Opinion

Dear Editor: I reside on the property where the fatal shooting took place on Sept. 30 .

For the first weeks of this 2020 provincial election campaign, it was hard to get anyone excited about the prospect of a vote. The promises were milquetoast. Everyone was far too concerned with coping through a pandemic to parse policies.

My comment should not be the one that counts here

I guess it should come as no surprise that, in an election campaign the likes of which we have never seen before, that we are also witnessing our political leaders making spending and taxation promises the kind of which we have not seen previously ei

Flattening the curve will help keep sticks out of our noses

Know any Latin? Probably not – it is a dead language, after all. But there’s one phrase you may have at least heard of: caveat emptor. It means, literally, “let the buyer beware.

Next week’s televised leaders’ debate may not determine the election result, but it will likely play a critical role in how the two opposition parties fare at the ballot box.

You’d think a province that just plunged billions into debt due to a sudden global health emergency would be a little strapped for cash at the moment. But the parties vying to run B.C. are still promising vast sums of money to individual voters.

In the wake of last week’s tragic events on the Capilano River, which killed two anglers, there are more questions than answers so far. The little we do know about what happened is horrific.

Now that the NDP-Green ­partnership has exploded with the election call, a lot of ­accumulated resentment is spilling out. The first grievances had to do with Premier John Horgan’s betrayal of the B.C.