Skip to content
Join our Newsletter

Opinion

Letter: Thanks for another successful Fungus Among Us

Letter: Thanks for another successful Fungus Among Us

'See you next year, as always, the weekend after Thanksgiving'
Les Leyne: No one willing to defend rules blocking foreign-trained workers

Les Leyne: No one willing to defend rules blocking foreign-trained workers

As a skills shortage worsens every year, thousands of qualified workers have been sidelined by bureaucratic inertia and bogus requirements that were imposed in a different age
Adrian Raeside cartoon: Housing policy in B.C.

Adrian Raeside cartoon: Housing policy in B.C.

Baldrey: Looking at B.C.'s popularity polls a year out from the 2024 election

Baldrey: Looking at B.C.'s popularity polls a year out from the 2024 election

We may be viewing the classic "better dance with the devil you know than the one you don't" analogy, according to Keith Baldrey.
Letter: Increasing Whistler’s housing supply the only solution

Letter: Increasing Whistler’s housing supply the only solution

'The solution is simple: if demand is greater than supply, prices go up'
Letter: SD48 needs to hire more Whistler bus drivers

Letter: SD48 needs to hire more Whistler bus drivers

'Imagine yourself in a new country with a young daughter, unable to speak the language, standing in the rain, waiting for a school bus that never arrives'
Range Rover: Stoopid ’R Us

Range Rover: Stoopid ’R Us

'Stupidity—defined as behaviour that shows a lack of good sense or judgment—can be a momentary or lifelong affliction'
Comment: B.C. needs team-based health-care solutions

Comment: B.C. needs team-based health-care solutions

Outpatient health care requires a major redesign where health care professionals practice medicine more effectively and efficiently, in teams.
Charla Huber: Israel-Hamas war leads to a phone call with a childhood friend

Charla Huber: Israel-Hamas war leads to a phone call with a childhood friend

When tragic things occur in the world, it’s hard to know what to say
David Sovka: How the Celts kicked off trick-or-treating and other Halloween stuff explained

David Sovka: How the Celts kicked off trick-or-treating and other Halloween stuff explained

One theory is that modern trick-or-treating has its origins in a Celtic tradition of leaving food out to appease spirits. Eventually, people began to dress like the spirits, at least the ones that looked like hobos, Dracula and slutty nurses