Opinion

Dear Editor: I disagree with your article regarding the real property gone bonkers (Not the kind of “pay it forward” we like," Burnaby NOW, Our View, Dec. 16). The property tax is a regressive one and like any other regressive tax is unfair.

Dear Editor: Re: Not the kind of ‘pay it forward’ we like, Burnaby NOW, Our View. Dec. 16. “Let’s take a step back and look at this realistically. Why should people sitting on $1.

Relax, everyone. B.C. is not going to lose its unique watchdog for children in government care anytime soon, if ever.

As political problems go, the Senate is one that has long confounded our elected leaders.

Dear Editor: Today’s political leaders would do well to take lessons from the ambition and responsible foresight of Bill Bennett. With only a little political effort, the incalculably positive derivative benefits to Greater Vancouver, and to B.C.

Dear Editor On behalf of the Burnaby Glens District, Girl Guides of Canada, I want to thank the Burnaby NOW and Jennifer Moreau for helping us to let people know about the Nov. 28 Holly Tea and Fair.

Audiences love a good remake, but we shouldn’t embrace The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly – otherwise known as the B.C. finance committee’s pre-budget recommendations.

The National Energy Board hearings are wrapping up for the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion. The company filed the written portion of its final argument today. Read it here. The oral argument is scheduled for Thursday in Calgary. Watch it here.

B.C. Assessment mailed out a record number of early warnings this week to property owners whose assessments have risen so much beyond the average, they want homeowners to have advance notice.

Dear Editor Burnaby will welcome 500 Syrian refugees, violently displaced from their homes and communities by war, hunger and desperation. We welcome them here.