Opinion

Dear editor: Re: Contractor Calls for Empathy Following Theft of His Truck , Feb. 7 news story. A shoutout to Jim West for his empathetic response to an upsetting event (i.e. having his truck stolen and articles left behind in his truck).

Let me start by saying this about the soon-to-be-opened Rec Room – I grew up a few blocks from the old Brentwood mall and would have crawled over broken glass to have this stuff. I can’t wait until the Rec Room is open.

Finance Minister Carole James is getting good at delivering balanced operating budgets. Her third one in a row unfolded at the legislature Tuesday and the game plan is to spend just a touch ($203 million) less than the government brings in.

Editor: Re: Burnaby’s biggest SkyTrain station is a crime magnet , NOW Blogs That stop at the Metrotown Skytrain has been a crime magnet for decades, and that fact has been largely ignored by the Burnaby RCMP since the mid-90s.

Paying taxes leaves a bad taste in the mouths of most people, but there’s a new one that feels like it will be easier to swallow.

The Burnaby RCMP Crime Prevention Unit sends out a crime bulletin each month providing date about the hot spots in our city. The January 2020 edition is out and, once again, the area of Kingsway around Metrotown is by far the biggest magnet of crime.

It reads more like a press release than a budget, more like an annual report than next year’s plan.

The definition of a concoction is a “mixture of various ingredients or elements.

Tuesday morning, a group that included a handful of old white guys who looked, well, kind of like me demonstrated outside the Langford home of Premier John Horgan.

Our stories help us make sense of the world. But all stories are tidy simplifications of reality. With the endless editorials on social media, public opinion moves further from the truth.