Opinion

Editor: Re: Burnaby transit riders ignoring mask request in large numbers , NOW opinion I enjoyed your article about riders ignoring TransLink’s requests to wear masks. I agree that this is the case.

Keith is a Burnaby resident with two young children who get a kick out of going to grab the daily mail from the box outside his home. On Monday, he’s glad his children weren’t home to do it.

When a Peaked Pies customer gets up to the front to order a pie, co-owner Kerri Jones asks them the same simple question. “Do you want that peaked?” Getting it “peaked” means having mashed potato, mushy green peas and gravy heaped on.

“You never want to let a serious crisis go to waste.” That’s what Rahm Emanuel, chief of staff to then-incoming U.S. President Barack Obama, once said during the 2008 recession. A crisis allows an opportunity to do things not thought possible before.

Canada needs a wealth tax on the super-rich to rein in extreme inequality and contribute to crucial public investments in the wake of COVID-19.

As dispiriting as it may sound, have you ever considered admitting that systemic racism may never be eliminated and then ask, now what? Systemic racism is not a new social problem.

The city has come through on a 2020 project for Burnaby Mountain Parkway, the road on the other side of Burnaby Mountain from where Charles Masala died in August 2019 after a jeep driver hit him while he was riding his bike on Gaglardi Way.

Will COVID-19 spoil plans to open a yummy pancake house in Burnaby? I sure hope not. Gram Café and Pancakes was announced to open at some point in 2020 at Burnaby’s Amazing Brentwood shopping centre.

With more people heading back to work as B.C. begins to slowly reopen its economy, TransLink says it is looking to grow a culture around wearing face masks on public transit.

Some people might disagree with my statement that the trail around Burnaby Lake is the city’s best. But that’s how I see it. I grew up a short bike ride away and did that trail more times than I can remember when I was a kid.