ensure a level playing field between schools in less affluent communities and schools in communities