Ever the optimists, we look at 2016 like a yet-to-be-opened gift.
What’s behind the wrapping and bow, we won’t know until the pots and pans are banged and the boats sound their horns at midnight, but we have high hopes, especially for the people and communities we cover on the North Shore.
For North Shore Rescue members, we hope the province shows up with a new funding model. Or better still, we hope 2016 contains many more quiet nights at home with family, thanks to amateur adventurers getting better prepared before heading into the backcountry.
We hope 2016 finds a way for the newly elected federal government to make good on the promises its leader made over the past year – there are big ideas there and the risk of big failure, but also the possibility of real changes for Canadians.
For the City of North Vancouver, we hope for relative political peace and some serious progress on bringing life back to the Shipyards.
The District of North Vancouver has the job of dealing with traffic on the Cut. We hope for anything that gets things moving again. For transit commuters, we hope for a break in the political impasse that’s preventing us from improving our system.
Canada has a swath of new refugees arriving in the months ahead. We hope they find a welcoming embrace and serenity in their new lives as the headlines fade.
Blessedly, 2016 holds no local, national or B.C. election campaigns and so we hope our politicians at all three levels act like it.
Regardless of what the year ahead holds, we hope you’ll stick with us, as we bring you the news and commentary.
Happy New Year.
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