Opinion

Editor: Since our last provincial election, all three provincial parties have committed to implementing a poverty reduction plan. The people have given their mandate. We cannot allow deep poverty and the housing crisis to continue.

If your child was close to graduating high school and we told you that there was more than a 50 per cent chance that they would end up on the streets, in jail or getting addicting to drugs – you’d want to take action, right? You’d be in a panic, righ

As a biracial woman, adoptee and mother of three, I’m no stranger to social biases. So when I went for my long-awaited tattoo to celebrate an upcoming milestone birthday, I knew I’d receive mixed reactions.

Anti-pipeline activists may be doing handsprings over the high court ruling that quashed federal government approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, but they may want to wait a while before popping any champagne corks.

A story came through my Twitter feed recently about Japanese workers. Some of them are literally working themselves to death. One woman was found dead with her cellphone in her hand – she had logged 159 overtime hours in a month.

Editor: The water pools that dominate the front outside of the Bonsor Recreation Complex have not been functional since at least 2008.

Editor: Re: Boo on city for meters, NOW Opinion, Aug. 17 Completely agree with Chris Campbell’s column.

Editor: Re: Burnaby civic party names team to tackle BCA dynasty, NOW online, Aug. 25 I am surprised that the Burnaby First Coalition thinks they have a chance to take down Corrigan’s Burnaby Citizens Association (NDP) machine.

People both for and against the Trans Mountain pipeline will be on pins and needles early Thursday morning.

“When you were a kid, what did you do for fun?” Nature Valley posed this question to three generations of “real families” in a hard-hitting commercial that aired in 2015 and has worked its way back into the viral video rotation on Facebook.