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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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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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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Politics has always been the art of saying one thing and doing another, and last week was no exception.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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For over a decade, calls for a stable, fixed-site needle exchange have fallen on deaf ears.
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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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There are some warning signs that can’t be ignored — especially when they cast such an ominous shadow.
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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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Despite the still-healing wounds from last year’s brawl with the Municipality of Esquimalt, recent weeks have seen...
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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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In their ongoing effort to differentiate Premier Christy Clark, the jobs diva, from NDP leader Adrian Dix, the jobs killer...
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