Opinion

Slice of Life

It must be nice to live in a world where a 28 per cent price increase, even factored over five years, can be imposed without worrying about your customers. In the real world, such an increase would have to come with more stuff and better service.

This is a letter of thanks again this year to a P.G. taxi driver, who drove me to the Remembrance Day service a the Civic Centre. He didn't charge me, in fact he wouldn't even allow me to tip him for a cup of coffee.

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When future historians look back on the demise of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the date Nov. 26, 2013 will loom large. That's the day the CBC lost Hockey Night In Canada. On the surface, it doesn't look so bad.

Seniors' Scene

Tomorrow, my American and America-based family members will be breaking bread and carving turkey in celebration of Thanksgiving (also known as the day before Black Friday).

Regarding councillors wringing hands over parking increase decision. Seriously council, you expect us to believe that you made a decision to increase city parking rates by 50 per cent to 80 per cent and did not think this would have an impact.

The Vancouver Observer reported last week that senior officials from the Department of National Defence, the RCMP, the National Energy Board and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the national spy agency, have been holding regular meetings w

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