Opinion

Victoria and Esquimalt harbours need long-term plan

Kevin Neish's mission to Israel is worthy

Let’s assume that when everyone in B.C. gets to be finance minister for a day, a majority choose to throw a $3-billion chair through the office window to show how mad they are about the harmonized sales tax. The cleanup will take two years, but first there will be a provincial election to decide who holds the broom and dustpan. And the choices are becoming clear.

Ida Chong weighs in on the HST

Following a March column in which I chastized feminism for having taken women’s rights too far in some cases, a reader called me a Southern Albertan Bible-thumper, or something to that effect. She was right, in a small way. I’m actually from central Alberta. The Bible part doesn’t apply to me at all, though.

The complications surrounding the HST referendum seem to be multiplying. First, a counterintuitive question requires that HST critics voice their opposition by voting “yes.” Next, details of the mail-in ballot reveal a three-envelope process with multi-step instructions. It’s not rocket science, but any barrier to voting should be taken seriously in a province where voter turnout reached a new low of 51 per cent in 2009.

Carole James weighs in on the HST