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Letter: Ill-informed decisions are bad for Burnaby

Letter: Ill-informed decisions are bad for Burnaby

City councillors lacked crucial information when they initially considered plan to remove parkland, reader says.
Letter: Don't cover up Central Park pool

Letter: Don't cover up Central Park pool

In this rapidly densifying area, having a pool in which we can enjoy sunshine and the open sky is a welcome relief, reader says.
Letters: Park scheme is dead; unrestricted development lives on

Letters: Park scheme is dead; unrestricted development lives on

Now-quashed plan to put an organic waste facility in Fraser Foreshore Park was bad, but other environmental problems are real and ongoing in Burnaby, readers say.
Opinion: If you struggle with mental health or addiction, ​​I see you and I hear you

Opinion: If you struggle with mental health or addiction, ​​I see you and I hear you

'Having struggled with addiction and mental health issues since I was 17, I am well aware of the daily battles as well as the constant power that your 'demon(s)' have against you.'
Opinion: Make sure you know what you’re retiring to — a son’s story

Opinion: Make sure you know what you’re retiring to — a son’s story

A Squamish financial planner's story of loss and finding purpose.
Rob Shaw: Eby banks on electricity. Now we just have to find it

Rob Shaw: Eby banks on electricity. Now we just have to find it

Many questions remain as the premier pins the energy future on electricity ahead of other options
Opinion: How Canadians lie – and how we justify telling untruths

Opinion: How Canadians lie – and how we justify telling untruths

This is the first of three columns that explore Canadians' relationship with the truth, based on polling from Research Co. and Glacier Media
Opinion: We must fix our failure to fight online hate and harassment

Opinion: We must fix our failure to fight online hate and harassment

For seven years, Jody Vance’s world was turned upside down, inside out, scrambled, stalked, shattered and scarred.
Rob Shaw: B.C. has 11 days left to spend all of its unprecedented surplus. It likely can't

Rob Shaw: B.C. has 11 days left to spend all of its unprecedented surplus. It likely can't

The B.C. government has embarked on an unprecedented spending spree over the past four months, shovelling billions of dollars of an unexpectedly large budget surplus out the door to community groups, transit organizations and municipalities.
Keith Baldrey: Trudeau holds strategic edge over Poilievre in poll

Keith Baldrey: Trudeau holds strategic edge over Poilievre in poll

Conservative Leader “lags in likeability, while his party lags in must-win areas,” Angus Reid notes in its analysis.