Opinion

It comes as no surprise that our country’s premiers apparently see the pandemic as the perfect time to put the touch on the federal government when it comes to tackling the biggest consumer of tax dollars within all their own budgets.

I understand Richmond attorney Rebeka Breder is deeply disturbed by hunting and she offered her complaints in a Burnaby Now op-ed column that ran on14 September 2020. ( https://www.burnabynow.

Editor: Re: Six-storey project too big for our New West street , Record Letters I wanted to write a note of support for the proposed addition of affordable multi-family housing in the Glenbrooke North neighbourhood and to offer a different point of v

My email inbox here at the newspaper is often a cesspool of hatred, with a light sprinkling of death threats. That’s OK. I can take the slings and arrows of outrageous buffoons (credit to Shakespeare for that one).

It’s smoky out there. Need-headlights-at-4-p.m. smoky. Not as bad as newsrooms in 1982, mind you, but still as gloomy as a travel agent. We can see one thing clearly, though: It looks like an election is coming. Or maybe that’s elections, plural.

It took six months for the NDP government to release the economic recovery part of B.C.’s ongoing COVID-19 response. That’s a long time, given that the government committed about $5 billion in no time flat on various emergency relief measures.

Editor: Re: New Westminster considers affordable housing project in Glenbrook North , Record News This proposed high-density development is so far off the mark that it cannot be taken seriously unless, of course, it has an ulterior motive.

At this point, I’m starting to get a little worried about frogs, boils, and the health of my first-born son. Because it seems pretty obvious what is going on right now in this part of the world.

Editor: The massive fire on the New Westminster waterfront once again highlights the vulnerabilities of communities reliant on stand-alone small fire services.

An open letter to B.C.'s Lieutenant Governor