Opinion

I am reminded of an old joke about the restaurant: “Waiter, what’s this fly doing in my soup?” “The backstroke, I believe.” If you don’t find that funny – understandable if not – there is a local similar situation even less amusing.

I recently had an unpleasant experience in one of the dog parks in town, which managed to combine some of the worst aspects of our society at this time. This viewpoint is, therefore, about the global and the very local.

Lower Mainland school districts such as North Vancouver School District are phasing out the honour roll. Fewer students are showing up on these lists of achievements each report card until they eventually no longer exist.

What a beautiful land, with vast expanses and resources, exceedingly rich, given the population of just 37 million in the second largest country of the world. This was my opinion until St.

B.C. Hydro’s recently expressed friendliness to power-hungry cryptocurrency miners could bode well for the province. But courting this new industry is a fine art that the utility should start learning, if it wants to have any chance of success.

Have you made a New Year's resolution for 2019?

It's that time of year again to propose a few New Year's resolutions for B.C.'s political class and this year there's a bit of a theme to the resolutions: transparency. No ill can come from it and it will fit into most holiday budgets to boot.

Officially, our province’s motto is “Splendour without Diminishment.” But looking back on the year now closing, a better choice might be “Expect the Unexpected.” Premier John Horgan led off the year with a political bombshell.

The Electronic Products Recycling Association of B.C. says more than 200,000 tons of electronics are recycled each year across the province since the EPRA BC program started more than a decade ago.

People living in the northern hemisphere have brought trees and boughs into their homes during the winter for thousands of years.