Opinion

How do you tell an aging parent or friend that their driving is no longer up to snuff? How can you ignore the tell-tale accumulating dents, the grandkids covering their eyes when grandma's backing up at the mall or the long line of cars following Unc

Where were you Tuesday night when history was made? For only the third time in its 40-year history, the Vancouver Canucks are in the Stanley Cup final. This remarkable season and playoff run have been amazing.

One student was dead on impact, lying on the hood of a car. Another lay lifeless next to a second car, while two other students were walking around the scene, dazed and confused.

There has been a lot of trash talk around the office this past week. Not the kind where slurs are made behind people's backs, of course, but rather talk about the kind of trash people leave when they don't clean up after themselves.

As I write this column, I have been a non-smoker for 72 days. I can breath easier, I smell better, and for the first time in 16 years, I have been able to sport a cancer awareness pin without any guilt.

For a community that prides itself on its environmental activism and championing of the environment, some of us are just downright pigs. Yes, you read right, pigs. The amount of illegal dumping that is going on up and down the Coast is staggering.

For all my life, spring has meant clean up to me. When I was a kid, the walls were scrubbed, the ceiling washed (a death-defying trick for the short members of my family) and the ratty old linoleum floor polished to an unbelievable brilliance.

You can never accuse Canadian politics of being boring. Monday's night's federal election was full of enough drama, political intrigue, jubilation, history - and, in some cases, horror - to make any Hollywood script writer envious.

The lowest voter turnout since confederation - did I really just read that? Scrolling through my Twitter feed last week, a tweet came up from a magazine I follow that said the last Canadian federal election had the lowest turnout since confederation.

Last year 179 workers lost their lives in work-related accidents in B.C. That number is simply unacceptable. No one should wake up one morning, kiss their loved ones goodbye and go to work and die.