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The sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ government is fixing election-campaign finance rules, and it should waste no time in doing the same for municipal elections.

A new report by Seniors Advocate Isobel Mackenzie demands our attention. Mackenzie surveyed 22,000 residents of long-term care facilities across the province. She also contacted 20,000 friends and family members.

Among the hundreds of millions of dollars allocated in the NDP government’s budget update last week is a $7-million boost over three years to the Residential Tenancy Branch.

Homebuyers and home-sellers in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ could sleep more soundly if the province bans the practice of allowing the same real estate agent to represent both sides in a sale. The sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

The NDP-Green political financing bill is an outrage and a betrayal.

Saanich Police Chief Bob Downie retired July 31, collecting a farewell cheque for $379,000 in severance and banked pay. The next day, he went back to work in his old job as a contractor, paid $223,000 plus benefits.

We don’t know how well comedian Chris Rock performed in Vancouver last week, but he deserves a standing ovation for requiring his audience to lock up phones and other electronic devices.

In this 150th anniversary of the creation of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½, we are looking back at editorials published in our predecessor newspaper in 1867. This week, the editors look at rather messy issue — the ravine adjacent to Johnson Street downtown.

In releasing her midterm budget update, Carole James appears to have followed the game plan of her predecessor, Mike de Jong. Neither finance minister levelled with us. In February 2016, de Jong brought down the last full budget his sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

Langford Mayor Stew Young’s criticism of a proposed regional transportation authority demonstrates why it’s so badly needed.