Opinion

The current education minister does not seem to understand that the first requirement of the job is to have the province's children in school from early September till late June.

VICTORIA — When veteran mediator Vince Ready declared an "impasse" in the teacher contract talks, he provided a reality check against notions that his method was to work some sort of magic at the bargaining table.

If there is one thing B.C. teachers and the provincial Liberal government can agree on, it's that their latest dispute isn't just about wages or class sizes or special-needs students or even the buckets of bad blood weighing both of them down.

To help brighten our visit to a junior hockey game, my dad invited my precocious little girl cousin to join us at a game. She was a little younger than me – about 10 years old – and lots of fun to be around.

For those pondering throwing their hat into this year's campaign for mayor, city councillor, regional district director and school board trustee, the best way to decide if it's worth suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune for four year

Schools I fear that I will never see Our schools equipped as they should be Our schools where eager minds attest To education at its best Our schools where every students' needs Are honoured over budget's freeze Our schools where class size represent

"Whoever betrays the country will pay the price, I assure you," Rwanda's President Paul Kagame told a rally soon after the country's former intelligence chief, Patrick Karegeya, was found strangled in a South African hotel room last January.

ICBC for the second time wants to raise basic insurance. When I turned 65 they were to reduce my basic insurance four years in a row by $105. This happened for two years then they hacked the basic rates and I never got two years that they owed me.

My children and I had a privilege of watching the B.C. synchronized swim team performance on this past weekend. I must admit that I had no knowledge of the sport itself at all until now.

Is it possible that we are witnessing the death of the nation-state as we know it? Many would argue that such a question is unanswerable: there just isn't enough history between us and today's events to tell.