Opinion

It is not an election the province needs. It is an election John Horgan wants. His governing NDP has no requirement for any new mandate.

It comes as no surprise that our country’s premiers apparently see the pandemic as the perfect time to put the touch on the federal government when it comes to tackling the biggest consumer of tax dollars within all their own budgets.

I understand Richmond attorney Rebeka Breder is deeply disturbed by hunting and she offered her complaints in a Burnaby Now op-ed column that ran on14 September 2020. ( https://www.burnabynow.

The Editor, Re. “ Time is running out for Ioco townsite says Port Moody heritage advocate ,” (Trip-City News, Sept.

My email inbox here at the newspaper is often a cesspool of hatred, with a light sprinkling of death threats. That’s OK. I can take the slings and arrows of outrageous buffoons (credit to Shakespeare for that one).

It’s smoky out there. Need-headlights-at-4-p.m. smoky. Not as bad as newsrooms in 1982, mind you, but still as gloomy as a travel agent. We can see one thing clearly, though: It looks like an election is coming. Or maybe that’s elections, plural.

It took six months for the NDP government to release the economic recovery part of B.C.’s ongoing COVID-19 response. That’s a long time, given that the government committed about $5 billion in no time flat on various emergency relief measures.

Coquitlam Fire and Rescue was among several departments which responded to the fire which began Sunday

At this point, I’m starting to get a little worried about frogs, boils, and the health of my first-born son. Because it seems pretty obvious what is going on right now in this part of the world.

It’s been a difficult week in B.C., even by 2020 standards.