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After the auditor general for local government was fired five months ago, Premier Christy Clark said: 鈥淎ll the options are on the table.鈥� Those options were understood to include eliminating the office entirely.

No one should get too excited, one way or the other, about the floating liquefied-natural-gas plant proposed for the Saanich Inlet. It鈥檚 certainly not going to happen soon; there鈥檚 a good chance it will never happen.

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It鈥檚 hard to feel sorry for those whose names and personal data have been posted online after hackers stole massive amounts of sensitive customer information from the infidelity website Ashley Madison.

The provincial government is considering toughening animal-cruelty laws to make it easier to rescue pets from overheated parked cars.

Crews who battle wildfires already have a difficult job 鈥� they don鈥檛 need rogue drones adding to the risks.

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British Columbia鈥檚 auditor general says the Health Ministry鈥檚 new system for managing communicable diseases is a mess. Carol Bellringer鈥檚 report is a scathing critique of both the public and private agencies that managed the project.

In the 1970s, television stations would broadcast public service announcements that asked: 鈥淧arents, do you know where your children are?鈥� The messages ran late at night, the implication being that the kids were out hell-raising.

Racial profiling 鈥� presuming someone will behave a certain way because of ethnic origin 鈥� is a pernicious practice in law enforcement, but a benevolent form of it could help improve or save lives when applied to health care.