Opinion

We all know housing prices have gone way up compared to a generation ago. This is especially true in B.C.'s Lower Mainland - now the most expensive place to live on the continent.

Dear Editor: Re: Senate needs more than just an election, editorial, Burnaby NOW, Feb. 13. Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been pressing ahead with legislation to implement a nine-year, non-renewable term limit on senators.

Dear Editor: Last week a gathering of practicing engineers and UBC engineering students were addressed by Jim Shepard, former CEO of Canfor, who in June 2011 was appointed as senior policy advisor to Premier Christy Clark.

Dear Editor: Re: Memories of B.C. NDP past, Letters to the Editor, Burnaby NOW, Feb. 13. While I admire letter writer Donald Leung for his interest in government, I believe he is a little deluded. He states that he is too young to remember the 1990s.

Last week, the federal Conservatives moved in a direction Canadians have yet to see them go - backwards. The government announced it would kill its much-reviled Bill C-30, better known as the Internet surveillance bill.

During the last 10 years, I've written about many profoundly personal topics in this paper: post-partum depression, struggles with weight, conflicts in marriage and parenting disasters, to name just a few.

Dear Editor: Re: Worried about impact, Letters to the Editor, Burnaby NOW, Jan. 30. Coreen Kerr is right to be concerned about the state of our social security system, but refugees are not to blame here.

Dear Editor: Not long ago, Canada went through a process of revising the electoral riding boundaries. Here in Burnaby-Douglas, the proposal involved putting a major water barrier right through the middle of the riding.

Are you happy with your life? If you are, congratulations! A cynic would say, "Enjoy it while you can. It won't last." Life can be a rollercoaster ride of highs and lows, successes and failures, good fortune and bad luck.

We don't normally expect a lot from any throne speech that timing dictates must be a key piece of a pre-election gambit. Fortunately, it means we are rarely disappointed.