Commentary

Jody Vance: This New Year’s, make two resolutions: be completely honest with yourself about your mental and emotional state; and promise to ask for help if you need it.

Welcome to UnSpun - The Orca's current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics, and much more.

Checking out early? Not on our watch. Like a bloop single and an error in the outfield, the last episode of 2020 is an unplanned double.

Ada Slivinski: Nobody is saying public health orders shouldn’t apply. But surely there’s a way to let people connect with their faith – even alone, just for a moment.

From lab-grown meat to grocery store staff bonuses to the food-service crisis to gardening and cooking at home to panic buying.

Welcome to UnSpun - The Orca's current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics, and much more.

Jody Vance: Across Canada, Fairs are hurting – but only the PNE has been left in the cold. The reason why is more frustrating than the milk ring toss.

A big shift in Victoria, an out-of-character clawback, and COVID Christmas blues.

First in line must be those with the greatest risk, which we can assess based on pandemic morbidity and mortality statistics.

Ada Slivinski: Instead of being shrouded in mystery, buying two run-down hotels should have been an opportunity to talk about why people felt safer on the street.