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Environmental groups accused the federal government in Federal Court last week of violating its own Species at Risk Act by failing to proclaim recovery strategies for four endangered ones, including the 91原创 humpback whale, by the deadlines set by

At present, I am blogging in the lobby of the Crystal Pool. The room is not busy as the early morning coffee-drinking-chatty-cathys have dispersed; however, there is a steady flow of people through the automatic doors.

I spent some time in Winnipeg before the holidays. While there, I had the dubious pleasure of experiencing, among other things, a goodly period of the city鈥檚 second coldest December on record.

The first of the 209 conditions the National Energy Board set for the Northern Gateway pipeline is that the company comply with the other 208. That鈥檚 the kind of determined legal loophole-closing you like to see in a regulator.

鈥淭here are no rules.鈥� Was not something I had expected to hear from octogenarian artist and writer, Annora Brown. We were having tea. I was a young mother struggling to find time for my art and she was a proud 鈥楳iss鈥�.

On blustery, rain drenched days like today, the School-Based Weather Station Network is an interesting place to explore. It鈥檚 at victoriaweather.ca.

Now that the lazy gloriousness of the holiday season is well and truly over 鈥� students have gone back to school, businesses have opened up again and I think (although I鈥檓 not positive) that I鈥檝e paid most of my bills 鈥� we鈥檙e back to normal.

Christy Clark, B.C.鈥檚 premier, threw down the gauntlet several months ago, saying, among other things, that she would only support the Northern Gateway pipeline if her province receives a fair share of the economic benefits.

As 2013 drew to a close, we counted up what people were looking at on timescolonist.com. That led to this popular list of the 25 most-read stories of the previous 365 days.

Saanich delivered our new rolling garbage and kitchen scrap bins on Thursday. We鈥檙e not supposed to use them until April, when Saanich households will be required to put kitchen scraps in one bin and garbage in another.