Opinion

The clock is ticking on the warm working relationship between Premier John Horgan and B.C. Green Party Leader Andrew Weaver.

It took a half-hour of badgering in the legislature on Tuesday, but Premier John Horgan finally explained the context to a rude remark he made a few years ago about a construction union.

Everyone has insecurities. Almost everyone has felt self-conscious at some point, tried to change something about themselves for the sake of others, or hidden their interests out of fear they would be judged.

Many political parties are engaged in navel-gazing assessments of their futures these days, but none more than the federal and provincial Green parties.

It is easy to overstate junctures in a government’s history as important, but there is no doubt that John Horgan’s B.C. NDP administration finds itself neck deep in mid-term competence tests.

Years ago, in that more trusting era when men wore hats and the planet was our smoking section, 20,679 physicians agreed that Lucky Strike cigarettes were less irritating to the throat. After all, they were toasted.

Don Cherry talked for a living for 39 years. With his inappropriate comments on Saturday, November 9, the 85-year-old hockey commentator managed to talk himself out of a job. Sportsnet was right to remove Cherry from his position.

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I fully agree with Mr. Francescutti’s statements regarding the old incinerator site, and that it should be kept as parkland [“ Resident opposes location of new Powell River resource-recovery centre ,” October 18].

Remember in the first Austin Powers movie where the arch-fiend Dr. Evil quite rightly vented frustration to his henchpeople over how the specifications for his torture chamber were not fulfilled? “I have one simple request.