Opinion

Editorial: Time for a crackdown on sugary food

A tax and a ban on advertising to children aren't enough

Mar 3, 2016 3:16 PM Read more >

Column: It’s time to fix the PST for business, taxpayers

Gordon Campbell’s political miscalculation in 2009 to impose a harmonized sales tax on an unsuspecting public continues to haunt the province.

Mar 3, 2016 9:18 AM Read more >

Letter: Mining is not as bad as diamond column says

The Editor, Re. “How costly is your bling? And how ‘dirty’?” (Living Green, The Tri-City News, Feb. 26).

Mar 3, 2016 9:15 AM Read more >

Letter: Assessments of land values don’t add up

The Editor, I live in Coquitlam and have been subjected to net property tax increases totalling 15.7% over the last two years.

Mar 3, 2016 9:14 AM Read more >

Letter: Treating elderly is just one Riverview idea

The Editor, For approximately 31 years, I worked at Riverview Hospital as a registered psychologist and am very familiar with what this amazing hospital and staff provided to patients.

Mar 2, 2016 1:30 PM Read more >

Letter: Keeping a terrorist in Canada not 'Canadian'

The Editor, God forbid we send convicted terrorist Zakaria Amara back to Jordan after he serves time in a Canadian jail

Mar 2, 2016 1:29 PM Read more >

Letter: Save Thrifty's in Coquitlam

The Editor, Re. "Coquitlam man calls for Thrifty’s to remain" (The Tri-City News, Feb. 19).

Mar 2, 2016 1:27 PM Read more >

Editorial: The cost of silence at tax time

Not happy with tax increases? Speak up

Feb 29, 2016 3:37 PM Read more >

AS I SEE IT: Do your worst, Vancouver, he’s not leaving

Time to once again prove what a loser I am. I’m going to... gulp... continue living in Vancouver.

Feb 26, 2016 2:08 PM Read more >

Letter: Kindness of strangers eases pain of Belcarra family’s loss

Following the death of a son, the Broburg-Hull family "found a community of people in the Tri-Cities whose acts of kindness to our family will never be forgotten" — and they were strangers.

Feb 26, 2016 12:17 PM Read more >