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Head down, absorbed in the fascination of his smartphone, the pedestrian walks into a lamp post — or onto a crosswalk. We laugh at the first and cringe at the second, because some of those distracted walkers get hit by cars.

When Abbotsford police Const. John Davidson was shot and killed on Monday, the community responded immediately in shared grief. Residents and fellow officers gathered outside the police station in a spontaneous vigil.

Patients and families have every right to be concerned and angry at last week’s report on a radio-logist who worked at hospitals across the province — including Vancouver Island — despite serious performance problems.

Less than two weeks after an abandoned vessel sank in Ladysmith Harbour, the federal government has introduced legislation to clean up the rotting boats that foul our coasts.

In this 150th anniversary of the creation of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½, we are looking back at editorials published in our predecessor newspaper in 1867.

One of the most remarkable accomplishments of the last half-century has gone almost unnoticed. Before the 1970s, the average life expectancy of a child born with Down syndrome was less than 10 years. Today, it is close to 60, and still growing.

The report on the Site C dam project is in, and if Premier John Horgan was hoping for an easy way out of a painful dilemma, he didn’t get it. The sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Utilities Commission, which had been shut out of important decisions by the previous sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

A vote by Saanich councillors reflected the divisions in the municipality over an environmental-protection bylaw that sparked a campaign by homeowners.

The thing to remember about the uproar over Cody the dog is that it wasn’t really about the dog.

The provincial government is going to bat for renters who are squeezed by high rents in a market where vacancy rates hover near zero. It’s not a magic bullet, but it will help.