Opinion

I’ve never been fortunate enough to meet CBC reporter Justin McElroy in person, but he’s a gem on Twitter. Check out @j_mcelroy and you can see the results of his latest bracket on the most iconic buildings in Vancouver (I’m on Team Marine Building).

Warning drivers about children returning to school is an annual tradition for journalists.

Burnaby North MLA Janet Routledge perhaps said it best this week following news that Burnaby Hospital was finally going to be transformed into a state-of-the-art health-care facility after decades of dithering by various B.C. premiers.

The wide array of different cultures represented on the Burnaby Heights restaurant scene has added one more. A French bistro at Hastings and Gilmore has recently been transformed into Café Oca – a Brazilian bistro that focuses on comfort foods.

The federal NDP took a hit this week with reports of a wave of defections in New Brunswick to the Greens.

It only takes one. Just one driver doing something annoying, thoughtful or even reckless. That one driver can shut down the entire commuting machine.

Look, I will state right from the start that I am lucky to live five minutes from work here in Burnaby. But that doesn’t mean I haven’t suffered as a car commuter for many years – so I have felt your pain.

So the B.C. Utilities Commission reports there is “a significant unexplained difference” in gas prices between Metro Vancouver and Seattle. The differential is around 13 cents per litre.

Almost four decades later, I can’t remember if I told the Canadian on the train that Terry Fox had died, or if he told me. It was 1981.

Editor: Re: Opinion: 24 Sussex a just a tax-sucking teardown , NOW , Aug. 27 Twenty-four Sussex Drive is the official residence of our country's prime minister.