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It was a dark day for environmental research in sa国际传媒 when the federal government axed marine-mammal toxicologist Peter Ross and his team from the Institute of Ocean Sciences in North Saanich.

Finance Minister Mike de Jong said it best when he described the sa国际传媒 budget he unveiled Tuesday as 鈥渂alanced on a razor鈥檚 edge.鈥� A razor鈥檚 edge it is. The budget calls for a surplus of $175 million with total spending of $44.

The sa国际传媒 government is handing our blue boxes to a private organization, but it can鈥檛 escape responsibility for fixing problems with the new system.

If last week鈥檚 federal budget sounded familiar, it should. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is following, step for step, the same playbook the sa国际传媒 Liberals used. Flaherty could have balanced the budget this year 鈥� in all likelihood he has done. The $2.

One of the problems with trying to modify other people鈥檚 behaviour is that it almost never works, but that isn鈥檛 stopping the City of Victoria from trying to change the way drivers park downtown.

Premier Christy Clark says this week鈥檚 throne speech was a sign of her 鈥渦nwavering consistency鈥� 鈥� and it鈥檚 hard to argue with that description.

The federal government and First Nations leaders have made a deal that could improve education on reserves. Making it work will require goodwill to overcome generations of bitter feelings.

The province of sa国际传媒 has many systems to protect children 鈥� but when one 14-year-old called repeatedly for help, those systems collapsed.

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It appears the sa国际传媒 Transplant agency is finally turning things around. For years, our province had a dreadful record in organ transplants. In the decade leading up to 2007, the number of tissue donations fell 50 per cent in sa国际传媒