Welcome to wet weather season in British Columbia! Some areas are blessed with this situation more often than others, but drivers need to be aware of the perils of wet highways. The well being of you and other road users depend on it. Wet Weather Makes Pavement Slippery Wet pavement alone can increase stopping distances […]

What makes change last? The meaning of historic transformations “We study History in order to intervene in history.” — Adolf von Harnack “History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are.” — Eamonn Duffy A film about changing times If you have not seen the biopic about Bob Dylan, A Complete Unknown, I recommend […]

Question: Some drivers don’t seem to realize that yield signs require them to do something laments a reader. They zoom right by and force their way into traffic as if the sign wasn’t even there. Don’t they realize that they can’t do this? The Motor Vehicle Act is very definite about what a driver must […]

Black History Month is an opportunity to learn about and celebrate and lift up the diverse contributions of Black people to our province. I would like to highlight this collage that was compiled by Beth Cruise for BC Black History Awareness. It is part of an exhibit that reveals how about 800 Black immigrants helped […]

When I was young there was no such thing as a booster seat. We thought nothing of throwing a mattress in the back of the station wagon, loading up my brother and sisters and heading off on holidays. We would sprawl on that mattress reading comic books or playing games. Sometimes we even fought over […]

While many Canadians continue to struggle to pay for groceries and find a place to live, the federal parliament has been paralyzed for months with filibusters and scandals.  Then, just as the new year began, work in Ottawa came to an official grinding halt as Justin Trudeau prorogued parliament until late March. Many constituents have […]

This week’s correspondence contained a request to explain what pedestrian signals mean. The gentleman who sent me the e-mail expressed the opinion that many people either did not know what pedestrian signals mean or choose to deliberately disobey them. Would I please explain so that they would know what to do. Perhaps we should start […]

By Antony Hodgson, President, Fair Voting BC In a recent editorial entitled “Financial Responsibility is the Top Priority“, the editorial board of the Times-Colonist newspaper in Victoria criticized the NDP and the Green Party for agreeing to strike an all-party committee to consider preferred methods of proportional representation. Times-Colonist Editors Indulged in Unsupported Speculation While […]

The raging infernos devastating the Los Angeles area are tragic and horrifying — thousands of homes lost, at least 100,000 people under evacuation order or in emergency shelters and dozens killed. One consolation is the number of people and organizations from all over that have stepped up to help —individuals, faith groups, food providers, firefighters […]

  A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.  — George Eliot A secret about friendships in adulthood: Sometimes they […]