Opinion

I usually feel a personal connection to people who win lottery jackpots. I cheer for them and feel envious of them at the same time.

Sitting hunched over my laptop at six in the morning, I hear the floor creak in the kitchen and I know that my son is up.

Who is Justin Trudeau? Even more important: What is Justin Trudeau? The feminist who loses his two senior women from cabinet over questions of integrity. The environmentalist who buys a pipeline.

It was a rotten weekend for lottery ticket holders across Canada. No. Jackpots. Won. No winning ticket was sold for the $7 million jackpot in Saturday night's Lotto 649 draw.

The Harry Jerome Classic track and field meet was held Thursday in Burnaby at Swangard Stadium. If you don’t know anything about Harry Jerome, he was a legendary sprinter who represented Canada at three Olympics, winning bronze in 1964.

Pollster Angus Reid came out with the results of its latest survey completed in the wake of Tuesday’s re-approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

When crisis looms, our leaders act. With polls detecting a potentially irreversible drop in the Liberals’ popularity and an election fast approaching, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet again approved the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

There was a day back in the early 1980s when I made the ill-fated decision to cut through my old elementary school – Parkcrest – on the way home from Burnaby North Secondary.

While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau understandably took the lead in announcing his government was re-approving the Trans Mountain pipeline, some people who are key to getting the project over the finish line were not even in the room.

I love pho. Let me make that clear. A warm seafood pho on a cold day is usually a solution to whatever petty problem is bugging me. So, sure, it’s weird that for my first “Bite. Me.