Opinion

12th & Cambie

Riled up over Robson Re: “City looks at blocking Robson off permanently,” City Shorts, April 14, 2016. Build your funky benches on the east and north sides of the art gallery. Why screw up people trying to get through there.

There’s a paradox in the environmental-management bill that tightens up oil-spill response expectations. It makes all kinds of welcome improvements in the current regime. But as soon as it takes effect, the B.C.

“You are known by the company you keep.” That adage sure holds true in politics. In 2008, Barack Obama was swept into the Oval Office on a mass wave of “hope and change.

Gary Krause was mystified by an unusual fish he caught in his trawl net off BC’s Pacific north coast in October. It was a Pacific electric ray, named for a pair of organs behind its head that can knock a human adult down with a powerful shock.

For those advocates fighting for medically assisted deaths since long before Sue Rodriguez became a national symbol of this struggle, last year’s Supreme Court decision in Carter V. Canada, created a tremendous burst of hope.

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NDP Leader John Horgan was already thinking about some kind of repositioning on a big job-creating project before the Steelworkers’ memo landed. Now he has to consider the manoeuvre, with the full story of why it’s necessary made public.

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