Opinion

One out of five kids are affected by bullying and while there is an increased effort to put an end to bullying around the world, Canada ranks at a dismal 27th out of 35 countries on measures of bullying and victimization, according to a recent World

As I began making my through B.C. government budget documents last week, a deputy minister came up to me and said he had given the budget a unique name: the “caseload budget.

The big-but-not-actually-funny joke about the Metro Vancouver housing crisis is that winning a million dollars isn’t what it used to be.

Editor: I’d love it if you could write an opinion or article on the serious garbage issue around Byrne Creek high school and the lack of resolve the City of Burnaby and the Burnaby School District is putting into it.

In 2017 you would have been lost in a large, skeptical crowd certain how the B.C. NDP would steward the economy in British Columbia. There weren’t even bets to take on it.

The call went out to Burnaby NOW readers recently as I followed up the City of Burnaby’s attempts to crack down on what I termed a “zombie house” that has been left to rot and die by its owner.

When I was growing up in North Burnaby, I couldn’t understand why some of the streets near my home were blocked to traffic. I lived near Broadway and Springer Avenue in the 1970s and ‘80s.

The expansion of the Amazing Brentwood shopping mall is moving tooooo slowly. That’s what I say every time I see something new added to the roster of food outlets coming to North Burnaby.

I must admit I didn’t really know much about shawarma until I heard about it from Iron Man. Yes, Tony Stark, at the end of Avengers jokes about going for shawarma after defeating an alien army.

I don’t normally get emotional when reading news stories. Thirty years of reading about tragedies will do that to a person.