Opinion

It seems speculation that a provincial election will be held this year simply will not go away. Pundits and columnists keep talking about it. Political activists keep insisting it could happen at any time.

Snow – despite the best efforts of local meteorologists, Environment Canada and everyone who moved here from the Prairies – always takes Vancouver by surprise.

Easterners may tease us about our winters, but they don’t live on the sides of mountains

Dear editor: I can take no more. I feel I must provide a rebuttal to The North Side opinion piece in the Jan. 3 edition, by Paul Sullivan. To me, Mr.

We’ve had a new addition to the family! She arrived a couple of days after Christmas, and from the time we set eyes on her, she’s brought us immense joy.

It was a dark and stormy night. No, really it was. I was driving up to Whistler from the Vancouver airport very late last Monday night, Dec. 30 and you could have been forgiven for thinking that the Sea to Sky Corridor was under a monsoon.

There’s potential snow in the forecast, according to Environment Canada.

Two doctors, an engineer, a hygienist, two students, a baker. All of them Iranian by birth. All of them Canadian by choice. And all of them gone.

We bring you yet another story this week about a driver striking pedestrians in the crosswalk of an intersection. This time, it was a man who couldn’t wait for two people to cross Third Street at Bewicke Avenue.

Once again, a pipeline protest is about to put the B.C. NDP government in a bit of a political pickle. And no, I am not referring to the endless debate over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.