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David Bly: Birthday blues attracted a wide audience

David Bly: Birthday blues attracted a wide audience

When Bob and Margaret Nelson sent their grandson birthday greetings last year, they didn鈥檛 expect millions of people to share those greetings. The Colwood couple wrote 18 Year Old Birthday Blues for their grandson, Josh Robertson, last February.
Shannon Corregan: Aboriginal conversation long overdue

Shannon Corregan: Aboriginal conversation long overdue

Last weekend, I drove to Whistler for a bachelorette party. As my friends and I blew up the Sea to Sky highway, we passed a green bilingual Highway sign. 鈥淪quamish,鈥 it said; underneath, 鈥淪kwxwu7mesh.
Comment: Province must take the lead on regional policing

Comment: Province must take the lead on regional policing

The report from the missing-women commission, written by Wally Oppal, while directed to the Lower Mainland, should also act as a catalyst for the creation of a regional police force for Greater Victoria.
Geoff Johnson: Guns have no place in our classrooms

Geoff Johnson: Guns have no place in our classrooms

The Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings of 20 children and six adults are now perilously close to spinning right off the outer edges of the news centrifuge and into a not-news-anymore endless universe.
Les Leyne: Liberal MLA Eric Foster was left in the dark by his colleagues

Les Leyne: Liberal MLA Eric Foster was left in the dark by his colleagues

Liberal MLA Eric Foster is clear on one point 鈥 he had no idea while sitting in judgment on auditor general John Doyle鈥檚 fate that Doyle鈥檚 team had rapped his office earlier for not submitting receipts for a constituency-office renovation.
Column: Fresh start needed in approach to mental health

Column: Fresh start needed in approach to mental health

The Jan. 6 editorial, 鈥淢entally ill need a better system,鈥 was much needed. It seems to me that this could have been headed: 鈥淲hen mentally ill, we need a better system.鈥 In reality, the problem is ours.
And the winner is...

And the winner is...

ME! Yes !!! I got cho sen to participate in t he sa国际传媒 Health Challenge ! So now what? I guess I'll find out on Sunday at the Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence at t heir open house . I am both excited...and frankly ...terrified! Haha...
Andrew Cohen: U.S. has troubles, but will do the right thing

Andrew Cohen: U.S. has troubles, but will do the right thing

In the current issue of Foreign Affairs, the journal of the American foreign policy establishment, Fareed Zakaria asks: 鈥淐an America Be Fixed?鈥 Zakaria, the prominent author and broadcaster, addresses what he calls 鈥渢he new crisis of democracy鈥 facin
Les Leyne: It's important to stay clean when you turf an auditor general

Les Leyne: It's important to stay clean when you turf an auditor general

Ousting a special officer of the legislature from his post can turn into a dirty business. So it鈥檚 best to have clean hands when you start the job. There are new questions about whether the sa国际传媒
Immigration the best gift Canadians can give

Immigration the best gift Canadians can give

I remember blindly following my friends into Grade 8 shop class. Rather quickly, I found I lacked any skill handling heavy machinery to cut pipes or bend metals.