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Canadians trying to peer into the depths of the Senate scandal find the water just keeps getting muddier. The unending talk about senators Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin and Patrick Brazeau just raises more questions at a time when voters need answers.

The necessity for a business licence is clear — it helps ensure a business is legitimate, qualified and properly situated in a municipality. It’s not so clear why an established business should have to renew its licence each year.

Esquimalt’s roads weren’t designed to take a steady pounding from heavy trucks.

Voting on the Internet might be the wave of the future, but it’s too soon for sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ to catch that wave. Elections sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

The Turner building is a structure full of memories for many Victorians. The memories are worth preserving. The building? Probably not. The building on Richmond Road near the Royal Jubilee Hospital dates from the 1940s.

The sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Education Ministry is moving in a good direction with a proposed redesign of the curriculum for kindergarten through Grade 9. Like all fields, education must adapt to expanding knowledge and changing conditions.

Whether the ancient Greeks really got past the gates of Troy with a wooden horse is unclear. But a modern version of the ploy is being used against the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Health Ministry.

Two powerful agendas appear headed for a collision as increasingly chummy federal and provincial politicians push ahead with pipelines to the west coast while a majority of British Columbians oppose the Northern Gateway plan. sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

Saanich police and Crown prosecutors learned a hard lesson about the dangers of trial-by-YouTube this week. The rest of us should also pay attention.

British Columbia’s ferry system is a constant target of criticism, and while it is not all it should be and, we hope, not all it will become, we should pause occasionally to recognize what a jewel it is.