Opinion

So B.C. Liberal MLA Kevin Krueger is packing it in (well, eventually) and is taking his boombox voice out of the legislature for good come the next election.

The Editor, Re: "Townhouse project gets green light," News, June 20. To the caring citizens living near Maple and No.

The Editor, Recently, I was ticketed heading south on Highway 99 near the Steveston exit for driving in the HOV lane.

The Editor, I see the RCMP are now demanding that taxpayers build them a 100-seat bar at the new facility in Surrey so they can serve alcohol to their members.

It's time for the province to review its confounding liquor licensing laws.

After reading my recent column on healthy sleep, a helpful reader wrote to remind me to mention the restorative power of the daytime nap.

By now, you've heard about Karen Klein, the bullied bus monitor from upstate New York who is enjoying a massive financial windfall thanks to a Good Samaritan from Toronto.

As the B.C. Liberal government keeps emphasizing its "Families First Agenda," it is undermining its own efforts on that front with the ongoing train wreck over at Community Living B.C (CLBC).

Insomnia and other sleep disorders are common problems that patients present to their doctors and sleeping pills are usually not the best solution. They sedate the brain and by doing so may increase our risk for accidents, including falls.

In the same week the chief coroner of Ontario called for mandatory bike helmet laws in that province, a group of cycling advocates on this coast has called for our own helmet regulations to be relaxed or scrapped. The mind boggles.