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After we carefully separate our kitchen scraps so they can be taken to a composting plant, there is a 50 per cent chance they will instead end up in the garbage dump. No, we鈥檙e not supposed to call it a dump; it鈥檚 a landfill.

The people who defend our coasts have to watch 27,200 kilometres of shoreline, and we should give them more tools to keep out enemies and criminals.

Islanders grump about the sa国际传媒 Liberals lavishing money on highway and transit projects in the Lower Mainland, but Premier Christy Clark has come up with one that even Victorians can approve: A bridge to replace the George Massey Tunnel.

The tentative agreement between the sa国际传媒 government and school support staff brings a certain sense of relief, but it鈥檚 only a lull in the perpetual state of negotiating.

If job creation is Premier Christy Clark鈥檚 top priority, as we repeatedly hear it is, she should turn her attention to the farm sector.

The rules will change for next year鈥檚 municipal elections, but the reforms that were at the top of many people鈥檚 lists will have to wait 鈥� the ones about money.

Adrian Dix has taken the fall for the New Democratic Party鈥檚 defeat in the provincial election. Party members would be foolish to think their troubles will depart with him.

The incompetence of child-welfare agencies in two provinces condemned a little girl to 18 months of terrible abuse. She was lucky to escape with her life. Reading the summary by Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, sa国际传媒

鈥業f it ain鈥檛 broke, don鈥檛 fix it鈥� is good advice, but the sa国际传媒 government seems to have it backwards regarding the Victoria Police Board.

The term 鈥渋nsane asylum鈥� fell into disfavour long ago, but asylum is what some mentally ill people need. The province should heed the call from sa国际传媒鈥檚 municipalities to provide more secure spaces for psychiatric treatment.