Opinion

Just what does Mother Nature have to do to make us all wake up and smell the coffee packets we’ve tucked into our emergency preparedness kits? All week long we’ve been seeing headlines about the impending series of fall storms.

Dear Editor, As we approach the end of the first year of government under Trudeau the Second, popular opinion suggests the “honeymoon is over.

Dear Editor, On behalf of the 16 local Christmas Bureaus across the Metro Vancouver area we work with, the Lower Mainland Christmas Bureau would like to thank the mayor and council, city engineering department and the Burnaby RCMP detachment for the

It’s been a year since the longest federal election campaign in modern Canadian history, and many campaign promises are slowly taking shape.

We have to wonder if Mayor Derek Corrigan isn’t just keeping us all guessing about his future plans as part of a larger political game plan.

It’s a little like reading tea leaves. Tea leaves in oil. Last week the federal government gave its stamp of approval to a $36 billion LNG plant on Lelu Island near Prince Rupert.

Dear Editor The biggest concern of Canadians with regard to exporting Alberta oil through the proposed Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project is about the Canadian economy and jobs for Alberta, without any consideration about the dam

Dear Editor Let’s take a minute to consider how many times, in recent history, the federal government has permitted Canada Post’s executive team to defer Canada Post’s obligations to the employee’s pension fund, and it becomes obvious why the pension

Dear Editor Kudos to the Burnaby Board of Trade for talking face-to-face with its members to find out their issues to better represent their needs. This is a move that Burnaby mayor and councillors might try sometime.

The recent gathering of provincial politicians - mostly municipal, but also provincial and some federal - in the capital provided ample evidence of the Great Divide that is deepening in this province.