Opinion

*BREAKING: The NEB has given its endorsement of Trans Mountain. Read our story here.

“There are no new tax measures that increase provincial government revenues in Budget 2019,” was the reassuring line in the document. Because they’re too busy dealing with the fallout from the last batch, was the unwritten but assumed explanation.

The BC Liberals are currently not in government, so it’s weird how the party could have had such a bad five-day stretch last week. Normally it’s the party in power that suffers political misfortunes. The party took a hit on Feb.

The BC NDP’s changes to the Local Elections Campaign Financing Act were intended to increase transparency and cut back on vested interests funding local political campaigns.

Editor: It’s time for Canada to provide its share of the Global Fund to fight HIV, Malaria, and TB, due for replenishment this year.

Editor: Re: I’m ‘disgusted’ by a parachuted candidate in Burnaby South, NOW Letters, Feb. 19 (Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet) Singh comes across as a rather decent enough fellow, but like most candidates, seems to have no really clue what he is doing.

Serious Hockey Men get their feathers ruffled by a little Duck, Duck, Goose

Editor: Re: Singh ‘disgusted’ by refugee rhetoric , NOW , Feb.

Stefania Seccia is fired up. Like, I’ve never seen her this fired up before and I used to work with her in a newsroom – a place where people are constantly fired up. But this is her son Max we’re talking about.

Editor: It is with disappointment that I find myself writing this letter. On Feb. 12, 2019, the Burnaby School District closed its doors for the first time in many years, for a snow day.