Opinion

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. Dickens wasn’t talking about the North Shore’s housing market when he wrote the opening lines of A Tale of Two Cities.

Whether you’re going to the movies with a friend, a loved one or your kids, you want the experience to suit your needs and your budget.

Some of the NDP government’s front bench members found themselves squirming last week when their words uttered in Opposition came back to haunt them in government. B.C.

Movie is a funny word, isn’t it? This fact dawns on you when you consider what the opposite of a movie is. A movie is not a painting, or a photograph.

It really seemed like Justin Trudeau’s political future was in peril this time. This scandal was too massive. These implications were too damaging to too many Canadians.

Earth Hour is an annual event held towards the end of March where an hour out of the evening is dedicated to switching off the lights at home or work. The event was first initiated in 2007 as a lights-out event in Sydney, Australia.

I’d like to dedicate this column to Nicole Nielsen, a student at Handsworth Secondary, who’s smarter than her teachers . Not that anyone cares, apparently.

When deciding on property tax hikes, successions of West Vancouver’s councils all chose a nice, round figure: zero. Then as now, many were receptive to the play-today, pay-tomorrow school of finance. But tomorrow is coming.

Dear Editor: In the interests of the Earth and the future of children, West Vancouver must think more as a global community and not so much as “what is good for my little piece of heaven on earth.

As he watches a seemingly never-ending scandal dog his leadership, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau might be wise to study how recent B.C. political party leaders handled their own times of trouble. Some of them survived, others did not.