Opinion

A few days ago, the hallway outside my legislature office was overrun with a phalanx of fully armed police officers, busy training legislature staff in a nearby room on the finer points of security.

Dear Editor Last Thursday’s $740 million photo-op with Justin Trudeau was nothing more than flim flam to get the regional taxpayer to ante up their portion for the very poorly thought out mayors’ grossly expensive 10-year plan, which will benefit dev

Dear Editor Re: He’s no joke for the U.S. or Canada, Burnaby NOW, June 8.

It’s not perfect, but it’s a start. We speak, of course, of the City of Burnaby’s request for proposals to build non-market housing on two city-owned properties. As detailed in our story on page 10, the city has two properties – one at 7898 18th Ave.

Donald Trump may be the best thing for America. No, I haven’t gone crazy. For the last year, the billionaire candidate has turned U.S.

Last week Premier Christy Clark, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson were cheek to jowl posing for photos at the big multimillion-dollar transit funding announcement in Burnaby.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau flew into town late last week and began to solve one pressing issue facing Metro Vancouver and then found himself smack in the middle of another one where a solution may prove to be more elusive.

Dear Editor It was with a sigh of relief that we read that Burnaby city councillors and other city staff (some 700 of them) earned the modest sum of $70,000 per annum (before considering various write-offs and the mystical/mythical “returning allowan

If you ask a woman if she has ever been sexually assaulted, or felt she was in danger of being sexually assaulted, chances are very high that she will say yes. That is, of course, if she trusts you to actually listen and not judge.

Dear Editor The housing pandemic is affecting us all, in every corner of urban B.C., but in New Corriganville (formerly Burnaby), redevelopment is at a pace that will never be exceeded.