Editorials

Nickels and dimes. (File photo: Tom Zytaruk)

OUR VIEW: Minimum wage still minute

Today, June 1, British Columbia’s minimum wage rises to $16.75 per hour from $15.65

  • Jun 1, 2023
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OUR VIEW: Surrey’s elderly residents deserve better

We do not want to be a society that abandons its elderly

  • May 24, 2023
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OUR VIEW: Hey Surrey, renters drive cars too

Once again government puts its boot on the proletariat

  • May 17, 2023
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OUR VIEW: Surrey renters need protection from huge rent increases

Those in positions of authority cannot be allowed the luxury of willful blindness

  • May 10, 2023
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Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke with redacted report on Surrey policing from NDP government. (Photo: Anna Burns)

OUR VIEW: Farnworth fumbled Surrey cops process

Clearly, much of this debacle could have been avoided with a referendum

  • May 3, 2023
Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke with redacted report on Surrey policing from NDP government. (Photo: Anna Burns)
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OUR VIEW: Bale out on Surrey’s HMCS ‘Interpretation’

It’s just not seaworthy policy for public governance

  • Apr 26, 2023
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Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke and B.C. Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth. (File photos)

OUR VIEW: Clarity is required over Surrey policing motion ‘interpretation’

Words matter, and the need for clarity particularly in the theatres of politics and public governance

  • Apr 12, 2023
Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke and B.C. Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth. (File photos)
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OUR VIEW: Tax grabs simply unsustainable

Surrey’s manager of finance says ‘monthly burn rate’ of carrying both Surrey RCMP and Surrey Police Service is about $8M monthly

  • Apr 6, 2023
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OUR VIEW: Confusion driving drivers to distraction

B.C.’s distracted driving laws need clarity

  • Mar 15, 2023
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Log yard at Canfor’s Houston sawmill which is closing in April 2023, idling more than 300 employees and many more in the trucking and logging sectors. (Angelique Houlihan photo/Houston Today)

Houston’s mayor makes pitch for economic assistance

The forestry-dependent community in northwestern B.C. is about to lose its major employer

Log yard at Canfor’s Houston sawmill which is closing in April 2023, idling more than 300 employees and many more in the trucking and logging sectors. (Angelique Houlihan photo/Houston Today)
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OUR VIEW: Surrey taxpayers clearly at their limit

Canadian politicians have by and large proven themselves to be lousy stewards of our money

  • Mar 8, 2023
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OUR VIEW: We pay so much for so little

Who among us can’t relate to the frustration expressed by Popeye, who says, ‘That’s all I can stands, I can’t stands no more’

  • Feb 22, 2023
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OUR VIEW: Surplus to the rescue

More reason to be ‘relentlessly optimistic?’

  • Feb 9, 2023
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Surrey City Hall. (File photo: Anna Burns)

OUR VIEW: 15 of 16 spots on Surrey committees is more of the same

Surrey Connect’s grip on 15 of 16 appointments to Surrey’s Select Committees of Council supports notion that in politics the more things change, the more they stay the same

  • Feb 1, 2023
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OUR VIEW: Cheers to moderation, Surrey

Canada’s latest guide on alcohol and health suggests more than 6 alcoholic beverages per week puts health at risk

  • Jan 18, 2023
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B.C. Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth speaks during a news conference in Vancouver on April 11, 2022. British Columbia is introducing a two-tiered heat alert and response system to help people and communities stay safe this summer when temperatures rise. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

OUR VIEW: Farnworth, consistency, and Surrey’s policing furor

Have B.C.’s Public Safety Minister and the NDP painted themselves into a corner?

  • Dec 14, 2022
B.C. Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth speaks during a news conference in Vancouver on April 11, 2022. British Columbia is introducing a two-tiered heat alert and response system to help people and communities stay safe this summer when temperatures rise. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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OUR VIEW: Living wages are a must

Average workers need pay increases to help offset inflation

  • Dec 7, 2022
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Surrey mayor-elect Brenda Locke and Surrey Police Service Chief Constable Norm Lipinski. (File photos)

OUR VIEW: So much for local control of Surrey policing

City council and the Surrey Police Board need telescopes to see eye to eye

  • Nov 17, 2022
Surrey mayor-elect Brenda Locke and Surrey Police Service Chief Constable Norm Lipinski. (File photos)
Surrey City Hall. (Photo by Anna Burns/Surrey Now-Leader)

OUR VIEW: Now it’s up to you, Surrey

It’s up to you, and people like you, to build the best council and school board available to you

  • Oct 14, 2022
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OUR VIEW: Wise Surrey owls pay attention to policy prior to voting

Big projects, if they ever do come to fruition, are not freebies

  • Sep 21, 2022
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