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Reporting work-related expenses, including receipts, to your employer is standard procedure — unless you’re a member of Parliament. That should change. It’s our money — we’re entitled to know how it is spent.

It’s time to stop dabbling around the edges of amalgamation and dive right in.

Lemons are growing in North Saanich, and they are just a taste of some of the new crops that are popping up in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ as the temperature gets warmer.

As governments and companies struggle with the problem of where to put contaminated soil, it’s easy to shake our heads and wonder what those people of yesteryear were thinking when they dumped bad stuff onto the land and into the ocean.

After last month’s provincial election, we promised a series of editorials on the major issues facing the new government. Last Sunday we looked at health care. Today’s topic is education.

Some suspects might smile when their cases are dismissed because of court delays, but sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½â€™s logjammed justice system is no laughing matter. No one is well served when cases take too long to be resolved. A sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

Premier Christy Clark’s decision to make big raises for political staffers a post-election priority is an early blow to her government.

When police in Greater Victoria began using a system in which licence-plate numbers were automatically recorded and placed in a database, concerns were raised about the potential for abuse.

Cumbersome bureaucracy is the wrong reason for the Capital Regional District to abandon its pursuit of federal land for sewage-treatment facilities.

The federal government’s response to the Supreme Court ruling on Vancouver’s safe-injection site is cynical and callous, placing politics and prejudice ahead of evidence-based, sound public policy. Drug addiction is obviously destructive.