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Opinion: Yo, mega-truckers, stay on the Burnaby-New West truck route where you belong

Opinion: Yo, mega-truckers, stay on the Burnaby-New West truck route where you belong

Look, I appreciate truck drivers and the role they play in society. They get the stuff we want to the places where they can be sold. I know truckers and their vehicles are important.
OPINION: A Sḵwx̱wú7mesh mosquito legend

OPINION: A Sḵwx̱wú7mesh mosquito legend

Ever wonder how mosquitoes were created? Why is it, that they feast on blood? This Sḵwx̱wú7mesh legend is not known by many and each storyteller has their way of telling it. During mystical times, giants roamed the world.
Adrian Raeside cartoon: Voting early

Adrian Raeside cartoon: Voting early

Opinion: Anti-maskers are a disgrace to political protest

Opinion: Anti-maskers are a disgrace to political protest

In light of other important political protests going on, it is frustrating to see the prospect of wearing a mask become a point of contention. Wearing masks are essential in the fight against COVID-19.
Opinion: Fiscal control 'out the window' this B.C. election

Opinion: Fiscal control 'out the window' this B.C. election

I guess it should come as no surprise that, in an election campaign the likes of which we have never seen before, that we are also witnessing our political leaders making spending and taxation promises the kind of which we have not seen previously ei
Monique Keiran: Spanish Flu pushed Thanksgiving back to December

Monique Keiran: Spanish Flu pushed Thanksgiving back to December

When Prime Minister Trudeau suggested recently that travelling and gathering for Thanksgiving might be off book this year, some historians might have experienced déjà vu. Trudeau warned in a national televised address Sept.
Les Leyne: NDP abandon collaboration, embrace it's us vs. them

Les Leyne: NDP abandon collaboration, embrace it's us vs. them

B.C. New Democrats have been using their own coded political language for a while, but now they’ve put it in a pamphlet for internal use during the election campaign. It’s called the B.C.
Les Leyne: Despite B.C.'s huge debt, parties promise to give cash to voters

Les Leyne: Despite B.C.'s huge debt, parties promise to give cash to voters

You’d think a province that just plunged billions into debt due to a sudden global health emergency would be a little strapped for cash at the moment. But the parties vying to run B.C. are still promising vast sums of money to individual voters.
Opinion: BCCDC's Halloween guidelines are out. Will grownups listen?

Opinion: BCCDC's Halloween guidelines are out. Will grownups listen?

Well, Halloween is here soon - we just have to survive the B.C. election first. And while the U.S. election campaign has been scary enough, others will want to add a little more fear into their lives.
Opinion: Premier Horgan comes out as B.C.’s boldest capitalist in 2020

Opinion: Premier Horgan comes out as B.C.’s boldest capitalist in 2020

The BC Liberal party sent out a comical press release this weekend, demanding that John Horgan and the NDP answer questions around their Surrey-White Rock candidate’s views.