Opinion

Things are buzzing in the electric transportation world these days. On Tuesday, a gaggle of reporters gathered in Richmond to watch the first test flight of Harbour Air’s new all-electric passenger plane .

BALDREY: Horgan and Trudeau's strong relationship may benefit B.C. when it comes to health care spendd

Dear editor: In what increasingly feels like a world full of “bad” news, I was heartened to read Brent Richter’s article in Friday’s paper, Moving Mountains to Save a River. Thank you, Mr. Richter, for this amazing local interest story.

It’s ironic that Human Rights Day this week fell on the anniversary of the day that two Canadians were jailed in China a year ago on vague security charges. Nobody believes either Michael Kovrig or Michael Spavor has done anything wrong.

Dear editor: On Nov. 7 an accident on the south side of the Second Narrows resulted in very long delays for traffic trying to leave the North Shore and for traffic trying to go east-west across the highway (e.g. Lower Lonsdale to Seymour).

New underground parking options should make it possible to close off the village's two busiest blocks

Well, so much for the power of the bully pulpit. Construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline kicked off Tuesday in Edmonton despite my ongoing opposition. But never mind me.

It was five years ago this week that a natural disaster nearly destroyed one of the North Shore’s largest rivers as a spawning ground for salmonids.

Just before the last question period of the fall sitting of the legislature began last Thursday, Speaker Darryl Plecas offered an observation to the members.

The North Shore doesn’t lack its share of sustainability advocates. But as the season of stuff rolls around, those concerned about climate change might want to look carefully at their own carbon footprints.