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Clark’s denials are tough to swallow

This week, Christy Clark is desperately attempting to construct a Chinese wall between her premiership and senior staffers in her West Wing.

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The new lost generation

My stepfather is dying. It happens to all of us at some point in this crazy journey, but the way we leave this mortal coil needs more grace.

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Monday nets five awards

It may not have the glitz of the Oscars, but the annual announcement for the Community Newspaper Awards is always an exciting time.

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Permit needed for fun, laughter, clapping

Politics has always been the art of saying one thing and doing another, and last week was no exception.

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Prediction: Libs will win one Island seat

Catching election fever would be no fun if we were not able to make predictions we may later hope the reader forgets.

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With neighbours like these . . .

Five years after someone first set about sweeping away the all-too-visible signs of poverty in the area around Pandora Green...

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Political ménage à trois for the ages

Here’s a political ménage à trois for the ages. It is called “Kool Topp & Guy Public Affairs” and it redefines opportunism.

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Embrace life more fully

The tragedy of three young lives lost in a horrific house fire on Johnson Street this past weekend should be a wake-up call to all...

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Just for the fun of it, hun

Calling all the amateur poets — fame, fortune and prizes await in Monday’s second annual St. Patrick’s Day Limerick Contest.

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The game of polls is played by many

I have covered politics in B.C. all the way back to 1970 when the godfather of free enterprise, W.A.C. Bennett, was being dogged...

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Commitment needed before committees

Glancing at a recent story on Victoria city council’s looming decision over the fate of its public advisory committees I took a moment...

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Silent support needs to raise its voice

For over a decade, calls for a stable, fixed-site needle exchange have fallen on deaf ears.

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Finance minister’s opus is already damned

Finance Minister Mike de Jong has boldly hired a truth-in-budgeting watchdog to monitor the 2013/14 pre-election budget...

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A monster is awakening

There are some warning signs that can’t be ignored — especially when they cast such an ominous shadow.

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Editorial Cartoon - Feb. 7

Blobfarm by Joseph Williams

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A triumph of myopic delusion

For every Liberal zealot I encounter who is living in denial, I meet another half-dozen free enterprisers who seem to appreciate...

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Spoiled for choice

Just as you’re awakening from a post-Christmas slumber, all sleepy eyed...

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Poverty advocates fear amalgamation

Despite the still-healing wounds from last year’s brawl with the Municipality of Esquimalt, recent weeks have seen...

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Turning the blahs away

It’s about this time of year when one’s New Year resolutions tend to have worn so thin that breakage is a foregone conclusion.

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Myths plague raw log export dilemma

In their ongoing effort to differentiate Premier Christy Clark, the jobs diva, from NDP leader Adrian Dix, the jobs killer...

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