Opinion

Who is the best prime minister? Not the best for right now – our votes on Monday should answer that uneasy question – but who is the best Canadian prime minister ever? The question had never really occurred to me until last week.

Like Seinfeld, this election is a show about nothing

The Burnaby Heights neighbourhood that I grew up in was almost exclusively Italian. Delis, markets and restaurants – all with an Italian flair – were everywhere in the 1970s.

As far as federal election news releases go, this one showed great restraint.

British Columbia will never get more than a few crumbs from the huge potential settlement being discussed in the U.S. over drug companies’ culpability for the opioid epidemic.

Editor: Re: Burnaby charging landlords $570/year for licence replacing ‘stove tax’ , NOW , Oct.

Last week, I wrote about some majestic sandhill cranes hanging out next to the flooded cranberry fields in south Burnaby. This prompted Burnaby photographer Glen Govier to send the NOW a cool video of the cranes kicking up a fuss.

Driving home from school pickup on Friday afternoon, my oldest daughter asked me who I was going to vote for in the federal election and I hesitated to respond.

Back in January of this year, I wrote a column saying that the Svend Robinson-Terry Beech race in Burnaby North-Seymour would be a “political slugfest for the ages.

Editor: On Friday, (Burnaby North-Seymour Liberal MP) Terry Beech sent me a postcard.