Opinion

Premier John Horgan’s gas price inquiry is a move pulled from the playbook of former NDP premier Glen Clark in the 1990s. It didn’t work then — no fault of that inquiry — and it’s an open question whether it will accomplish much now.

It’s nearly one year to the day that I posted a video of a bear family on Burnaby Mountain. Since that time, I have kept my eyes open for more bears as I go to and from my home on Burnaby Mountain because, well, bears are awesome.

Here’s a pro tip: If a lender is charging an advance fee for a loan then they are breaking the law. If you pay that fee, then you are getting scammed.

I had a recent blog post joking that lottery players now had more chances to lose with Lotto Max adding a second weekly draw on Tuesdays.

Anti-pipeline activists will be hounding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today. And they’ll be using a jumbotron to do it.

Editor: Re: McGill is Burnaby’s best library – and it’s not even close , Now & Then blog I use Cameron (library) all the time and it’s just fine. I would call it cozy.

Bubble tea is like crack to me – I just can’t get enough. That’s why it’s so funky that TransLink’s Buzzer Blog is highlighting Burnaby places to get bubble tea near SkyTrain stations.

If there’s one thing the recent report on the legislature spending scandal by former chief justice Beverley McLachlin makes clear, it’s that where rules are lax and oversight is next to non-existent, the less honourable parts of human nature will fee

As the gas prices continue to soar, I have found myself taking transit more often. But I don’t necessarily like it.

Editor: On June 6, 1944, I arrived by boat on Juno Beach in Normandy, France, with the Canadian Scottish Regiment. My role was in the mortar platoon. On June 17, I was based in a barn, anticipating an attack that never came.