Opinion

As we move into 2014, Canada’s medicare plan is undergoing some very difficult challenges. That’s right, our most valued national program for non-profit health care is under threat.

Is it a cynical ploy to appease Chinese voters or a serious attempt to heal old wounds and move forward? The provincial government is gathering input from the public on how to properly address an apology to the Chinese community for past injustices.

I went out on Monday, combing the banks of Burnaby's Silver Creek with NOW photographer Jennifer Gauthier and local streamkeeper Alan James.

As the clock ticks ever closer to the day the federal government decides whether to give the Northern Gateway pipeline project final approval, everything Prime Minister Stephen Harper has to say about the subject will increasingly be analyzed to the

Dear Editor: Re: Mayor, council to blame for mess, Letters to the editor, Burnaby NOW, Jan. 10.

Dear Editor: In reference to the letter "Bus loop a potential disaster" in your edition of Jan. 8, and to the opinion piece "Mayor, council to blame for mess" of Jan.

The B.C. legislature will begin sitting again this February, for the first time in months. Last year, provincial politicians in B.C. got together in Victoria for a mere 36 days.

Dear Editor: An incinerator fouls not only our airshed, with thousands of unknown toxins and a ton of greenhouse gases for every ton burned. It fouls our rivers, lakes, and groundwater.

In his recent letter to the editor (Mayor not at fault for this mess, Burnaby NOW, Dec. 27, Mr. McQueen calls the decision to close the bus loop at Brentwood "asinine" and lays the blame on TransLink.

Dear Editor: On one fine March day the telephone rang in our house. The three words I heard have changed our lives forever: "Caleb has cancer." How can that be? Our almost three-year-old grandson had been admitted to B.C.