Opinion

Dear Editor Mayor Corrigan and council are absolutely responsible for the development in Metrotown area. The housing buck gets passed from one level of government to the other. Result: nothing gets done re: available housing for everyone.

Dear Editor I think it's terrible that some apartment buildings are being torn down and leaving people displaced with nowhere to go. Some of these people are on fixed incomes and can only afford so much. Myself, I live in a condo in Burnaby.

“Thank heavens I live in Canada.” We’re hearing that refrain more and more often as citizens of our fair nation look at the goings-on south of the border. Every time someone shares a story on social media about the shooting of a black man in the U.S.

Dear Editor Re: “Time to stop helping the fossil fuel economy,” Letters, Burnaby NOW, July 8. Charles Leduc’s letter “Time to stop helping the fossil fuel economy” is in error and illogical. Firstly, about 70 per cent of B.C.

Dear Editor Re: “It’s home and I don’t want to leave,” Burnaby NOW, July 8. I really enjoyed your newspaper article about Professor David Newman from SFU. Dr. Newman is a very devoted instructor and he is passionate about the subjects he teaches.

Dear Editor Re: “It’s home and I don’t want to leave,” Burnaby NOW, July 8. I believe that this situation certainly deserves media attention.

There are serious problems with B.C. Finance Minister Mike de Jong’s efforts to disprove the foreign ownership myth last week – after just three weeks of studying the problem after changes to the property transfer tax form.

The housing crisis in Metro Vancouver is deepening to the point where the B.C. government is likely doing a re-think of its strategy in dealing with it.

Dear Editor Considering the comments attributed to Mayor Derek Corrigan, it seems he is actually jealous of the power First Nations people wield over lands they have never ceded to Canada, under treaties signed long before Canada was even a nation, a

Dear Editor I was present last Thursday night at the Metrotown planning meeting. A councillor should have been present to face the frustration and fear these demovicted Burnaby residents have and continue to endure.