View Royal council has always maintained that they are very community oriented and involved. Their actions however do not support that thesis.

Every second Monday evening, I put my blue box on the curb of my Langford home.

Since the beginning of the Blue Box program, the onus has been on consumers to recycle.

LetB次元官网网址檚 assume that when everyone in B.C. gets to be finance minister for a day, a majority choose to throw a $3-billion chair through the office window to show how mad they are about the harmonized sales tax. The cleanup will take two years, but first there will be a provincial election to decide who holds the broom and dustpan. And the choices are becoming clear.

Ida Chong weighs in on the HST

The complications surrounding the HST referendum seem to be multiplying. First, a counterintuitive question requires that HST critics voice their opposition by voting B次元官网网址測es.B次元官网网址� Next, details of the mail-in ballot reveal a three-envelope process with multi-step instructions. ItB次元官网网址檚 not rocket science, but any barrier to voting should be taken seriously in a province where voter turnout reached a new low of 51 per cent in 2009.

Carole James weighs in on the HST

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If Premier Christy Clark is really serious about putting families first, then she can really help Greater Victoria residents in two ways.

B.C. has too much to lose scrapping the HST