Opinion

After touring the massive Site C dam project last week, I could not help but come away with the impression that no matter how controversial this project is and no matter what kind of opposition there is to it, there is little chance of stopping its c

Dear Editor: Vimy Ridge was in the news continuously for many days, remembering the 3,600 Canadian soldiers who were killed in three days in a battle on that ridge in France during the First World War, 100 years ago.

Another week, another weak attempt by the Lower Mainland mayors to pin all the region’s problems on the provincial government. Fastballs of problems are flung fast and furious by the city politicians: homelessness, property taxes, TransLink.

It’s completely understandable. If you’re a first-time candidate invited to an all-candidates meeting sponsored by a very active and vocal advocacy group, you might think twice about going.

Dear Editor: Some of the easiest and cheapest materials to properly recycle (as in reuse) are paper products, and the advantage is that it reduces the number of trees needed to be cut down for new pulp.

Dear Editor: Burnaby-Lougheed Liberal candidate Steve Darling seems to be just too busy these days to show up at an all-candidates meeting. Of course if he’s too busy to see me, a voter, then I’ll be far too busy to vote for him on election day.

To almost everyone’s relief, the official election campaign is underway. We’ll forgive you if it’s already felt like a long, unofficial trek to the polls.

Dear Editor: In my opinion the B.C. NDP is taking the voters of Burnaby-Lougheed for granted. The evidence for this is anecdotal, but … Jane Shin was our MLA for the last four years. By all accounts Ms.

F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote: “Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.” It's the missed opportunities over the 2012 Health Ministry firings that will forever haunt the B.C. government.

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