Opinion

Here we are getting ready to celebrate our 150th birthday. That’s old for a person, but young for a country. As we get ready to party we discover our mother, the U.K., and our always supportive uncle, the U.S., have become dysfunctional.

Dear Editor: Health care is crumbling under the stress of its entrepreneurship, trying to reinvent itself when it comes to caring for those who are seriously ill and the impact on the families involved.

West Vancouver town hall moans that 49 per cent of our large local taxes are collected for other governments. No problem. Let’s do a Wexit. Yes, let’s have a referendum.

Cruelty to animals in the food industry was front and centre this week after the release of a sickening undercover video from the group Mercy for Animals showing workers at a commercial poultry operation sadistically abusing the chickens under their

Dear Editor: During the decades following the rejection in 1970 of an eight-lane tunnel crossing under Burrard Inlet, construction of all types has proceeded apace on the North Shore.

Dear Editor: Re: Feds Need to Cool Off Heated Housing Market , June 4 opinion piece. Bill Good writes of the need to cool the heated housing market.

The only certainty that exists in B.C. politics right now is that we know the date when the legislature is being recalled. But that’s about it. There is a throne speech planned for that first day, June 22.

Like James Brown doing his famous cape routine during a closing number of “Please, Please, Please,” Premier Christy Clark just doesn’t seem ready to leave the stage.

The first rule of Hike Club? You do not talk about Hike Club! That’s what I learned after my last column, which included an innocent request for suggestions of good hiking trails on the North Shore.

There’s a distinct sense we’ve spotted the iceberg – observed it is big, dangerous and directly in our path – and neglected to change course. The state of housing affordability on the North Shore continues to constitute a crisis.