Opinion

On arriving at government house this week, B.C. Liberal MLA Sam Sullivan paused to banter briefly with the assembled members of the press gallery. Cabinet appointment? No, nothing like that, he joshed.

Part one of two In public settings, only the rudest or most ignorant individuals know not to spit out racial slurs. In private conversations, however, racism is still alive and well.

One of the things about travelling in the car with small children is that a parent gets accustomed to pointing out things that you know the kids will enjoy.

If you had the good fortune in the past to eat at the Luna Rossa Italian Restaurant before they closed, you will easily recognize Tony and Flora Carpino, the subjects of my column today.

In many ways, baseball is a very simple game which boils down to pitching and hitting. Good pitching can make batting the ball an almost impossible task. Indeed, really good pitching leads to a no-hitter and ultimately to a perfect game.

Premier Christy Clark's new cabinet will give a brief glimpse of what might have been, before they have to move to the other side of the aisle and start asking questions, instead of answering them.

At Monday night's City Council meeting, Mayor Lyn Hall presented a recommendation from councillors Garth Frizzell, Brian Skakun and Susan Scott, to rescind the first two readings of a bylaw which would have resulted in therezoning of a parcel of land

Five hundred years ago, back when Scotch was just whisky, almost everybody in Scotland could make and sell it.

The two languages of money are English and Math. Okay, three. Chinese. I was generally one of the smart kids in high school math, but university calculus was something else.

Tomorrow, the signing of the Great Charter or Magna Carta, will turn 802 years old. This document remains the first real codification of what we take now for granted as our liberties. But most importantly, it puts a check on arbitrary power.