Opinion

Northern B.C. residents who are so inclined could fill up a fair chunk of their calendars just going to information meetings about different liquefied natural gas proposals, a Smithers lawyer said this week.

COPE lives! Remember that civic party? The same party that won a landslide in 2002 and crushed the NPA? Well, COPE is not exactly dead, although school trustee Allan Wong is the party’s only elected official.

On what will forever be known as Black LOL-less Wednesday, customers of Rogers experienced untold anguish and heartache after “hours-long” outages of cellphone service Wednesday evening.

Mad props, as the kids used to say, to our home-girl Alice Munro for snagging a hunk of that Nobel Peace Prize cheese for Literature on Thursday. In your face, Haruki Murakami . Nah, just messin’ with you H-Man, you’re still our dawg.

Re: “Film fest docs for your viewing pleasure,” Sept. 27

Re: “ESL students want credit for learning English,” Oct. 4

A man in Calgary recently told landlord Rebecca Caverhill that he was a “Freeman-on-the-Land” and that her house was now his “embassy.

No document more clearly states an organization’s political intentions than its budget. That is certainly the case with the “2014 Budget outlook” presented to Vancouver city council this week.

So I’m thinking of starting an ongoing column titled “That’s Not News!” Like the exclamation mark? I do! Anyway, the idea came to me after pointing out recently the police chief and mayor telling us the city is mired in a mental health crisis is old