Opinion

The 2007 provincial budget announced by finance minister Carol Taylor on Tuesday has a good news, bad news feel to it. The good news: B.C. taxpayers are getting a 10 per cent break and personal income tax savings of up to $864 a year.

Last Saturday was the third anniversary of my mom's death. I marked it helping my youngest son Patrick and his partner move up the street in Vancouver.

Health care is front and centre this week with news the emergency room (ER) at St. Mary's Hospital is on life support. Dr.

My close friends and family have always known I had a passion for a different kind of journalism - broadcast journalism. Growing up in Saskatchewan and then B.C.

Why don't you take the long way? Anyone who's heard this question recognizes its sarcasm. After 27 years of being asked this, I still don't have an answer. But I do have a question: why not? I like challenges, I always have.

Email is quickly becoming the new poison pen medium - just ask Bill Bennett.

Is Wal-Mart coming to town? That's the million dollar question that many in this community seem convinced is true. We tried to get to the bottom of this mystery this week (see story page A1), but the development company remains tight-lipped.

Have you ever known someone who inspired you to be a better person? I have the pleasure of knowing a handful of such people.

I'm a smoker. There, I've said it. I realize the stigma around smoking today makes me the equivalent of a modern day leper, but it's a decision, a bad one, I made years ago.

Robert William Pickton - innocent until proven guilty. Not so for some of the folks writing about or observing his trial this week.