Opinion

My old brown anorak was practically stiff with dirt, so last week I decided to wash it, adding other dark clothes from the laundry hamper. I turned all pockets inside out and removed tissues as well as crumbled leaves and balls of fluff.

A reader followed up my blog from a few days ago about the dangerous Kensington overpass in North Burnaby.

When I moved back to my hometown of Burnaby, one of the first things I did was search for some good dim sum. I grew up with Sundays going out with the family for dim sum, but back then we always ended up at the Pink Pearl in Vancouver.

People love to bash CEOs and the millions in compensation they earn. And I’m good with that. While regular Canadians earn an average of about $52,000, each of the top 100 CEOs on the S&P/TSX Composite Index earned an average of $11.

Editor: Rather than calls for revenge and retaliation in response to the killing of Iranian military commander Soleimani, we should call for escalation of another sort entirely.

Editor: Re: Burnaby’s downtown plan flies in the face of climate action , NOW Letters I agree with Ms. Cohn that tearing down buildings and stores in the Metrotown area and then rebuilding them will have a large negative impact on our environment.

In a time when some (many?) people are pushing back with how tech companies use their data, I find it interesting that so many people are willing to give ride-hailing companies theirs.

Two things are clear based on BC Assessment's release of the 2020 property assessments. B.C. home values have dropped, especially in Metro Vancouver. BC NDP policies are the major reason why.

It's a brand new year and BC's Medical Services Plan (MSP) premiums are no more. That's great news because MSP premiums were a very unfair tax (or “regressive” as we economists like to say).

This post is dedicated to my Amabilis Singers compatriots, to our pianist Ingrid Verseveldt and above all to our director, Ramona Luengen. You inspire me always. One moment. One breath. This is the moment just before the concert begins.