Opinion

Last week I received a phone call from Stephanie, a Montreal flight attendant for Air Canada Express who’s relocating to Vancouver in March.

We got ride-sharing last week in the Lower Mainland. People hopped a lift from neighbours in the cold and snow. We had ride-hailing, too. People waved their arms to flag a taxi.

Apart from the astonishing resumé, the dramatic historical moments he created and the immense reputation he developed, I flashed back on one thing when word of Ted Hughes’ death broke. His eyes. He had a captivating gaze.

I went on a Toronto radio show this week where the host struggled to contain herself as I described Victoria’s brush with Real Canadian Winter. “Say it again,” she urged. “Tell me how minus six was ‘brutally cold.

Green councillors pooled money to hire former campaign staffer

Everyone can understand and sympathize with former B.C. Green Party leader Andrew Weaver over his family health crisis. But the political rationale that prompted him to quit the caucus he led up until this month is less clear.

Memos from senior stuff suggest removing, rearranging furniture

It’s been said a million times, most often by shirtless dads after mowing the lawn, “Heroes aren’t born, they’re made.” This is particularly true during the winter of Vancouver’s discontent, otherwise known as #snowmageddon2020.

Happy Instagram photos, online indignation, photos of cleared bike lanes, Facebook envy, rain-fueled amnesia

Many of us have come to British Columbia to reinvent, even escape. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle picked up on this fact somehow amid the fake facts that dog them in the tabloids.