Opinion

Burnaby council’s courageous stand against Kinder Morgan’s plan to slice a pipeline bearing Alberta tar sands bitumen through our city reflects valid local concerns. But it has global significance.

Dear Editor: Re: It’s Hancott vs. Corrigan in Burnaby mayor’s race, Burnaby NOW , Aug. 1. Burnaby NOW , shame on you! Burnaby First announced its mayoral candidate, Daren Hancott, and it was on page 9. This is front-page information.

Dear Editor: Midwives bring pregnancy and birth back to the realm of the sacred/divine feminine – the shared capacity of the female body to carry and birth a child underwrites the relationship which as much a professional partnership as personal one.

Dear Editor: On Mayne Island, we recycle pretty much everything.

Dear Editor: As a teacher in Burnaby I have a strong interest in seeing the strike/lockout resolved by September. We all want to go back to school. But when the government offered its $40/day subsidy to parents, they threw gas on the fire.

Canada is safe. The last time crime rates were this low the Post-It hadn’t been invented and The Beatles were together.

How many people reading this column could go 20 weeks without a paycheque, without seriously depleting your savings account or cashing in a significant amount of RRSP funds? I suspect not many people could, but that bleak scenario is precisely the on

The new plan by the province to pay parents $40 a day per child for every day the teachers’ strike drags on into September is not the worst idea in the world. Let’s face it, many parents need financial help with finding child care.

Dear Editor: Israel is digging its own grave. I believe there will be a reckoning and repercussions for how Israel has treated the Palestinian people over the last 50 years.

Dear Editor: Re: Mayor is out of touch, and Mayor is right on SkyTrain, Letters to the Editor, Burnaby NOW, July 2. The first letter, “Mayor is out of touch,” is in regard to washrooms at SkyTrain stations.