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Editorial: The power of one person

Do you think one person can鈥檛 make a difference? We have $10 that says otherwise. That鈥檚 the $10 bill that will feature Viola Desmond (1914-1965), a black woman who chose to sit on the whites-only main floor of a New Glasgow, N.S.
Editorial: The Empress needs a grand entrance

Editorial: The Empress needs a grand entrance

The Empress Hotel is a privately owned business, yet many Victorians feel a sense of ownership because of its heritage aspects and its dominance of the Inner Harbour.

Editorial: Electoral-reform website an insult

The federal Liberal government鈥檚 attempt to ascertain Canadians鈥 feelings about our voting system is clumsy and ill-conceived at best. At worst, it is a not-so-subtle attempt to swing public sentiment in its favour.

Editorial: Crystal Pool presents an opportunity

What do you do with a problem like the Crystal Pool? Turn it into an opportunity. Don鈥檛 simply renovate or rebuild the pool, but look for innovative ways to make the downtown recreation centre something more than it is.

Editorial: Pearl Harbor still haunts us

Seventy-five years ago today, planes from the Japanese navy attacked the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored in Hawaii鈥檚 Pearl Harbor, 鈥渁 date which will live in infamy,鈥 in the words of U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Editorial: Trudeau waffles on vote reform

During the election campaign, Justin Trudeau promised emphatically and repeatedly that 2015 would be the last federal election held under the first-past-the-post system, the system that gave the Conservatives under Stephen Harper a majority in the Ho

Editorial: Cutting wait lists is not impossible

It has been apparent for years that wait lists for hip and knee surgery are unacceptably long in sa国际传媒 Across the province, just 61 per cent of patients requiring a hip replacement receive treatment within the benchmark period of 26 weeks.

Editorial: Ball dropped on Colquitz spill

It should not have taken citizen volunteers to sound the alarm about mud and dirty water from the McKenzie interchange project entering the Colquitz River 鈥 it鈥檚 the provincial government鈥檚 responsibility to protect the environment.

Editorial: Get rid of fentanyl market

Victoria police and the sa国际传媒 Border Services Agency are to be commended for a major drug bust that prevented 6,000 potentially lethal doses of fentanyl from reaching the streets.

Editorial: Housing supply needs boosting

The increase in home sales to foreign buyers in Greater Victoria is worth monitoring, but it shouldn鈥檛 be allowed to distract from the core problem: the shortage of supply. sa国际传媒