Opinion

Don't give up, and watch out for the eye bees

Dear editor: Re: If Up Against a Wall of Right-wing Government, Then What? April 10 opinion column by legislative reporter Keith Baldrey.

There’s a reason why the NDP cabinet had so much trouble over the past two weeks defending the discriminatory pay gap it is creating in the social-services sphere based on union membership. It’s because it is indefensible.

Pot is a hot mess. Responsible people are irresponsibly bumbling legalization while irresponsible people cannot figure how to act responsibly. The black market remains, very conservatively, three-quarters of the market.

In the office of my family practice, hidden from the view of patients, is a sign along the edge of the counter for my staff to see each day. It reads: “Treat every patient like family.

I can still remember a climbing tree - my favourite one in the city - that used to sit next to the playground on Kits Beach in Vancouver.

Local municipalities spend more than $5 million annually to clean up illegal dumping

The legislature is now in its two-week Easter recess and the break could not have come at a better time considering the oddities that characterized the session’s first half.

The issue of crime is always a political football – no matter what level of government you are looking at.

When Burnaby Mayor Mike Hurley started his housing task force this year, I was curious how many people would actually take part.