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Valuable services offered by PEERS are shutting down because the non-profit agency’s work doesn’t fit well into a government box. The province should rebuild its box, so PEERS can go on helping people who have no one else on their side.

Students, teachers and taxpayers need a long-term solution to the perpetual funding crisis in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½â€™s schools.

Over the next couple of weeks, thousands of kids on the Island will head off to university for the first time. It’s an exciting prospect — finalizing course selection, hunting for accommodation, starting friendships that may last a lifetime.

Photo radar has been proven to decrease traffic fatalities, reduce speeding and create political headaches. The third effect should not be allowed to trump the other two.

Visitor centres in Victoria and other sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ vacation hotspots are seeing fewer tourists, and it could be because more people are doing their travel research online or on their smartphones.

While New Democrat Leader Thomas Mulcair is visiting Victoria today with his campaign to abolish the Senate, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is still awaiting the Supreme Court’s opinions on what Parliament can and can’t do regarding the red chamber.

When young people end up in youth-custody centres like the one in Victoria, it’s too easy to dismiss them as “bad kids.

People with mental-health issues are using an increasing amount of police time and resources. That’s nothing new — what’s remarkable is that nothing gets done about it.

The residents of Adelaide Avenue have discovered the hard way that there is no such thing as a small oil spill, and their experience should warn us not to underestimate the difficulty of cleaning up a tanker spill on our coast.

The waters are steadily rising, and here on the coast, we need to take the long view if we hope to keep our children’s feet dry.