Opinion

We support the work of community hatcheries, but building larger and more salmon hatcheries shouldn't be the goal of any wild salmon plan

Last week I stumbled across a most disgusting public toilet in downtown Vancouver. It wasn’t designed as a public toilet. Rather, it was a urine-soaked stairwell in the City of Vancouver-owned Gastown Parkade.

There was a time when the words “Spring Break” conjured up images of college kids in a drunken stupor, partying it up in Daytona Beach, flashing their boobs and jostling their junk in hopes of making a cameo on MTV’s live broadcast of the festivities

It looks like the inmates have reclaimed control of the asylum. That’s one takeaway from the collective decision by B.C.’s MLAs to hire an esteemed former chief justice to examine allegations against the legislature’s clerk and Sgt.-at-Arms.

Editor: Gosh, what was all the fuss about? Listening to BC Liberal (and even a Green) MLAs, I anticipated giving up an evening to complete the exemption form for the new Speculation and Vacancy Tax.

Editor: Every time I'm asked to contribute more towards the expense of a growing community, I immediately wonder why I rarely hear mention of the developers’ share of this expense and the topic of better deals being negotiated with developers to also

I once wrote an entire chapter in a long-forgotten book about Maple Ridge on what it was like to see the town while circling it in an airplane.

“We are building too much parking along with our housing,” New Westminster Coun. Patrick Johnstone. Read that quote and let it sink in a moment.

There’s something inherently weird about the former chief justice of Canada deciding to investigate an expense-account scandal in the B.C. legislature. Not disturbingly, negatively weird. More like crazy, fun weird.

Editor: This past weekend I had the pleasure of watching students from two Burnaby schools - Alpha Secondary and Burnaby North - participate in the BC Provincial Debate finals in Victoria.