Opinion

The federal election is still more than 10 months away, but there are growing indications it is going to be a bitter campaign based on the ugliness currently out there. The disturbing rancor on social media will bleed into the campaign.

The government of British Columbia ought to be applauded for implementing a provincewide mental-health and substance-use counselling and referral phone service for children, youth, young adults and post-secondary students.

That coughing and sputtering you hear at work and at home is flu season in full swing. It’s hitting kids and middle-aged adults hard this year. So wash your hands, get the flu shot and do your best not to spread the bug around.

I find myself on the edge of 50 years old, but in some ways it feels like just last week I was 29. I’ve been looking all over for those two missing decades and I’m starting to suspect they’re never to be found.

Watching Canada lose in a best-on-best hockey tournament at any level is a tough pill to swallow. Defeat is magnified even more when it happens on home ice, such as Team Canada’s recent quarterfinal loss at the World Junior Hockey Championships.

What do you think of this week's editorial cartoon on the upcoming byelection in Powell River ?

The case against two would-be terrorists who planned to bomb the B.C. legislature on Canada Day has been dismissed.

There are several seasons on the gardener’s calendar and one of the longest is the “dreaming” season. We are currently in the middle of it. If you are a gardener, now is the time to dream of the gorgeous and productive garden that can be.

Conservancy Hornby Island is asking the federal government to shut down the Pacific herring-roe fishery planned for March.

By what right did the state deploy armed force against Indigenous Peoples and their allies at Wedzin Kwah? The Wet’suwet’en peoples, their five clans, and numerous family are not merely demonstrators protesting oil and gas development — they are prot