Opinion

The new school year is under way in a manner never experienced before. The usual student preparation of buying new outfits, new writing materials, even a new lunchbox was different because so few would appreciate the newness with so much else on their minds. Other school personnel had their own preparations to make.

The biggest job losses, in absolute terms, have been in Metro Vancouver

‘Humanities play an essential role in aspects of global competence which have not been the focus of the STEM’

The mayor of Victoria joined the national board of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation as a director this spring, one more addition to a growing list of responsibilities.

Drug could change people’s lives, reader says

The letter “A World Gone Mad” which I wrote and which was published recently contained an error which was pointed out to me by a reader.

The disingenuous, self-serving Horgan NDP has again demonstrated unequivocally that they are not interested in democracy or sharing power.

Thank you to Gord Gummer and Todd Preston for speaking up regarding the hateful message put into the mural in Bastion Square. And shame on Lisa Helps for not having those letters in the mural removed immediately.

I don’t know whether you realized it but the unintended juxtaposition of headlines from some recent Letters to the Editor combined with an ad in the same paper was pretty funny.

I believe that somewhere between optimism and pessimism is a concept called realism.