Opinion

She didn’t play hide and seek with reporters or their questions. She didn’t take the opportunity to go after her opponents. She wasn’t defensive or dismissive.

It’s a marriage of necessity, there’s no question about it. But even arranged marriages can often weather storms – even political storms – when the future of both parties is at risk. As the B.C. NDP and B.C.

Dear Editor: Re: City owed it to citizens to fight pipeline, Our View, Burnaby NOW , May 26. Your editors and the Burnaby Board of Trade have taken a responsible position opposing the TMX project.

Dear Editor: Re: We are simply gluttons for fresh water, Our View, Burnaby NOW , May 24. I would like to present my view. I have noted that over the years our consumption of fresh water per capita has steadily decreased.

It’s been noted by many that this past election was the closest one in British Columbian history, yet in some ways it was anything but close. Sure, the overall popular vote was a virtual tie, as just 1,568 votes separated the B.C.

There will be some citizens of Burnaby who may balk at the news that the city has spent at least $154,000 of taxpayer money fighting the proposed Trans Mountain expansion project. But we’re not among them.

It was a pretty safe bet going into election night that, regardless of how the vote broke, there were four words from Premier Christy Clark’s 2013 victory speech that would be left unsaid this year: “Well, that was easy.

The jokes were flowing, pardon the pun, last week when the City of Burnaby kicked off its Stage 1 water restrictions. No wonder.

Dear Editor: Much has been made of “big money in politics,”condemning corporate donations to political parties and union donations in the same breath, as though they were in any way comparable. Much ado about nothing. Let’s look at some numbers.

It’s going to be fascinating and, at times, amusing, to watch how this province’s two major political parties deal with the upstart new kid on the block: the B.C. Green Party.