Opinion

Calling 911 is something nobody wants to have to do. Unless the fast food restaurant you’re jonesing for isn’t open 24 hours a day as advertised. Then you definitely have no issue calling 911. Right? Um, no. You don’t call for that.

Tears streaked my cheeks as I sat hunched over in the front seat of my SUV, holding a funnel-shaped milk sucker to my chest and manually pumping while trying not to get seen by passersby.

The NDP and B.C. Greens deserve full credit for taking such a kick in the teeth from voters with good grace.

We get a lot of letters to the editor sent to us here at the New Westminster Record. They come mostly by email, although a few arrive by mail or are dropped off here at the office. Most are thoughtful missives on the news of the day.

Editor: Re: Make it easier for landlords to evict tenants to ease rental crisis , Record letters, Dec. 13 I am a building manager of over 20 years and my wife and I have lived in downtown New West for the past seven.

The big-tent parties can heave a sigh of relief, while the B.C. Green Party can only look on despairingly as its best chance at escaping the political margins has vanished.

As if there weren’t enough gambling options in this province, BC Lottery Corporation wants you to place bets on babies being born. BCLC just sent out a news release saying that B.C.

The B.C. government’s Rental Housing Task Force took the first important steps last week to finally make substantial changes to the Rental Tenancy Act.

The fact that modernization of tenancy law has taken so long is scary, considering how different the rental market is from 16 years ago

Christmas is just around the corner, and there’s a new boss in town.