Opinion

The potentially expensive argument that erupted over the labour model for building the Site C dam eased somewhat on Wednesday, with news of a compromise deal between B.C. Hydro and the building trades. B.C.

Get a (BATH)room Re: “ The Growler’s guide to drinking in public ”, May 21, 2015 Hey, Asshole [Stephen Smysniuk], you don’t care for other people (non-alcoholics, i.e. the majority of the population) or wildlife and the environment.

A bitter footnote to the long-running controversy over the 2012 firing of eight health researchers emerged in the legislature Tuesday.

What will become of TransLink when the plebiscite ends May 29? Since March 16, Metro Vancouver voters were asked if they want to pay more tax at the till for its $7.7 billion expansion wish list.

Since May 2015 marks my first anniversary as a Courier columnist, I thought it would be interesting to look back over the past 12 months and contemplate which issues will likely dominate the Vancouver civic affairs scene in the year ahead.

There are days when I wish I could trade my life for another. Hard days, when I think that literally any other set of circumstances would be easier to deal with than my own reality.

We’ve all lied at some point in our lives. Whether it’s about how someone looks or something we should have taken responsibility for but lied to get out trouble.

A Supreme Court judge has ordered B.C. to turn over a huge volume of personal health information on millions of citizens to a tobacco company so it can review for itself the linkages between smoking and health-care costs.

I’ll begin with a quote from Benjamin Franklin. You’ve probably heard it a million times, but what the heck. It goes like this: “In this world, nothing can be said to be certain except for death and taxes.” Now a quote from yours truly.

Re: “Cycling getting trippy in Vancouver,” May 15.