Opinion

When I touched a hot iron with my finger at the age of five, my mom didn’t have much (any?) sympathy. “I told you once before my iron might be hot so you should never touch it, but you didn’t listen,” she said as I wiped away the tears.

What would you do with $55 million? Yeah, I know, there’s a joke in there about if you could actually afford a house in Vancouver, but it’s hard to laugh in the middle of a housing crisis.

In this crowded beer market, brewers are under pressure to grab your attention. Ben Coli, owner and head brewery of Dageraad Brewery in Burnaby, explains why a brewery’s year-round staples are often their best work.

I wrote last month about my campaign to raise $1,000 (or more) to get “bailed out” as part of the Burnaby RCMP’s Jail and Bail event on May 3. And so far, I’m pretty disappointed in how much money has been raised for Cops for Cancer.

Back in the 1980s in B.C., a teenager only needed to turn 16 and pass written and road tests in order to get their driver’s licence.

Editor: Looking for action, no apologies. I am curious about the training that store personnel receive for dealing with customers who are blind or low vision.

It really seemed like Justin Trudeau’s political future was in peril this time. This scandal was too massive. The implications were too damaging for too many Canadians. No politician – no matter how wily or photogenic – could avoid the repercussions.

The NOW published a story yesterday (Tuesday) about a Burnaby family filing a complaint against RCMP officers who ordered them out of their own house with guns drawn, despite the family having been the ones who called police in the first place.

New Democrats in opposition were strident critics of the lack of guarantees for B.C. workers in the deal the B.C. Liberal government was trying to put together for a liquefied-natural-gas plant.

A series of accidents and the FortisBC project have combined for a traffic nightmare in North Burnaby this morning. Traffic through several North Burnaby side streets are a mess as drivers try to avoid Highway 1 westbound – which is also a mess.