Opinion

The Rickter Scale is a regular column

Buying a home has always been something that I associate with becoming an adult.

Is enough being done to save the iconic species?

Long odds that babies would be delivered so regularly within first minutes of midnight on Jan. 1

In recent years, property owners have pored over assessments much more closely

International Overdose Awareness Day came and went. Recovery Day disappeared into the discard pile of calendar events along with the hopes of political election rhetoric. Many people were trained to administer naloxone, many attended to well-informed guest speakers and many more picked up information brochures on our opioid crisis (crisis: an unstable or crucial state of affairs, especially one with the distinct possibility of a highly undesirable outcome).

I had the most wonderful act of kindness shown me on Christmas Eve. I was going in to Thriftys in Colwood when I was approached by a young man and his daughter. The man handed me what looked like a gift card and said “We just like to do something for someone on Christmas.”

Not only is name calling juvenile, it is unproductive

Linda Geggie is the executive director with CR FAIR

A seasonal message from Oak Bay Mayor Kevin Murdoch