Opinion

Are you prepared to pay a regional sales tax on top of the GST and PST? That's essentially the question Metro Vancouverites will answer in a March referendum.

The transit plebiscite campaign has now officially begun in earnest, and already one can see parallels to the one about the HST a couple of years back. And that is good news for the No side, and bad news for the Yes side.

Dear Editor: Announcements last week by Premier Christy Clark came as welcome news for mineral explorers in B.C.

Dear Editor: I just have to say something about the proposed tax hike for homeowners in Burnaby. The time has come for city council to start to show some self-restraint for a change.

When the teachers' strike divided the province last summer, everyone in B.C. supported the government - financially, if not philosophically.

Have you been rejected by the Federal Court of Appeal lately? Don't worry, you're not alone.

Here's a letter to the editor we received from Alan Dutton, one of the Burnaby Mountain Five named in Kinder Morgan's civil suit, which the company has now dropped .

A reader emailed me with some concerns that Kinder Morgan's civil suit isn't really over, and as far as legal technicalities go, she's right.

Postal workers have just come through our busiest time of the year. Two out of every three parcels we deliver are delivered during the holiday season.

What do a recent measles outbreak and climate change have in common? They're both issues involving clear scientific evidence that many people feel free to ignore in favour of their personal belief system.