Opinion

The B.C. Day of Mourning was held across the province on Saturday with 40 ceremonies marking the deaths of those who lost their lives on the job. The numbers released by WorkSafeBC to mark the occasion are sobering to look at. In B.C.

On my first day as editor of the Burnaby NOW , I looked out my office window – which, it turns out, is my first-ever actual office window after years of cave-like conditions – and noticed a familiar building.

Though the real campaign period is still months away, it’s safe to say Burnaby’s municipal election race is already underway.

Dear Editor: Re: Will there be ‘chaos’ over pipeline?, Burnaby Now , April 18.

The Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline project is an emotional issue, to say the least.

Dear Editor: Suppose all pipelines, regardless of content, were shut down . How do Premier John Horgan and Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan propose to generate energy for B.C .

Dear Editor: This is an example of the financial waste which I’ve found that’s going on in the collection of our city’s waste.

In the past decade, a whopping 86,534 impaired drivers have been taken off the road thanks to Alexa’s Team – a police initiative named in honour of Alexa Middelaer, a four-year-old killed by a drunk driver in Ladner in 2008.

Premier John Horgan was given a rousing welcome by delegates to the annual CUPE convention last week, but I have to wonder whether that’s going to be as good as it gets for the premier and his government when it comes to dealing with public sector un

Dear Editor: Re: ‘It’s part of their gamesmanship’: mayor and Three more towers proposed for Metrotown, Burnaby NOW , April 11.