Opinion

Mayor Kennedy Stewart believes the city’s 10 councillors should get a boost in their “discretionary budgets” from $6,000 to $30,000. Is this a good idea?

Health care is by far the greatest provincial government expenditure and physician compensation is a significant share of the B.C. budget. This important area of health policy, however, receives little public scrutiny.

The ability of an electoral contender to connect with voters of a particular ethnicity cannot measured by a last name, origin or ability to feature foreign languages in campaign paraphernalia.

What the provincial government in B.C. has managed to do last week is annoy a good part of the vast majority of homeowners who would never be considered speculators.

Speaker Darryl Plecas arrives for the legislative assembly management committee meeting. Photograph By TIMES COLONIST By now you've probably read about the "bombshell" report that the B.C.

Wang deserves criticism for her actions, but that doesn’t give people a licence to spread their gross caricatures of any ethnic group.

The mayor and councillors are required to fill out a form when they receive a “gift or personal benefit” worth $50 or more. The requirement is spelled out in the city’s code of conduct policy.

108 Steps, a.k.a. the ladder to nowhere is a hulking 120-foot metal structure, painted grey and permanently installed in a central boulevard along busy Kingsway at Gladstone Street.

Svend Robinson has made it official – he’s running again for elected office in Burnaby North-Seymour for the federal NDP after so many years away.

If you’re looking at holding onto a home for a reasonable length of time, if you can afford the mortgage and if you have a decent down payment, just go for it — trying to time the market is a fool’s errand.