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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took a political gamble Tuesday, approving the expansion of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline, a move that will undoubtedly gain him support in Alberta and cost him support in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

The Insurance Corp. of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ needs to return to its original purpose of serving the people, not politicians.

The sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ child and youth advocacy group First Call has released its 2016 child-poverty report. Two dominant facts stand out. Our province’s child-poverty rate continues to exceed the national average. And inadequate support by the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

It is beneficial to modify our language, to reject terms that disparage, demean or carry with them bigotry and prejudice.

A citizen advocacy group, Democracy Watch, is taking the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ conflict of interest commissioner to court. The group claims commissioner Paul Fraser ruled incorrectly in dismissing two complaints against Premier Christy Clark.

It’s difficult to see how Nanaimo’s broken city council can be fixed without outside intervention. The province should step in on behalf of the citizens of Nanaimo.

Jim Munro was a visionary who left his mark on his community, on sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ and on the world.

The question of what to do with Ship Point has been asked so many times, maybe we should rename it Point Dither. Let’s hope the latest move results in action, and not just another blizzard of words about potential and possibilities.

The sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ government deserves credit for modernizing the province’s liquor laws — many of the regulations were arcane, unnecessarily complex and counterproductive — but the latest move goes too far. As of Jan.

For more than a decade, mental-health experts have been begging GPs to stop prescribing anti-psychotic drugs for children who don’t need them. Yet the message doesn’t seem to be getting through.