Opinion

I was reading through our weekly Calendar and came across a help wanted ad placed by the District of Lake Country, “Gardener, March 1 to November 30.”

The tracks of the deer left Bottom Wood Lake Road to follow the diagonal rows through the apple orchard. I followed his trail for a while, a buck by the large, sharp, cloven hooves. What a life! Fresh fruit and grass to eat all night, a snug bed to spend the day close to his larder, I envied him. He pays no taxes, has few predators, complete freedom, and a full belly most days. It doesn’t get any better than that.

Re: Cash needed to keep amenities, Calendar February 2

By 3 pm on Friday afternoon, the protesters in central Cairo were chanting: “Where is the army? Come and see what the police are doing to us. We want the army.” And that is the main question, really: where is the Egyptian army in all this?

VICTORIA – As the minutes ticked down to last week’s deadline for NDP leadership candidates to sell memberships, the Adrian Dix campaign brought in stacks of memberships and bags of money, which was then divvied up and attached to memberships.

It’s time to think about the nature of the next Arab-Israeli war. The release by the Arab satellite network al-Jazeera of 16,000 leaked Palestinian documents covering the past ten years of peace negotiations has driven a stake through the heart of the already moribund “peace process,” and we hear constant warnings that when the hope of a peace settlement is finally extinguished, the next step is a return to war. So what would that war be like?