Opinion

It’s time for a new conversation about building pipelines in this country – a conversation about how Canada can get full value for its oil production while at the same time addressing environmental concerns, including climate change.

Dear Editor Congratulations to the residents of Brentwood, Burnaby, B.C. Your 2016 property assessment averages well beyond 30 per cent, which, I understand, makes Brentwood the highest assessed area in the province of B.C. in 2016.

Dear Editor It is deeply disappointing that the B.C. government is only now considering gathering statistics on housing costs/sales in the province. The crisis in the Lower Mainland is hardly new – it’s not an overnight event.

It’s all about the optics. We speak, of course, of the annual report showing just how much free golf (and other recreation) Burnaby city councillors, parks commissioners and other dignitaries took part in in 2015.

Let’s be realistic here - the pipeline review process is broken. It’s not broken due to a lack of consultation, it’s broken because there is precisely too much consultation allowed.

Dear Editor Let’s be realistic here - the pipeline review process is broken. It’s not broken due to a lack of consultation, it’s broken because there is precisely too much consultation allowed.

Dear Editor The province is giving up two-thirds of its land at Cedar Place, which by all rights should be used to help meet the growing need for future affordable housing.

The decision by Shell Oil to delay going all-in on its liquefied natural gas project near Kitimat received a lot of attention last week, but an energy report that helps put that decision in context appears to have barely registered on the radar scree

We feel for Mayor Derek Corrigan, we really do. He and his Burnaby Citizens’ Association colleagues, who fill up every spot on city council and school board, have a tough row to hoe.

Last month, lobbyists gathered in Vancouver for the Future of Lobbying, a one-day conference put on by B.C.'s Office of the Registrar of Lobbyists, Simon Fraser Institute's Governance Studies and Public Affairs Association of Canada (B.C. chapter).