Opinion

There’s a reason why the NDP cabinet had so much trouble over the past two weeks defending the discriminatory pay gap it is creating in the social-services sphere based on union membership. It’s because it is indefensible.

In the office of my family practice, hidden from the view of patients, is a sign along the edge of the counter for my staff to see each day. It reads: “Treat every patient like family.

I can still remember a climbing tree - my favourite one in the city - that used to sit next to the playground on Kits Beach in Vancouver.

Local municipalities spend more than $5 million annually to clean up illegal dumping

The legislature is now in its two-week Easter recess and the break could not have come at a better time considering the oddities that characterized the session’s first half.

A fresh wave of outrage has swept over Metro Vancouver today (Friday) as gas prices at local pumps hit another high. Some stations were charging as much as $1.68.9 per litre and people were setting their hair on fire about it.

Editor: Political columnist Keith Baldrey is quite ready to call political parties out for hypocrisy when they contradict themselves or reverse their position. But not, it seems, when it comes to fossil fuel megaprojects.

Editor: We have watched the unfolding of Jody Wilson-Raybould’s dismissal from the Liberal caucus with dismay, but with a lack of surprise. This is another case of one step forward, two steps back for a woman in leadership.

There is a lot of noise about fertilizer and plant food out there and it can be confusing. We are here to demystify the idea of “feeding your plants”. Do you need to fertilize? Some plants are like Ben, they are born hungry. Take roses for example.

B.C. MLAs are in the second week of an increasingly bitter argument about a wage differential the NDP is establishing in the social-services network.