Opinion

If you haven’t heard the name Randy Rinaldo yet this week, you’re clearly not active on social media.

So, is there anyone in B.C. who hasn’t heard about Randy Rinaldo this morning? “Liberals name candidate for Burnaby-Lougheed” would have been a pretty benign headline in any other circumstances.

Dear Editor A visit to an art gallery can be inspiring, surprising, educational, sometimes puzzling or infuriating, seldom boring.

Ethics versus the economy.

Dear Editor Those who argue that Christy Clark’s $195,000 salary is inadequate make a reasonable point.

Dear Editor When our neighbours in Alberta are dealing with a horrific forest fire, the loss of their homes, their jobs and possibly the entire town of Fort McMurray, the government of B.C. has done absolutely nothing to help.

Dear Editor So rural B.C. gets a bigger homeowner grant because they drive farther. So should I! In Burnaby, I may not drive as far, but I pay a hellova lot more for my gas.

Dear Editor Despite the fact the average cost of a home in Metro Vancouver is rapidly rising (now at around $1.8 million), the Christy Clark government has arbitrarily set the homeowner grant threshold at $1.2 million.

I’m not sure what I’ll end up regretting when I’m on my death bed, but kissing Jeff Bennett in Grade 6 will likely rank in the top 10. It’s not that he was such a bad guy (as far as Grade 6 guys go) but he did have one tiny flaw. He had a cold sore.

The beginning of this week marked the deadline for most Canadians to file their taxes. But there’s a segment of the population unlikely to have been handing over the last shoebox full of receipts or sweating over a calculator.