UPDATED 05/09/10 – COMMENTS RECEIVED – By Mike Archer. Like free Olympics tickets, or tickets to a Heat Game, round trip excursions like the one Mayor Peary and his entourage just took to Fukagawa, Japan, cost taxpayers money. Do we get any bang for those bucks? Read the full story

An issue that affects all Fraser Valley communities – development vs farmland – drew a big yawn this week in Langley Township. Despite efforts by a variety of farm groups only 300 people turned up for a meeting on the use of agricultural land.[Click On image For Full Story] Read the full story

Dear Patricia Ross (FVRD Chair) and Fraser Valley Regional District Board of Directors: Two months ago I wrote to ask the Fraser Valley Regional District (FVRD) to assure its communities that the upcoming “Public Consultation Phase” forum (October 2010) would be used to reform, amend, and remedy the flawed Aggregate Pilot Project Read the full story

By Walter Neufeld. Open Letter to the Honourable Randy Hawes Minister of State for Mining: Dear Mr. Hawes. Thank you for responding [to my letter]. My letter to you made note of the fact that Solid Rock Aggregates had been operating a gravel mine in non-compliance with Peachland’s local bylaws. Read the full story

By Edward Ngai. In 2001, hundreds of thousands of Filipinos took to the streets of Manila to protest the corruption of then-president Joseph Estrada. The capital paralyzed, citizens peacefully overthrew Estrada in three days.[Click On Image For Full Story] Read the full story

By David Murray. Greg Moore is the Chair of the Metro Vancouver’s Waste Management Committee. He sat down with us for a face-to-face interview on the City’s controversial waste-to-energy proposal that has run into political opposition in the Fraser Valley. [Click On Image For Full Story] Read the full story

Author anonymous. I am the son of a newspaper man. My mother was the daughter of a newspaper man, who was himself the son of a newspaper man. When I was young everyone who worked at the newspaper was a newspaper man or a newspaper woman. “Journalist” was a word you didn’t hear very much. Read the full story

By Rafe Mair. Noted economist Erik Andersen confirms that the government’s private river power policy (IPPs) are having a devastating effect on BC Hydro – the crown jewel of our public companies – which is owned by the citizens of British Columbia. Read the full story

By Mike Archer. Shame on Canadians who hide their racism under the guise of our collective fear of terrorism, worries about the costs to our safety social net, or the costs to our healthcare system of accepting the desperate Tamil refugees who turned up on our shores this week. Read the full story

By Erik Andersen. A report from economist Erik Andersen about the BC government’s energy policy is a devastating critique of what the Campbell government has done with BC Hydro. Read the full story