Opinion

Even from an era of polyester suits and pet rocks, there’s no trend that causes quite as much embarrassed anguish today as the assumptions that guided the creation of Capilano University.

Dear editor: Re: High Property Taxes Punishing Businesses, Jan. 24 front-page story.

Dear editor: While I am concerned about small businesses being responsible for covering their landlords’ ever-rising property taxes, and the financial pressures of a high-rent municipality, Coun.

Ride-hailing has now set up shop in B.C. and depending on how you look at it, this development is either a tremendous breakthrough for consumers or the worst thing to come along in quite a while.

Pandemics like the one currently seen in the novel coronavirus are terrifying. They are the raw material of science-fiction horror movies that we don’t want to ever become science fact.

Better infrastructure would help get more women using a bike for transportation

The challenges facing many local businesses seem to go from dire to worse. They’ve been hit with slings and arrows from many directions, having to compete against big box stores and online shopping chief among them.

It looks as though Prince Harry, Meghan Markle and their young son are thinking about moving to Canada’s West Coast.

Dear editor: The first snowstorm of this frosty winter caught me off guard. The forecast had called for snow but as someone who grew up with white winters I thought myself immune to the road havoc it could bring.

At least 17 people have died in China following a virus outbreak, and the city at the centre of the outbreak, Wuhan, has been placed in quarantine.