Opinion

New museums and community centres. Free bus rides province-wide for children 12 and under, tax-free electric bikes and a pandemic rebate on vehicle insurance ­premiums (if ICBC can afford it).

The COVID-19 count crashed Premier John Horgan’s party on Thursday, reminding everyone yet again there is only one political issue in this province.

Making this school year memorable for something other than COVID-19

We are so grateful to the entire North Shore community for their unprecedented and generous contributions to our Poppy Campaign! This has been a record year for donations and we are humbled and moved by the tremendous outpouring of support.

Dear Editor: Why haven’t we restarted the 7 p.m. health-care workers support [cheer]? Let’s start this Friday night, my neighbourhood has bagpipe band players. Sing, clap your hands, play the bagpipes and above all show support.

Grocery store bouncers, awkward mask chats, avocados ... we're all into some weird stuff right now

Rage, rage against the dying of the light. — Dylan Thomas We’re gonna have the hap, hap, happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny [bleeping] Kaye. — Clark Griswold This is the season when orthopedic surgeons get rich.

A bare parking lot on the District of North Vancouver’s Delbrook Lands may yet be home to affordable housing now that the municipality has partnered with the Hollyburn Family Services Society to develop the site. This is excellent news.

When the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in March, seniors in long-term care homes were among the hardest hit.

As winter rolls in to Squamish and the Sea to Sky in general with a bang, let’s all remember to be safe on our roads and highways.