Opinion

Editor: I have to say that I am a little bit shocked regarding the backlash against the development of housing for homeless women in Queensborough. There is no threat providing disadvantaged women (or anyone) with housing.

Editor: (The proposed modular housing project in Queensborough) is the first of its kind, to take a small number of homeless women and put them in the centre of the village, with parks, schools, a community centre and transit.

There is a reason we can’t have nice things. It’s because people are too selfish, or perhaps too dumb, to understand how to deal with nice things that come our way.

During a recent visit to a family restaurant, as I stood in line waiting to place my order, a dad rushed up to the counter holding a cherub-faced child and hurriedly asked for the key to the men’s room.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has done two things that may transform his image from a soft vacillator to a tough politico prepared to make the bold calls.

How much is a parking spot worth to you? If you trying to find a spot in downtown New Westminster, it’s probably worth a lot to find one that’s empty. But is it worth $40,000? Of course not.

I’ve had it. No, really, I’m fed up. If I have to listen to another ill-informed, bigoted view of people who are homeless my head is going to explode.

Just when I thought I had escaped the inevitable, it happened.

Insanity. That’s the only word that comes to mind when we think about the federal Liberals buying the entire Trans Mountain pipeline project. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pledged to sink $4.

As befits a guy who has the most money to spend in government, Health Minister Adrian Dix has been busy. Every week seems to produce a major announcement.