Opinion

Many of us tend to resist the change that might bring us a better life and happiness. Staying in the comfort zone might bring you the temporary relief you need in exchange for your confidence and the opportunity for growth and success.

What do you think about this week's editorial cartoon? How long do you think Canada's new minority government will last?

Now the juggling begins as prime minister Justin Trudeau has named his new cabinet at a ceremony November 20 at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.

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.