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My sense of outrage at the Lac Mégantic tragedy just keeps growing. While the facts are still being uncovered, it appears that an unmanned train with a volatile cargo was routinely parked on a hill above a town with only brakes to avert disaster.

Stephen Harper has done what all prime ministers do when their governments are in trouble: rearrange faces. Historically, cabinet shuffles are more style than substance, and here the prime minister honours a venerable tradition.

The sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Liberals were proud of themselves for putting the ethnic-outreach scandal to bed just before the election. They issued profuse apologies for the attempt to meld partisan ethnic vote-grubbing with proper government outreach efforts.

The death of Cory Monteith on July 13 shocked the Glee community and fans worldwide. With the cause of death attributed to an overdose of heroin and alcohol, his long struggle with drugs is more evidence of a generation in trouble.

Everywhere we turn these days, it seems there is nothing but tragedy. Not just in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½, with its floods and fires, but all across our fragile planet.

Now that the RCMP are investigating, it’s pretty much guaranteed that the Senate expense scandal will have a devastating impact on the people involved. But it’s sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ that has suffered the worst damage in this scandal. Fortunately, it’s repairable.

Name-calling, someone once said, is the last refuge of the intellectually bankrupt.

You must have known that sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ has strong ties to the Queen.If you don’t like the way things are done here, then why did you come to sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½? I really don’t get it.

The way that I discovered the historic Tudor House Pub in Esquimalt had burned down was when I awoke at 6 a.m. and found an e-mail from a reader who had sent us several photos and a video.

After every election, a new surge of lobbying begins by interest groups and organizations. The sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Liberals can expect to be swamped with requests for meetings, ideas for policy changes, demands for new programs and appeals for insider information.