Opinion

If you’re an SFU student, you know the feeling. You just got off the train at Production Way - University Station. You can see the 145 bus loading up with students ready to tackle their 8:30 classes.

My mom will probably flog me for saying this, but she hates driving at night. Like, hates it with a passion.

Editor: I am a neat and tidy person. I love my planet, but I get really sad when I see litter, cigarette butts, old shoes, dog droppings, big fat noogies, car parts and any item strewn on the grass or sidewalks.

Editor: I attended the Pattullo Bridge announcement (on Monday). Not a single person from Burnaby. No mayor or councillors. The provincial staff don’t understand how important that bridge is for Burnaby.

Honking has become an epidemic on Lower Mainland roads — adding more stress to driving in traffic

Celebrity couple’s retreat from royal duties to Canada’s West Coast doesn’t mean we should forget our manners

This column is about something I call “zombie” houses – unoccupied single-detached houses that have been left to rot by absentee landlords. These homes are a visual blight on our communities, as well as a safety hazard.

Wandering the aisles of Michaels on a Friday night, I pick up a pink and red box of pre-made Valentine’s Day cards and ask my youngest child, “How about these ones?” She shrugs her shoulders and skips off.

When the B.C. legislature resumes sitting this week, there is a minor alignment of the assembly’s seating plan. This carries with it potentially major implications.

Editor: The estimated cost of completing the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion has ballooned from an initial estimate of $7.4 billion, then to $9.3 billion, and now to $12.6 billion as announced by president and CEO Ian Anderson on Feb. 7, 2020.