Opinion

Picture a courtroom. Imagine yourself sitting in the dock. The judge, your defence lawyer and a Crown prosecutor are in front of you. A witness is in the stand.

The mood was ebullient Monday night in Burnaby council chambers - for good reason.

Editor: Re: Laneway houses, duplex suites proposed, NOW , Nov. 28 I understand to build a laneway house could cost over $300,000.00.

BC Hydro likely doesn’t want to ruin Christmas, but it sure is doing its best to sound like the Grinch.

While it may seem as if our response to stories of animal behaviour and animal cruelty is overwrought given all the other tragedies of the world, it’s touching nonetheless

When I first took over the job of editor of the New Westminster Record, a tour of Royal Columbian Hospital was near the top of my list of things to do. In particular, I wanted to see RCH’s neonatal intensive care unit, also known as the NICU.

B.C. is getting its first-ever “cannabis professor” – which seems like a natural progression after Canada legalized pot last month. The newly created position at the University of B.C.

As of this writing, it is unclear whether or not Madonna has been eaten alive, her bones left to rot in a small, ornate pool of water in downtown Vancouver.

Editor: The most principled argument for proportional representation is the unfairness of first past the post. FPTP was designed for a two-party system, as (political columnist) Andrew Coyne incisively argues in Common Ground.

After 16 years of claiming the K-12 education system was starved for proper funding, the B.C. Teachers Federation was no doubt somewhat ecstatic to see the end of the B.C. Liberal government.