Opinion

Dear Editor An open letter to the Honourable Michael de Jong, B.C. Minister of Finance Dear Minister de Jong: Having received my assessment notice shortly before you announced the new threshold for the provincial homeowner grant being set at $1.

In 2016, British Columbians faced the public health emergency that is the overdose crisis. As of Nov. 30, 755 people in our province died this year due to an overdose – 259 of those deaths occurring in the Fraser Health region.

Dear Editor Who would have guessed that a B.C. passenger ferry (Queen of the North) would go down at the entrance to Douglas Channel, due to human error.

Dear Editor The bureaucratic cowboys at B.C. Assessment have set the stage for civic and provincial authorities to dip deeper into the not-too-deep pockets of homeowners, especially seniors . While the B.C.

As news goes, it was hardly surprising. Premier Christy Clark’s announcement that the province has issued an environmental assessment certificate for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project was a bit of a yawner.

It was an easy prediction. We knew that Christy Clark was going to raise the homeowner’s grant ceiling – the only question was by how much.

Dear Editor: Friends and customers, thank you for your patience and support as we work toward being fully operational again.

Coming soon to a vacant school field near you: portables, lots and lots of portables. While much attention has been paid to the $50 million that will hire more than 1,000 teachers as a result of the interim agreement between the B.C.

Who can blame them? Anyone who has felt that neck-wrenching, body-twisting pull of gravity as their feet shoot out from under them on an icy sidewalk knows the stages of ice-rage. First comes the self-blame. I should have seen that icy patch.

Any day above ground is a good day for an addict. Harsh but true. Where there is life, there is hope.