Opinion

"Love is a friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowance for human weakness.

Once in a while someone in the tech world will realize this column exists and offer to send me something to review. Most recently that was California-based Iolo Technologies, which makes a program called System Mechanic.

It was already looking likely that President Bashar al-Assad's regime would survive — it has had the upper hand militarily in the Syrian civil war for at least six months now — but the events of the past two weeks have made it virtually c

Is UBCM convention money well spent? I'm writing to express my utter disbelief and disappointment with the mayor's decision to spend $15,000 worth of taxpayers' money to go to the Union of British Columbia Municipalities convention in Vancouver ( Piq

Canada Post has finally started to mail cheques to the women it had paid less for doing the same work as their male colleagues between 1982 and 2002. The complaint of unequal pay was lodged in 1983 — yes, 1983.

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you can't go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad." - C.S.

At the recent Apple launch event, the company showed off two new smartphones — the iPhone 5S, which is an update to the iPhone 5, and the iPhone 5C, which I can't figure out.

Last May, with considerable trepidation, I wrote an article about what seemed to be extraordinarily high rates of rape in Africa.

"A rising tide lifts all boats." - John F.

Re-visit 'daft' liquor laws Not sure if the new owners have "got" to Max but what a lot of sense ( Pique , "Maxed out," Sept. 5).