Opinion

Despite push back from the public and concerns from people with disabilities, the honeymoon phase of wide-open fare gates comes to a close on April 4.

Dear Editor: As a smoker of more than 30 years, I realize the detrimental heath issues it has on my health and others that I smoke around.

Last week, North Shore drivers succumbing to the temptation to reach for their cellphones got an unpleasant surprise. North Vancouver RCMP set up on Marine Drive in a utility truck, with an officer dressed as a worker perched high overhead.

For some reason, I found myself driving through Metrotown in Burnaby the other day. Whoa.

Dear Editor: In light of yet another death in Lynn Canyon, it is time that some realistic measures be taken to prevent this from happening again.

Of course the District of North Vancouver is not amalgamating with the City of Burnaby. That would be absurd. But we hope our front page April Fools’ story at least got you thinking. That, of course, is the point of good satire.

Dining out is getting more and more expensive in B.C., especially if you’re breaking bread with the premier.

“Montreal leads the way in access to rapid transit with 37 per cent of its population living within walking distance of a rapid transit stop or station. It is followed by Toronto, where 34 per cent of residents can walk to rapid transit.

I doubt any province fared better from the recent federal government budget than British Columbia, which may actually have received a record harvest of Ottawa largesse and attention.

Job losses and economic collapse in the oil sector are sowing the seeds of despair in neighbouring Alberta and Saskatchewan. The world burns in the Middle East and a political crisis has beset Europe’s leaders over migration.