Editorials

Our View: Can we have a summer of policies?

Our View: Can we have a summer of policies?

While we’re lazing at the lake or on the beach, we could dig into some serious politics

  • Jul 31, 2019
Our View: Can we have a summer of policies?
Our View: Should we scrap TransLink?

Our View: Should we scrap TransLink?

The local agency needs better funding, or what good is it?

  • Jul 24, 2019
Our View: Should we scrap TransLink?
Our View: Better buses cost money

Our View: Better buses cost money

We desperately need better public transit in Langley. That may mean paying more.

  • Jul 5, 2019
Our View: Better buses cost money
Our View: Warawa’s passing a loss to our community

Our View: Warawa’s passing a loss to our community

The MP exemplified firm belief and fundamental decency in politics

  • Jun 26, 2019
Our View: Warawa’s passing a loss to our community
Last year forest fires caused air quality warnings over Langley and the rest of Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley. (Langley Advance Times files)

Our View: Breathing easier in Langley’s future

Metro Vancouver says the air quality will improve over the next 20 years

  • Jun 7, 2019
Last year forest fires caused air quality warnings over Langley and the rest of Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley. (Langley Advance Times files)
Our View: Quality housing is key

Our View: Quality housing is key

Affordable housing needs to be more than simply cheap

  • May 31, 2019
Our View: Quality housing is key
Our View: Bike, walk, bus, drive

Our View: Bike, walk, bus, drive

Bike to work week doesn’t work for everyone

  • May 29, 2019
Our View: Bike, walk, bus, drive
Our View: Safety first at blacked-out hospital parking lot

Our View: Safety first at blacked-out hospital parking lot

Ensuring the safety of hospital workers and patients is vital

  • May 22, 2019
Our View: Safety first at blacked-out hospital parking lot
Our View: Regulators must find solutions for smells

Our View: Regulators must find solutions for smells

Technology plus policy has helped stamp out nasty smells in the past

  • May 15, 2019
Our View: Regulators must find solutions for smells
Our View: Fake news dangerous, hard to stop

Our View: Fake news dangerous, hard to stop

Canadians are right to be cautious of fake news – but that helps give them the tools to detect it

  • May 10, 2019
Our View: Fake news dangerous, hard to stop
Traffic congestion on Highway One through Langley. The highway will be widened to six lanes to 264th Street by 2025. (Langley Advance Times files)

Our View: Opportunity in highway widening

The wider highway means an easier time for drivers – and opportunities for transit

  • May 1, 2019
Traffic congestion on Highway One through Langley. The highway will be widened to six lanes to 264th Street by 2025. (Langley Advance Times files)
Our View: Retail pot rules needed soon for Langley

Our View: Retail pot rules needed soon for Langley

Public input will help create some certainty for our marijuana future

  • Apr 25, 2019
Our View: Retail pot rules needed soon for Langley
Our View: Bus funding badly needed

Our View: Bus funding badly needed

It’s not just SkyTrain, it’s the whole transit system that needs funding

  • Apr 12, 2019
Our View: Bus funding badly needed
Our View: Trees’ value debated

Our View: Trees’ value debated

Township of Langley needs a tree protection bylaw… but one that is reasonable

  • Apr 5, 2019
Our View: Trees’ value debated
An ICBC distracted driving simulator in Langley. Langley Advance Times files

Our View: ICBC costs not cut and dried

Going to private insurance would mean higher taxes to pay for other services

  • Apr 3, 2019
An ICBC distracted driving simulator in Langley. Langley Advance Times files
Our View: Seat belts save lives, so why not for school children?

Our View: Seat belts save lives, so why not for school children?

A drive to put seat belts on school buses seems an obvious step.

Our View: Seat belts save lives, so why not for school children?

Our Views: Here’s hoping they mean it

For Langley dairy, poultry, and egg farmers, it sounded like potentially good…

  • Mar 22, 2019
Our View: Corruption all too common in Canada

Our View: Corruption all too common in Canada

SNC-Lavalin’s woes are far from the only example of alleged corruption and bribery

Our View: Corruption all too common in Canada
Our View: Vaccinations are not just about you

Our View: Vaccinations are not just about you

Getting vaccinated protects others as well.

  • Feb 27, 2019
Our View: Vaccinations are not just about you
Our View: Carbon tax changes good for B.C.

Our View: Carbon tax changes good for B.C.

Using tax money to fund green projects is a good move by the government.

  • Feb 21, 2019
Our View: Carbon tax changes good for B.C.
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