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Editorial: Why is our regional crime rate so high?

Editorial: Why is our regional crime rate so high?

The Victoria Police Department has announced a new project titled #WarrantWednesday. The idea is to devote Wednesdays to tracking down criminals with outstanding arrest warrants.
Editorial: Carbon tax just another cash grab

Editorial: Carbon tax just another cash grab

It is becoming clearer by the day that sa国际传媒鈥檚 carbon tax is not working as originally promised. When then-premier Gordon Campbell introduced the levy in 2008, his government assured us it would be 鈥渞evenue neutral.
Editorial: Vaccines a huge step in war on disease

Editorial: Vaccines a huge step in war on disease

The COVID-19 vaccines in circulation represent not just our best option for taming the epidemic, they are a huge step forward in the war on disease. That鈥檚 because they employ a completely new 颅technique in fighting infection.
Editorial: Motor coach industry deserves support

Editorial: Motor coach industry deserves support

The COVID-19 pandemic will be over someday 鈥 maybe this year, thanks to vaccines, and maybe with a whimper, or maybe with a bang. We need to start planning for what our community, and our world, will look like.
Editorial: Travelling council members should quit

Editorial: Travelling council members should quit

The spectacle of Canadian politicians flouting travel restrictions has brought an already unloved profession into outright disrepute.
Editorial: What COVID-19 might have in store for us

Editorial: What COVID-19 might have in store for us

So as a new decade dawns upon us, will we see a rerun of the Roaring Twenties, or a re-do of the Dirty Thirties? The answer lies in what the COVID-19 virus holds in store for us.
Editorial: The Person of the Year is...

Editorial: The Person of the Year is...

Who is the Person of the Year? Who made the biggest 颅difference in our lives in this terrible year of 2020? At this time every year we are asked 鈥淲ho is the Person of the Year?鈥 In a year that has been so different than any other, maybe we need to lo
Editorial: In 2020 as in 1920: Better times ahead

Editorial: In 2020 as in 1920: Better times ahead

If anything can be learned from history, there might be no better example than Christmas in 1920, a century ago. There was much to celebrate this week in 1920, as can be seen in the pages of the old Victoria Daily Times and the Daily Colonist.
Editorial: We should heed those travel restrictions

Editorial: We should heed those travel restrictions

A number of readers have wondered why sa国际传媒 Ferries is laying on 23 extra sailings over the Christmas period. Isn鈥檛 non-essential travel discouraged? The answer to that question is yes, but it is only discouraged, not forbidden.
Editorial: COVID-19 path forward calls for public involvement

Editorial: COVID-19 path forward calls for public involvement

Public health experts now believe the COVID-19 epidemic will continue well into next year and quite possibly beyond. That means masks and social distancing are going to remain part of our lives for some time to come.