Opinion

Dear Editor: We see year after year, with the continued development in Burnaby, the decline in affordable housing for low-income families. Homelessness continues to be an issue in Burnaby that seems to have no long-term solution.

Dear Editor: It was a shocking and shameful spectacle. Justin Trudeau abasing himself singing the (unearned) praises of Conservative-elected MP Eve Adams as he welcomed her to the Liberal caucus.

Are you prepared to pay a regional sales tax on top of the GST and PST? That's essentially the question Metro Vancouverites will answer in a March referendum.

The transit plebiscite campaign has now officially begun in earnest, and already one can see parallels to the one about the HST a couple of years back. And that is good news for the No side, and bad news for the Yes side.

Dear Editor: Announcements last week by Premier Christy Clark came as welcome news for mineral explorers in B.C.

Dear Editor: I just have to say something about the proposed tax hike for homeowners in Burnaby. The time has come for city council to start to show some self-restraint for a change.

When the teachers' strike divided the province last summer, everyone in B.C. supported the government - financially, if not philosophically.

Have you been rejected by the Federal Court of Appeal lately? Don't worry, you're not alone.

Here's a letter to the editor we received from Alan Dutton, one of the Burnaby Mountain Five named in Kinder Morgan's civil suit, which the company has now dropped .

A reader emailed me with some concerns that Kinder Morgan's civil suit isn't really over, and as far as legal technicalities go, she's right.