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So Omar Khadr, the Canadian who confessed to throwing the grenade that killed an American soldier, is to receive more than $10 million in compensation from our federal government.

With completion of the Johnson Street Bridge once again delayed, and costs running $43 million over budget, what assurances do we have that lessons have been learned? The manager responsible, Jonathan Huggett, has laid out in sobering detail numerous

The duties of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½â€™s lieutenant-governor are largely ceremonial. That doesn’t mean she isn’t useful — she’s the needed and welcome non-partisan face of government; she represents all the people, not just those of a certain political stripe.

Every week, we have been looking back at editorials from our predecessor newspaper, The Daily British Colonist and Victoria Chronicle, in 1867.

All three parties in the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ legislature have advocated campaign-finance reform. Let’s hope that goal doesn’t get overlooked or watered down after the dust settles and the legislators get back to the business of legislating. The sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

While members of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½â€™s legislature play their political games, sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ and the U.S. are involved in a softwood-lumber war that could cost the provincial economy dearly.

A few years ago, we lamented on this page that sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ was in danger of losing its world-class title for goofy politics. How naïve we were. The reputation of wackiness was well-earned. As British journalist Matthew Engel once noted, sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

In a society plagued with so many problems, what can one person do? A lot, as Rev. Tom Oshiro has shown. Oshiro, 89, died last week after a lifetime dedicated to helping people physically and spiritually.

Schools in Greater Victoria, like others across North America, are confronting the fallout from a Netflix series about bullying, teen suicide and sexual assault.

It’s no surprise Vancouver Islanders feel slighted by the provincial government. The sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Liberals said we paid a price for having just two MLAs on the government side. The NDP promised to do better.