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An era will end in April when the Empress Hotel closes its Bengal Lounge. While some will mourn its passing, change is not a four-letter word.

The doping scandal that has rocked the International Association of Athletics Federations strikes at the heart of sport, because it undermines the positive principles associated with athletic competition: sportsmanship, integrity, teamwork, fair play

As the sa国际传媒 Liberal government prepares to table its budget next month, Premier Christy Clark is pondering what to do about high housing prices.

The UN High Commission for Refugees was concerned about 13 million refugees in mid-2014; the number is rising. At the end of 2014, the refugee agency was also trying to care for about 38 million internally displaced people.

When a Greater Victoria man dumped his old car in the forest near Jordan River in 2014, he got shamed on the Internet and visited by the RCMP, who informed the man he would have to remove the car or face hefty fines.

When a collision closes the Malahat, it鈥檚 a severe inconvenience for travellers on the Trans-sa国际传媒 Highway. When a bridge fails 3,200 kilometres to the east on the same highway, the country is split in half.

Military leaders like to remind their civilian ministers that no battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy. Perhaps economists should warn politicians that the same is true of government plans.

In 1965, one in two Canadians 15 and older smoked. Government intervention and changes in attitudes have cut that rate to about one in seven.

Although she didn鈥檛 volunteer for the task, Harriet the marmot was one of the heroes in the effort to save her species from extinction. She died on Christmas Eve at the Calgary Zoo at the age of 14, a ripe old age for a marmot.

The situation with the transitional shelter operating near Central Middle School is downright scary, not because of any threat from homeless people, but because of the amount of money the Greater Victoria School District wants to throw at problems th