Opinion

Looking east across Boundary Road, it has been something to watch the buck-passing lately from Burnaby city council.

Dear Editor Mayor Corrigan and the city council have been refusing to address ACORN’s concern’s since we have asked them to protect existing affordable rental housing stock in Burnaby over two years ago.

It was announced with little fanfare by B.C. Hydro, but the federal government’s decision last week to grant two key permits for the Site C dam project may have major implications for all kinds of major resource developments across the country.

Three years ago, a mixture of fear and relief coursed through our nation when we learned the RCMP saved countless Canadians from a terrorist attack plotted by al-Qaida sympathizers.

Dear Editor With the tentative stats showing 11 per cent of Burnaby real estate in June was bought by foreign nationals, which surely is an under-reporting, it is now time for government to act.

It has been strange seeing the building of my childhood and the recent home of my grandmother occupied by protesters.

It’s taken a few years, but the B.C. Liberals have turned 180 degrees on the issue of foreign buyers influencing the housing market.

Dear Editor Re: Should city crack down on Airbnb? Burnaby NOW , Friday, July 15. Tourism Burnaby’s concern that Airbnb is a dark cloud over tourism is misplaced.

Dear Editor Mayor Derek Corrigan has been noticeably absent during the Imperial Street apartment demolition protest. I was wondering if he is planning to lie down in front of the bulldozer? Alan Litke, email

Dear Editor Re: Pipeline isn’t going to help the economy, Inbox, Burnaby NOW , Friday, July 22. Firstly, Peter Cech is correct that parts of the new pipeline in Burnaby follow a different route than the original 1953 line.