Opinion

Editor: It has been great to have Front Street closed in the weekends. I take the opportunity to ride my bike in the neighborhood and each time. The feeling of freedom fills me with hope that this battle with COVID 19 can be won.

Joggers - also known as “runners” or “people in far better shape than me” – have been the subject of many letters to the editor and messages to me.

Editor: We thought some time ago that the work done on the SkyTrain just east of the 22nd Street station would put an end to the screeching, endless racket, but we were wrong.

Few letters to the editor are able to make my heart soar. Thirty years in journalism will make a person jaded like that.

This isn’t what I thought my daughter’s Grade 3 year would look like. I thought this might be the year she would join the choir, or maybe even the track club.

Conflict of interest revelations surrounding the selection of WE Charity to administer the Canada Student Service Grant have dominated media coverage and led to investigations by parliamentary committees and the federal ethics commissioner.

It has been clear for some time that COVID-related death rates are shockingly high in long-term care facilities.

A commentary by a lawyer and consultant who works, teaches and publishes in the areas of conflict resolution, constitutional law, law and religion, and public law. Over the past six weeks, my father and my son passed away.

Other insurance companies in Canada are offering rebates to help customers through the pandemic, so why can’t ICBC do the same? Don’t be ridiculous. It was already flat broke before COVID-19 hit. Now it’s even further in the red.

There is a growing and alarming complacency about COVID-19 in communities across Canada, including B.C. Our self-congratulations and comparisons to the worst-case scenarios unfolding in the U.S.