Opinion

The unexpected appointment of Peter Fassbender as the B.C. cabinet minister now responsible for TransLink has everyone guessing what he may have in store for the beleaguered transit authority.

If we start pounding this message home now, will it have sunk in by Oct. 19? VOTE. Just a warning: we plan to keep sending this message, over and over again, for the next two-and-a-half months.

This is my team. My crew. My tribe. And, right at this moment, I’m so phenomenally proud and honoured to work with them that I just can’t stop myself from blogging about them.

Dear Editor, To the kind, generous and anonymous Boston Pizza guest: On Thursday, July 9, your unexpected kind act made the day of several seniors and staff from Elim Village.

Dear Editor, Whenever politicians want to shift public attention away from their own failures, they invariably choose to toss the ball into someone else’s court.

Many municipalities and their residents might be surprised by the scale of coal industry spending that goes on in their own backyards, including those in Metro Vancouver far from the mines themselves, such as Burnaby. While the 26,000 jobs and $3.

Dear Editor, Only homeowners pay a property tax to the municipality, which is budgeted to be spent on public schools, the fire department, the police, the libraries and community centres, etc.

Dear Editor, The articles posted in the July 24 edition of the Burnaby NOW both make very good points. (Re: Survey probes health of Burnaby’s homeless youth and OUR VIEW: C’mon Burnaby, make the first move.

Sure, sure, some may say summer is half over. We’d rather look at the beautiful month of August ahead of us and realize how much time we still have left to enjoy everything the season of sunshine has to offer.

I received an anonymous email about some sign vandalism at Kinder Morgan's Westridge Marine Terminal in north Burnaby, where tankers fill up with crude.