Opinion

NOW reader Diane Smithers emailed this photo in from Saturday’s Vancouver rally for the NDP. There’s a lot going on in it. You can see the prime location that Burnaby MLAs Janet Routledge and Katrina Chen were given behind party leader Jagmeet Singh.

The FortisBC project that has been upgrading the company’s aging gas lines is mercifully coming to an end – at least in Burnaby. It has been a long slog for drivers in North Burnaby.

I have seen many things around the B.C. legislature during the 30 plus years I’ve been stationed there covering B.C. politics, but I’ve never been partly responsible for kicking a cabinet committee out of the historic cabinet chamber.

Editor: Is this election going south? As we head to the polls, are we becoming more like our southern counterparts? America first at all costs? Andrew Scheer's promise to cut foreign aid by 25% makes me nervous.

When you are quitting your job, you always give notice. Right? Because not giving notice ruins your chance of using the old boss as a reference.

Dear Prime Minister: As I write this, I have no idea who I am addressing – or whether, indeed, the issue of who will be Canada’s next prime minister will even be settled by the time we all go to sleep on Monday night.

Using Cacao Barry chocolate, Elena Krasnova has crafted some wicked treats at Burnaby’s Mon Paris Pâtisserie for Halloween.

My love affair with semi-unusual flavours goes back to when I was a child.

Plant-based food – it’s something that came onto my radar at the start of 2019 after my doctor recommended some documentaries on the growing food movement.

I won’t for a minute ask readers to have any sympathy for what I go through as a journalist on a daily basis.