Opinion

Some may find it hard to believe that something as seemingly innocuous as a photo on a cellphone, a tweet or a comment on Facebook can amount to much of anything.

After half a generation of seemingly being suspended on the right, the pendulum of B.C.’s budgeting swung left this week.

Dear Editor: I’m writing in support of last week’s NDP budget. I liked it because of the priority on making life a bit easier for people, particularly with the proposed spending on child care and housing.

The NDP’s first budget in 18 years included a 30-point action plan to make housing more affordable, but the budget document itself seems to indicate even the government does not expect much movement on housing prices any time soon.

Dear Editor: An open letter to MP Terry Beech: What do you say to seniors in a retirement home who are worried by the thoughts of the Kinder Morgan pipeline in their neighbourhood? How do you explain that by tripling the capacity of a tank farm they

Dear Editor: Re: They have forgotten why we elected them , My View, by Pat Tracy, Burnaby NOW, Feb. 2. Thank you for your excellent article calling to task Mayor Derek Corrigan and city council.

Is it just us, or does it feel to anyone else like the world is raging? Everywhere you turn, it seems anger is on the rise.

Dear Editor: Indigenous peoples have been socially constructed as less than human, thus giving colonial governments, general society and the media the power to treat us as if we don’t matter.

It’s no surprise to most city hall watchers that Burnaby suffers from what you might call a democratic deficit.

Dear Editor: Trying to undo the collateral damage that Mayor Corrigan foists upon Burnaby will be impossible once he has been booted from the mayor’s chair.