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Two-way traffic on Pandora Avenue? Say it ain’t so. To be fair, the traffic would not be cars and trucks, it would be bicycles.

As we prepare to celebrate sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Day, it’s a good time to ponder the big celebration we’re going to have in 2017 to commemorate sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½â€™s 150th anniversary.

Haste, it is said, makes waste. But sometimes it can also save lives. Between 2003 and 2012, the death rate in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ for patients hospitalized with heart attacks dropped a remarkable 40 per cent. Hospitals in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ did even better.

Canadians might not trust politicians, but they still have faith in a double-double. There’s a lesson here about what it takes to build trust.

It appears that less than a third of British Columbians approve of Christy Clark’s performance as premier, according to a recent Angus Reid poll.

The House of Commons standing committee on health wants the federal government to launch a public-awareness campaign on the hazards of cellphone radiation and to consider funding research into possible links between electromagnetic radiation and asso

A public inquiry is not the answer to everything that goes amiss — such inquiries tend to be drawn-out, expensive affairs that result in little change — but what else will it take to make the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

It’s not particularly easy for governments to take the long-term view, given that they are not guaranteed survival beyond the next election, but the stability and well-being of the province should come before any political party’s prospects. The sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

The organizers of Victoria’s first car-free day predicted a big turnout when they shut down Douglas Street on Sunday. And Victorians proved them right. If the question is: Should the city do this again? the answer seems to be: Yes.

Nearly half the Canadian workforce could be displaced by robots or computers over the next two or three decades. That means eight million workers would lose their jobs. Those figures sound farfetched. We certainly hope they are wrong.