Opinion

FACE TO FACE: What is great about Canada on Canada Day? Moments before I began writing this column, I opened an email from the B.C. minister responsible for multiculturalism informing me that June 27 was Multiculturalism Day in our country.

FACE TO FACE: What is great about Canada on Canada Day? Canada Day: a time to postpone our political palaver and reflect on what it is about Canada that gives us goose bumps. K.D.

Today is Canada's 144th birthday and in the Tri-Cities we are kicking off a long weekend with a party in every city.

The Editor, Re. "Bike route to connect to NW" (The Tri-City News, June 15). The United Boulevard overpass was screwed up right at the build stage, maybe even at the design stage.

The Editor, Re. "Scaled-down PoMo fire hall expected to be approved" (The Tri-City News, June 24).

Tri-City residents who care about their community have plenty of ways to show it. These days, it's not enough to simply pay your taxes, you have to get involved if you want your community to remain liveable.

FACE TO FACE: Did VPD do its job well during the Stanley Cup riot in Vancouver? Igrew up in Brandon, Manitoba, where the seven-month winter was often cold enough to freeze one's tonsils - or, at least, the tip of one's tongue to a metal railing (as I

FACE TO FACE: Did VPD do its job well during the Stanley Cup riot in Vancouver? My reactionary colleague often suggests my response to political crises is to sit around singing "Kumbaya" (conservatives consider this their cleverest and most incisive

Is Coquitlam a rogue council fighting for citizens' rights or a Don Quixote tilting at windmills over its recent dust-up with Metro Vancouver over the Regional Growth Strategy.

HONG KONG Ihave always proclaimed that I will never be a teacher. There are just too many of this species in my own family and I have never taken to the idea of working long, long hours with limited compensation.