Opinion

B.C. is on its way to becoming the first province in Canada to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

An open letter to District of North Vancouver mayor and council: Re: Lynn Canyon Parking Lot Project Scaled Back, Oct. 18 news story. It is with shock and disbelief that we learned about the proposed tree removal in Lynn Canyon Park.

By the looks of things, we are getting a minority government, most likely with the Liberals and NDP making peace and making policy.

I have seen many things around the B.C. legislature during the 30-plus years I’ve been stationed there covering B.C. politics, but I’ve never been partly responsible for kicking a cabinet committee out of the historic cabinet chamber.

Dear editor: Re: City Floats Free Child Care for Meetings, Oct. 9 news story. The headline for this article is at best confusing and at worst misleading.

Dear editor: Re: PPC Mailer Draws Criticism But is Within Elections Canada Rules, Oct. 18 news story. We run a disciplined campaign.

To see what the federal parties are saying about cycling and active transportation, the Pedal Pushers downloaded the platforms from the Liberal, Conservative, NDP, Green, Bloc Quebecois and People’s parties.

Who is the best prime minister? Not the best for right now – our votes on Monday should answer that uneasy question – but who is the best Canadian prime minister ever? The question had never really occurred to me until last week.

According to Elections Canada, an estimated 4.7 million Canadians didn’t want to wait for election day and instead cast their ballots at advance polls, a 29 per cent increase over 2015.

A functional democracy takes practice. Across the North Shore, students have been researching federal party platforms and debating and discussing the future of the country.