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It’s time for a critical review and reset of the national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. The inquiry is needed. Indigenous women have a murder rate at least four times higher than other Canadians.

Premier Christy Clark is going down fighting, and it’s the best thing she could do for the province.

Whether you wanted change or not, you’re getting it — and British Columbia is going to be much different in four years than it would have been under a renewed sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Liberal mandate.

The sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Green Party, which holds the balance of power in the legislature, has made its choice, which will probably see New Democrat John Horgan moving into the premier’s office before much longer. Details to come. Those missing details are crucial.

This year marks the 150th anniversary of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½, so every Sunday we are looking back at editorials from our predecessor newspaper, The Daily British Colonist and Victoria Chronicle, in 1867.

A setback has occurred in the effort to combat sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½â€™s fentanyl crisis. Health sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ has been forced to delay the introduction of new prescribing guidelines for heavy-duty painkillers.

The votes have been tallied, the 2017 election results are final and we’re in the same position we were in on election night. sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ is marching — or stumbling — into uncharted territory.

Space is getting tight in Greater Victoria schools, which seems like an impossible statement after years of school closures.

A coroner’s inquest into the death of 20-year-old Rhett Mutch, shot by police in his mother’s Dallas Road home, produced a dozen recommendations. They were all useful, and likely to be ignored.

Canadian air travellers have finally been promised some protection from at least some of the indignities and aggravations heaped upon them by the airlines.