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Kudos to Victoria city staff for backing away from a plan to extend pay parking into the evenings on downtown streets. Having to plug the meter after 6 p.m. would not have attracted people to the downtown.

Health Minister Terry Lake is offering to raise the salaries of forensic psychiatrists. Whatever the amount of the raise, let鈥檚 not begrudge a penny of it. It鈥檚 probably not enough.

When the Quebec election campaign kicked off, Pauline Marois and her Parti Qu茅b茅cois appeared to be headed for a majority government, raising angst about another separation referendum in Quebec.

Revelations continue to emerge about extravagant expenditures of public funds at the Portland Hotel Society. The society manages subsidized housing in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.

Slowly but steadily, the communities on Vancouver Island are resolving themselves into two solitudes. Greater Victoria and the southern Gulf Islands are becoming an affluent, job-rich zone with high standards of living.

If Vancouver-Mount Pleasant MLA Jenny Kwan had been doing her job, she would have been the one to expose the Portland Hotel Society scandal, rather than being caught up in it.

Stars can rise quickly and fall quickly in politics, as Alberta Premier Alison Redford well knows. To stay in power, a premier needs to stay connected to the caucus, but even more important, that leader needs to be in tune with the people.

It can be painful to hand over a hefty chunk of money when property taxes come due, but paying taxes with a credit card won鈥檛 do much to ease the pain.

When John Horgan announced in January that he wouldn鈥檛 run for the leadership of the sa国际传媒 New Democrats, he said the party should look to the 鈥渘ext generation鈥� for a leader who would inject fresh blood into the party.

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