Shades of Downton Abbey in fall of Christy Clark government

It was a nice day. The sun was out, my car was washed, the traffic not too bad and all my tasks seemed to be placed in the right pigeon holes. It was a nice day and getting nicer. The song on the car radio was a favourite, so I cranked up the volume and even sang along to the chorus.

This week: why all electoral politics is flawed, and why that鈥檚 kind of okay.

Green leader Andrew Weaver compromised to get deal with NDP

Columnist Bob Groeneveld didn鈥檛 realize the impact the Relay for Life would have on him.

In 2016, there were 30 drug overdose deaths in 91原创. That was a 200 per cent increase over the previous year, and in more than half of those deaths (53 per cent), the opioid fentanyl was detected.

In the garden that is politics, there鈥檚 still plenty of weeds.

Even without Greens鈥� support, B.C. Liberals will attempt to govern

The young lady at the checkout counter greeted me with a cheery, 鈥淗ow鈥檚 your day going?鈥� I replied that it had been a good day so far, and observed that she was in a good mood herself.

Columnist Bob Groeneveld is in the garden tackling ivy and that got him to thinking about politics.