Opinion

I love most members of my family, but the folks from Alberta are really trying my patience. They’ve gone from heated anti-Justin Trudeau jokes to downright dangerous behaviour that is now hitting too close to home.

Dear Horsefly: It is with deep gratitude that I thank you for what has been previously impossible for me to achieve - knock two minutes off my time up the Grouse Grind.

Dear Editor: We have been quite shocked this year at the speed and general carelessness of boaters in Deep Cove.

Dear Editor: A 30 C day like [Sunday] was a good excuse to pull up under the shade at a neighbourhood “house concert” and take in local, longtime favourite artist Shari Ulrich, playing to a socially distanced, masked audience in a backyard on 22nd St

Dear editor: It takes a village to raise a child. Well, it seems, it also takes a community to find a dog.

Dear Editor: Re: Pickleball players need keep their ‘noisy, disturbing’ game off tennis courts, Aug. 10 Mailbox. I grew up in the United Kingdom as the son of two good tennis players, one of which played at Junior Wimbledon.

Grown man pitches in a Little League baseball game, is bad at it, gets heckled

We bring you the story this week of Jake Musgrave , the young man from North Van set to pedal 6,000 kilometres across Canada to raise money for leukemia research, wearing a face mask the whole way. Musgrave is a role model in more ways than one.

B.C. has made a major new commitment to one COVID-19 response tactic that suggests officials are more certain now that a surge in cases is coming this fall, if not sooner.

I first noticed a few weeks back that increased numbers of younger British Columbians (under 40 years of age) were testing positive for the virus and that B.C.’s pandemic demographics had significantly shifted.