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If people are drawing the wrong conclusions about the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Liberal government’s firing of several Health Ministry employees in 2012, it’s because of the government’s continued refusal to explain.

The province is getting tougher on distracted drivers, but not tough enough. Penalties should reflect the reality that distracted drivers kill more people than do drunk drivers.

Transport sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ would like to hand over the operation of Victoria’s Inner Harbour aerodrome to local control, but that should not take place without proper studies, a workable plan and sufficient funding.

Victoria residents will probably always complain about parking, but now there’s less to complain about. In a move designed to steer cars away from on-street parking and into city parkades, the city lowered the parkade rate to $2 from $2.

The purpose of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½â€™s Agricultural Land Reserve is to protect farming from encroachment by residential development, among other things, but in one Saanich neighbourhood, residential development needs protection from farming.

Vancouver’s city manager makes twice what the prime minister of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ earns. Some Crown corporations in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ justify bloated executive salaries by comparing themselves with multinational corporations such as Coca-Cola.

Numbers don’t lie, goes the saying. Perhaps, but neither do they tell the whole truth. Greater Victoria police forces are overstaffed, says the Fraser Institute, drawing that conclusion from its study called Police and Crime Rates in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½.

Ron Butlin proved the power of the volunteer. Butlin, who died Wednesday at the age of 89, was the man who almost single-handedly organized the Victoria Day and Christmas parades that delighted thousands of people every year.

Transportation Minister Todd Stone was clearly unhappy with the Union of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Municipalities’ report on the socioeconomic impact of ferry increases on Island and coastal communities.

If everything goes as planned, and the Maritime Museum of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ moves into the CPR Steamship Terminal Building, that will rob 28 Bastion Square of its tenant. The former courthouse is an important piece of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½