Opinion

The NDP government has made a political calculation that adding hundreds of millions of tax dollars in costs to public infrastructure projects is a risk worth taking, if that’s what it takes to reward key supporters and to stick to ideological values

Editor: Re: FPTP system must go , NOW, letters, July 25. Iain Macanulty makes some valid points. It seems that using proportionality would help deal with many of the problems of our current system.

Editor: I was glad I’d taken my high-blood pressure pill before reading the front page story of July 18 in the NOW (Camp defiant as crackdown promised).

Editor: Re: Money shouldn’t have been spent on linear park, NOW, letters, July 25.

ACORN's Murray Martin says he welcomes the new approach, but doesn't trust Burnaby Citizens Association

The NDP is either rewarding friends by creating a Crown corporation that will act as a hiring hall for infrastructure projects or making a stand in the effort to include more apprentices, women and Indigenous people in the construction of bridges and

Our family supports the presence of Camp Cloud and their representation of the resistance to the expansion of the tank farm facility.

Ellen DeGeneres officially came out just over 20 years ago on her then-hit show Ellen . Her openness about her sexuality - a first in TV history - created a storm of controversy.

Editor: I was not in favour of the construction of Burnaby’s Willingdon Linear Park but favoured the construction of some type of low-income housing or some other public need.

Burnaby made a terrible list last week. Our city was one of 20 B.C. communities identified by the provincial government as urgently needing to improve the response to drug overdoses.