Opinion

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.

Dear Editor In regards to the dog licence article in the Nov. 25 paper, I occasionally walk my mother’s dog when she goes away on vacation. As I walk my neighbourhood and at an off-leash park near my home, I speak to many people walking their dogs.

There was a lot of high-fiving and celebratory handshakes when the world's countries reached that "historic" deal last weekend to fight climate change, but the harsh truth is that the ambitious goals of the deal are going to be hard to reach.

Like most people I take photos of for the NOW , Kaye Holmes was a stranger to me.

Dear Editor Re: Monk’s dream turns into court battle, Burnaby NOW , Dec. 9. In the front page article in today’s Burnaby NOW , the article spells out how the City of Burnaby has taken the monk and his congregation to court for a “breach of bylaws.

Readers may have noticed a small story in a recent Burnaby NOW edition. The headline read: Injured jaywalker gets fine . The 51-year-old pedestrian was crossing Kingsway and Boundary Road in the evening when he was hit by a car.

Dear Editor In regards to the dog licence article in the Nov. 25 paper (Dog licence fees set to rise). I occasionally walk my mother’s dog when she goes away on vacation.

Dear Editor As a new Canadian, I have always been deeply puzzled by Mayor Corrigan’s belief that he can fight the federal government on the Kinder-Morgan pipeline expansion project.

A world split up into us and them is a dangerous world, indeed, and Canadians are not immune to this binary vision. Right now, it would be easy to lapse into intolerance and hate.