Opinion

This piece is neither for or against Stephen Harper and the Conservatives. It’s simply a behind-the-scenes take on a surreal campaign trail experience from the eyes of a community reporter.

I got up this morning and knew that the newspapers I work for, the newspapers I love, are still running. I got up this morning and knew, hey, chances are good I still have a job. It didn’t make me particularly happy.

It is hard to believe that it will be 35 years since a one-legged lad from Port Coquitlam started an international movement.

Dear Editor: Something is amiss when infrastructure projects routinely overshoot their original estimates by millions – and sometimes – billions of dollars in B.C. It isn't rounding errors.

Dear Editor: Two years ago, the Burnaby school board came up with an ambitious proposal to try and encourage students to excel in their academic studies. The Advanced Placement Capstone was a pilot project done in conjunction with the U.S.

Dear Editor: Re: NDP bewilders reader, letters to the editor, Aug. 27. Let me try to clear up some of the reader’s bewilderment.

Dear Editor, Why are none of the politicians on the campaign trail talking about the outrageous price of gas and diesel fuel versus the very low cost of crude oil, and how Big Oil is gouging the motoring public and the transportation industry, and ho

There has been a lot of discussion about pipeline projects in recent days, especially in the Lower Mainland of B.C., where urban environmentalists tend to dominate the conversation.

We always like to look for a Canadian angle to events, including national holidays. Who knew – well, probably lots of people, that Labour Day may very well have had its beginnings in troubled times in Toronto and Ottawa.

All the words & TV reporting of the refugee crisis in a single photo. Humbled by @DanielEtterFoto pic.twitter.