Coming clean out of enclaves

As we get set to celebrate a new year of cultural diversity, let's work on how we can create a stronger integrated community.

Retire attacks for a solution

Canada's universal pension plan is under attack once again.

Kinder Morgan not slick in our books

If Kinder Morgan Canada wants to build good will in the community, we suggest it clear away the fog of mystery around its Sumas terminal and pipeline. Last Tuesday, its Abbotsford neighbours woke to overwhelming oil fumes before dawn, but it took officials...

Gruntless, combobulates all gone

T hat's the trouble with the English language, isn't it? It's too darned ambiguous.

Take away temptation

National Non-Smoking Week may not have been an event on everyone's lips as it was being celebrated last week. but then, neither were cigarettes.

Not asking for a telethon

Finally, there is a name for it, this "condition" of mine. Well, actually, it goes by several names, including misophonia, Selective Sound Sensitivity Syndrome (4S) or hyperacusis. Basically, it's a hatred of sound, not all sound, just a few sounds in...

Your view

Last week's question: -- What's been the biggest surprise so far in 2012?

Drug lessons aren't working

For a generation, "Just Say No" was the slogan hammered into our heads when it came to drugs.

East and west, not that different

Way back in the dawn of economic prehistory, there was the coin.

More help available for quitters

It has been said many times that there is nothing worse than a reformed smoker.

Election ban past due date

Some laws should be changed because they should never have been made.

Fear, panic, and the new disease

Today we're going to learn about Totally Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (or TDR-TB), but first we're getting a history lesson.

Long past time to ban them all

Statistically speaking, there are 16 people alive today who quite probably would not have been if B.C. hadn't enacted its distracted driving law two years ago.