Opinion

Last week the Globe and Mail did several stories on Premier Christy Clark and her private fundraising dinners. These are the events where folks pay $10,000 or more to break bread and get up close and personal with our premier.

The B.C. NDP always a faces a tough, uphill struggle to get elected to government in this province, and some moves by the federal wing of the NDP this past weekend may make that hill even steeper.

Dear Editor Re: free recreation passes for refugees. “There is no cost to taxpayers.” This is not the principle of the free passes.

Dear Editor Re: Our View – Let’s stop this race to the bottom, Our View Burnaby NOW , April 6. Woohoo! Hooray! And thank you! It is good to see an opinion from a company recognizing how disgraceful the minimum wage in B.C.

Dear Editor Burnaby’s city council, just who are they working for? I moved to Burnaby in 2008, and since moving here I voted for Derek Corrigan and his team in the last two municipal elections, but I no longer have confidence in either him, or his co

According to the Canadian Cancer Society, smoking causes about 85 per cent of lung cancer cases Canada and smokers shorten their lives by eight to 10 years on average.

My View

B.C. has now earned the dubious distinction of having the lowest minimum wage in the country.That happened Friday, after New Brunswick – previously the province with the lowest hourly wage – raised its minimum wage to $10.65, surpassing B.C.

No doubt the B.C.

Dear Editor Re: Don’t make taxpayers cover the cost for refugee leisure passes, Letters to the editor, April 1. Just to clarify, there is no actual out of pocket cost to the taxpayer of providing leisure passes to the refugees.