Opinion

In all the anguish about unaffordable housing in Metro Vancouver, much has been said about houses sitting vacant while local families move to Squamish or Winnipeg to find a detached home they can afford.

The world does not, in fact, revolve around you As a long term resident of the West End, and a regular at the fabulous YMCA facility on Burrard, I feel obliged to expose something ugly that I recently witnessed.

Is it that she's a sister? Photo Instagram Is it that she’s always been a winner? What tennis player does 11-year-old Serena want to be like? "Well, I'd like other people to be like me." (Jump to 1:17.

It has been more than 12 years since my family and I put down roots just off Fraser Street in the Mountain View neighbourhood , which took its name from the nearby cemetery.

In the 1979 film The Life of Brian, the eponymous hero played by Graham Chapman approaches a group of cloaked figures. “Are you the Judean People's Front?” Brian meekly asks them.

No matter what anyone says during this long federal election campaign, climate change is the biggest threat to Canadians’ health, security and economy. The scientific evidence is incontrovertible , the research wide-ranging and overwhelming.

Stephen Harper’s tepid response — so far — to the crisis facing Syrian refugees should come as no surprise.

If ever there were a political minefield in this city, it is the Downtown Eastside.

A high percentage of people with places to share seem to be looking for roommates that are clean, quiet, respectful and, above all, female.