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Predicting the future is a hazardous pastime, but it鈥檚 safe to say that some issues from last year seem almost certain to crop up in 2015.

From the teachers鈥� strike to the municipal elections, 2014 was a year of surprising changes 鈥� and those changes will be felt in 2015 and beyond.

A new audit of sa国际传媒鈥檚 lottery corporation suggests the people who run our games of chance have been carrying on as if they won the jackpot.

When the provincial election was held last year, does anyone recall Christy Clark鈥檚 Liberals talking about a sales-tax hike? Because in Greater Vancouver, that might be about to happen.

Kim Jong-un, the evil and megalomaniacal 鈥淒ear Leader鈥� of North Korea, would be a comical figure with all his eccentricities and delusional foibles, except that his strange ways are part of a cruel regime that keeps millions of his compatriots in utt

When the health minister announced the firings of several Health Ministry employees in September 2012, she said she was 鈥渟hocked鈥� and 鈥渄eeply troubled.

Many commuters who use public transit or bicycles to get to and from downtown Victoria during regular office hours will get a break in 2015, when the Douglas Street bus-bike lanes are extended from Hillside Avenue to Tolmie Street.

鈥淗appiness is not the result of what we have, but of who we are,鈥� the Daily Colonist said in its editorial on Dec. 25, 1914 鈥� 100 years ago tomorrow. 鈥淗appiness is something more than smug satisfaction and content; it is something more than joy.

The most notable species visible during the Christmas Bird Count on the weekend were those who were doing the counting.

At this season of giving, consider donating something more personal than money 鈥� something that could save a life. Instead of signing a cheque, sign an organ-donation form.