“I am sick to death of people trying to sell me on a political candidate or a belief,” said Sher Morgan, chair of the Saanich Civic League (SCL).

The UVic Students’ Society (UVSS) and the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) are teaming up to field a survey of eight questions to all the candidates in the upcoming Victoria, Oak Bay, Saanich and Esquimalt municipal elections.

A group of environmental kingpins has endorsed Liberal candidate Briony Penn in the Saanich-Gulf Islands riding and NDP incumbent Denise Savoie in the Victoria riding in a move that they hope will prevent vote-splitting among “small g” green candidates.

The commanding tone and content of the B.C. government’s first ever ‘letters of expectation’ to public post-secondary institutions has ignited a backlash from university stakeholders, including the organization representing B.C. professors.

Gary Lunn made a dangerous move when he fired Canada’s head of nuclear safety.

Most of the rights to log on public forest lands are held by just a few lumber companies, a situation decried by value-added businesses who say they can’t find enough willing suppliers of wood.

For students leaving the family nest for the first time, living in university residences may seem almost utopian. You get a bed, a roof, new friends, cafeteria food — all tucked cozily within the quaint Ring-Roadian bubble of UVic.

UVic residence advisers (RAs) might unionize, but they want more information first.