Opinion

The NDP/Green party alliance that governs B.C. wants to change the system of how we elect governments in this province, but they don’t want the voters to pick an alternative to the one we use currently.

If anything needs the “stay calm” meme to kick in right now it’s the rhetoric surrounding Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline project. Several incidents over the past few weeks show just how heated tensions are getting.

One of the favourite things parents like to do is tell other parents how to parent. It’s all part of something I call Parent Entitlement Syndrome.

We were made to move. When we don't, our health suffers. When we do, we thrive. Yet many of us have adapted to a sedentary lifestyle - losing strength, flexibility and coordination through underuse.

Dear Editor: Elections are about choosing representatives. As the eminent Swiss publicist Ernest Naville is reputed to have said in 1865, “The right of decision belongs to the majority, but the right of representation belongs to all.

Dear Editor: Re: New development benefits city , Burnaby NOW , April 27.

In the telling of your life story, you can be a victim or the hero. A key to your happiness is the locus of control. If we see life as hostile, unpredictable and beyond our control, we become anxious, demoralized and hopeless.

The B.C. NDP announced this week yet another consultation – this time regarding at-risk species.

Dear Editor: Re: Burnaby residents urged to secure garbage after problem bear euthanized, Burnaby NOW , online, April 25. It’s wrong to blame the residents when this is almost entirely the city’s problem.

As a medical student, I soon recognized that the happiest of my patients told their life stories quite differently.