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Municipal mayors and councillors should be paid adequately for what they do, but they 鈥� and other elected officials 鈥� should not set their own salaries.

Extending foster care beyond the age of 19 would be a good investment, in both human and financial terms. Leaving home presents challenges for anyone 鈥� applying for post-secondary education, getting a job, finding a place to live.

The sa国际传媒 government kept crucial information from the Saanich school district while the district was forced to scrap a project that took years of work and more than a million dollars.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been known to belt out a Beatles tune or two, and even a bit of Bachman Turner Overdrive, but if his government needed a theme song, it could easily adopt a 1983 hit by the Police: 鈥淓very breath you take, every move

鈥楲ive long and prosper鈥� was the Vulcan greeting from the Star Trek television series. If the federal government does not alter its rules regarding retirement savings, the Canadian version of that greeting could become 鈥渓ive long or prosper.

At dawn on June 6, 1944 鈥� 70 years ago today 鈥� 14,000 Canadian soldiers took part in the greatest amphibious campaign in history, the D-Day landings in Normandy.

Seattle鈥檚 city council has passed a law raising its minimum wage from $9 an hour to $15 an hour. Some advocates for raising the minimum wage say it will help pull people out of poverty, while opponents say it will increase unemployment.

Some elected officials shoot off their mouths without thinking and some officials can鈥檛 seem to say a word without consulting their spin doctors.

When the provincial Liberals held their annual convention last weekend, Christy Clark made a surprising pitch. It seems the premier thinks her party needs 鈥渞ebranding.

A gracious apology is good, but behaviour that negates the need for an apology is far better. Politicians need to be more careful with what they say and write, so apologies aren鈥檛 needed.