Opinion

Dear Editor: Re: Skyscraper stirs debate, Burnbay NOW, Feb. 28. I totally agree with Barry and Gloria MacDonald, whose concern is the increased traffic and population in and around Brentwood with its planned massive expansion.

Dear Editor: Re: Where is the pipeline going?, Burnaby NOW, March 1.

The National Energy Board has said no to MP Kennedy Stewart's request to extend the application period to participate in the Kinder Morgan pipeline hearings, but how does this fit the bigger picture? Stewart was raising the same question we were aski

Environment Minister Mary Polak recently announced that many small businesses will be exempt from onerous new recycling rules set to come into effect this May.

Dear Editor: Re: Will teacher take a pay cut to help cover costs?, Letters to the editor, Burnaby NOW, Feb. 14. I just finished reading Larry Melnyk's comedy of comparing Canada to a democracy, and I felt it necessary to respond.

Dear Editor: Sometimes I wonder where we would be as a society without bullying! It's ironic to see popular politicians jump on the bandwagon on anti-bullying campaigns, considering the obvious fact that a politician is a bully by nature.

Dear Editor: It is absolutely ludicrous to expect any kind of fairness or balance from the local papers, especially this one, when it comes to political or social awareness hereabouts.

If someone had told us a decade ago that municipalities would be trying to figure out where and how to fit medical marijuana companies into their planning manuals today - well, we would have told them they must be smoking something.

There's more to the story of Sharon Freeman, the local teacher at the centre of a misconduct hearing with the B.C. Teacher Regulation Branch.

While the B.C.