Opinion

Plant-based food – it’s something that came onto my radar at the start of 2019 after my doctor recommended some documentaries on the growing food movement.

I won’t for a minute ask readers to have any sympathy for what I go through as a journalist on a daily basis.

Who is the best prime minister? Not the best for right now – our votes on Monday should answer that uneasy question – but who is the best Canadian prime minister ever? The question had never really occurred to me until last week.

Like Seinfeld, this election is a show about nothing

The Burnaby Heights neighbourhood that I grew up in was almost exclusively Italian. Delis, markets and restaurants – all with an Italian flair – were everywhere in the 1970s.

As far as federal election news releases go, this one showed great restraint.

British Columbia will never get more than a few crumbs from the huge potential settlement being discussed in the U.S. over drug companies’ culpability for the opioid epidemic.

Editor: Re: Burnaby charging landlords $570/year for licence replacing ‘stove tax’ , NOW , Oct.

Last week, I wrote about some majestic sandhill cranes hanging out next to the flooded cranberry fields in south Burnaby. This prompted Burnaby photographer Glen Govier to send the NOW a cool video of the cranes kicking up a fuss.

Driving home from school pickup on Friday afternoon, my oldest daughter asked me who I was going to vote for in the federal election and I hesitated to respond.