Opinion

More often than not, New Year’s resolutions are campaign promises we make to ourselves; something to try for a bit before reluctantly admitting that doing Pilates and balancing the federal budget isn’t really for us.

If you want to plunge into 2018 the hard way, I suggest you go online to engage.gov.bc.ca/HowWeVote and click on the top right-hand button that says: “Read About Different Voting Systems.

Dear Editor : The recent census stats convincingly point to the chief cause of our commuting chaos. And clearly it’s not new development or lack of housing supply.

We bring you a story this week that is at once inspiring and maddening. Akayla Burley has gone from a youth on the brink to a skilled and conscientious young woman ready to help others in need.

I’ve never been one for year-in-review articles, but given the tumultuous and historic events on the B.C. political scene over the past 12 months, one seems to be in order.

Dear Editor : As I go by that fresh new building underway on Marine Drive at 14th Street in West Vancouver I am struck by a comparison.

About 120 years ago – an age when newspapers were less reliable but more trusted – The Sun newspaper in New York answered a young girl’s most pressing question: Is there a Santa Claus? “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus,” the anonymous editor ass

In the lead up to Christmas Day, last-minute shoppers and holiday revellers fill the streets as a general sense of merriment builds.

Two young brothers meet a mysterious woman and find themselves caught in the War on Christmas

Dear Editor : Does anybody consider a lack of planning for our traffic congestion? I do. When the Lions Gate was built in the ’30s it was to encourage development. Ditto for the Ironworkers Memorial in the late ’50s.