Local Voices

GUEST COLUMN – Some suggestions for ‘another direction’ in fixing City council

January 28, 2024 // 10 Comments

By BRONWEN SCOTT Guest Columnist OVER A MONTH AGO, the provincial government cancelled its former appointee’s investigation in favour of “going in another direction” to [Continue]

PETERS – All for the simple sin of wanting to relieve their pain

January 27, 2024 // 2 Comments

HYDROMORPHONE is an amazing substance. When that opioid is coursing through your veins, everything in the world is okay. You feel calm, you feel relaxed, and most [Continue]

FORSETH – Sympathetic rhetoric isn’t solving the drug overdose crisis

January 26, 2024 // 6 Comments

HOT ON THE HEELS of the latest tragic death statistics for those who have died tragically from drug overdoses, came a media release from Premier David Eby’s NDP government [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Dry January is just the start

January 25, 2024 // 1 Comment

AFTER OVERINDULGING during the holiday season, many Canadians will be abstaining from alcohol completely in January. That’s a good idea but it’s just the start. For me, [Continue]

FORSETH – If a service is declared essential, it should be available to all

January 24, 2024 // 1 Comment

WHILE THE WHEELS of transit, in metro-Vancouver, sit idle, BC United leader Kevin Flacon has a solution: “Frankly, these are essential services. People use transit to get [Continue]

COLLINS – More empty promises for help go down the drain

January 21, 2024 // 6 Comments

HOW QUICKLY things change. Not too long ago, I wrote that help for Ukraine would last until something bigger came along in the news cycle. This, in the midst of Ukraine’s [Continue]