Opinion

The website for Heather Leung – the Conservative Party of Canada candidate for Burnaby North-Seymour – has been taken down.

When I’m reviewing candidates for hire, one of the first things I do when I’m interested in bringing someone in for an interview is scour social media.

May has been a month for moving. The warmer, drier weather has awakened many of us from a sedentary slumber. Our local tracks and parks - abandoned during our rainy season (i.e.

Editor: I am a 24-year-old graduate student and when I found out the truth about the climate crisis, I cried. I cried to know that we have 10 years to cut our carbon emissions in half or we would be irreversibly on track for mass extinction.

Burnaby NOW reader and local photographer John Preissl sent in this haunting photo of a heron chick. The photo was taken of the rookery at Deer Lake. “The herons are getting close to fledge time and spreading their wings,” Preissl said.

The B.C. government has made some good strides when it comes to improving working conditions for restaurant and bar servers.

Nobody should be surprised that Attorney-General David Eby was quick to declare the B.C. government will appeal the decisive court ruling on who controls the flow of oil between provinces.

Editor: In the Burnaby NOW article by Kelvin Gawley, Kris Sims of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation is reported complaining about the recent increases of 40 cents in gas prices, and asking that gas taxes be slashed.

If you are driving out there on Burnaby’s streets, here’s a pro tip if you’re going to turn right. Before you do anything, stop and look to see if there are any people in the crosswalk. If there are, don’t turn right.

NOW reader Tristan Calvo read my blog about a Burnaby mom fighting terrible drivers on Burnaby Mountain and sent me this video of some driver insanity. And it’s a doozy. Calvo captured it with his dash cam.