Opinion

Editor: Good morning from a sunny New West. Please pass on my thanks to all concerned in the organization and running of the annual Hyack parade.

If you drive a car, things have been pretty painful for the last few weeks. Gas prices hitting $1.70 per litre and higher have made filling the tank that much harder to afford, and relief looks like it’s not coming any time soon.

People give parents who don’t vaccinate their kids a lot of grief. And deservedly so. But let’s not expend all of our scorn on parents who put the health of their children – and others – at risk. No, save a little for certain travelers.

Editor: For the past six months or more, I have been part of a committee involved to save May Day - however, I never even been to a May Day event until this year.

Premier John Horgan’s gas price inquiry is a move pulled from the playbook of former NDP premier Glen Clark in the 1990s. It didn’t work then — no fault of that inquiry — and it’s an open question whether it will accomplish much now.

Editor: What do New Westminster’s May Day and Judge Begbie controversies have in common? Historical revisionism - the now-common practice of using present day social perspectives to reinterpret the past, often leading to controversial, negative moral

Anti-pipeline activists will be hounding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today. And they’ll be using a jumbotron to do it.

If there’s one thing the recent report on the legislature spending scandal by former chief justice Beverley McLachlin makes clear, it’s that where rules are lax and oversight is next to non-existent, the less honourable parts of human nature will fee

As the gas prices continue to soar, I have found myself taking transit more often. But I don’t necessarily like it.

Editor: On June 6, 1944, I arrived by boat on Juno Beach in Normandy, France, with the Canadian Scottish Regiment. My role was in the mortar platoon. On June 17, I was based in a barn, anticipating an attack that never came.