Opinion

Judging from the intense media coverage and savage partisan commentary flowing from the SNC-Lavalin scandal you would think the federal Liberals are politically dead as a doornail.

This editorial has been amended since first posting. Something revolutionary happened in an Oklahoma courtroom on Monday: Johnson & Johnson was ordered to pay $572 million for its role in fomenting the state’s opioid crisis.

If you or any of your friends are new parents, perennially poo-covered, sleep-deprived and spit-upon, please remember this one thing: it gets easier.

Parting thoughts, parting shots from a certified Pompous Old Bore. A last column without tears – let’s get on with important business … Oh, dry those tears – isn’t 29 years at this stand long enough? This is my last column.

After years of stop-and-go political theatre, app-based ride hailing appears to be nearly here, with the province finalizing the rules and preparing to take applications from operators next month.

Trip to Downtown Eastside pockets $4 packs of smokes by the duffel bag

Thank goodness for megaprojects. That is one of the major takeaways from Central 1 Credit Union’s recently released three-year forecast for the B.C. economy.

Another week. Another federal funding announcement. Another study. We foresee already how the cynics will greet Tuesday’s news of federal dollars for building the business case for a North Shore rapid transit line .

This editorial has been amended. We have the perfect balance of North Vancouvers: one is too ambitious, the other not nearly ambitious enough. Last November, the City of North Vancouver charged ahead with an e-bike share program.

Summertime and the livin’ is easy. Unless you’re a bear. As I write, nine bears have been shot and killed on the North Shore this summer for the crime of … being a bear.