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It was gratifying to see the support given to a motion from a Vancouver Island MP aimed at eliminating the wage gap between men and women, but it’s sad that such a motion is deemed necessary in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ in 2016.

A balanced, confident, intelligent person has no need to be aggressive or ridicule others to compensate for fears, insecurities and shortcomings.

If you want to have your say on the region’s biggest-ever infrastructure project, you had better do it fast — the opportunity for public input is rapidly dwindling.

The clerk is probably one of the least-noticed people in a courtroom, but without that officer of the court, the wheels of justice grind to a halt.

Obedience to lawful orders is the foundation of military discipline. When that discipline falters, so does the effectiveness of an army, navy or air force.

It should not be up to municipalities and nonprofit groups to manage deer and other urban wildlife — the province should take leadership. Oak Bay has budgeted $40,000 for deer management this year.

It’s bad enough that we have to be constantly on guard against online snoops and scamsters who would use our personal data for nefarious purposes — we shouldn’t have to worry what the government does with the information it collects about us.

The Capital Regional District shouldn’t be in a hurry to pave paradise. The CRD proposes to pave sections of Lochside Trail between Martindale Road in Central Saanich and Lochside Park in Saanich.

Liberal MP Mauril Bélanger wants to change a few words of O sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½, and why not? Our national anthem has been changed several times before and the country has managed to stay more or less intact.

No one ever imagined it would be easy to build a new wastewater system for the capital region. There were competing technologies to consider, differences of opinion between municipalities, the tendency of government projects to overrun their budgets.