Opinion

For years my pet peeve has been drivers on the Hart Highway who, still to today, either don't care about the "Keep Right Except To Pass" signs posted up and down the highway or they choose to ignore them, which is really one in the same.

Re: "Life may have had an inorganic origin," July 2 article by Todd Whitcombe. With reference to the Urey/Miller experiment as being "...a very simple, straightforward demonstration synthesized in a lab...

Toodling along Central Saanich Road last week, I spied a couple of white plastic lawn chairs at the opposite ends of a bus stop. They faced slightly away from each other, as though they had just had a tiff and were no longer on speaking terms.

The biggest debate that runs through the philosophy of art is about authenticity.

With all the controversial information put out by B.C. Hydro, the B.C. government and others on the need for Site C, one wonders how any individual in BC could possibly know what is taking place.

When my long-suffering father was teaching me how to drive, we spent a lot of time crying (me) and sighing (him). It was a time of great angst and disappointment.

The world has changed a lot over the last five decades. I picked five decades as a length of time because it is how long I have been alive but it also takes us from the 1960s to now. It is a length of time that has seen the world's population double.

First of all , I compliment you on your daily editorial. I think it was just two or three years ago that we were first offered a daily local opinion. Reprints from other papers are necessary from time to time of course but not all the time.

The best part about being anonymous is being able to change everything about your identity without having to justify it. The same goes for the increasingly infamous online group Anonymous.

A large part of my job as a first-person historical interpreter is to give voice to those who can no longer speak for themselves. I try to never lose sight of the awesome responsibility that has been entrusted to me.