Opinion

I'd like to express my concern and inconvenience regarding my 5 hours stay yesterday Thursday November 24th 2011 at the Emergency Department in the University Hospital of Northern BC (UHNBC).

RE: John Rustad is trying to limit unions' rights I'd like to thank Ken Fowler for his letter raising issues about my proposed bill "Workers' Dues Transparency and Rights Act." Unfortunately Mr. Fowler's comments were inaccurate.

Re: Paul Willcocks' Nov.26th column "Failing Children left in poverty." No one wants to see a child living in poverty. It is an issue that affects all of us and belongs to all of us.

Recently in Langley there has been a court case on whether or not we should allow euthanasia. For the benefit of society I believe that we should not change the current laws. Before I go on, I should make clear what euthanasia is and is not.

My two worst pet peeves #1 Lack of snow removal year after year. This is such a huge safety feature. So I feel the need to write in again. It took you seven days to clean our street and some streets still are not cleaned.

BCTF president Susan Lambert has recently been quoted saying "Clearly the Liberals believe teachers' rights to bargain and students' rights to quality classroom conditions must be sacrificed to management's right to reduce thousands of teaching posit

Here we go again, more water and sewer hikes. I thought we had three years of hikes under the old mayor for all the same reasons. I never heard once Mayor Green saying anything about hikes, only 10 per cent reductions in all departments.

I would like to thank the teachers for doing a great job during these negotiations with the Province. Where my son goes to school there is really no way you can tell there is job action going on.

Further to your article of December 7, 2011 entitled "First Nations asks UN to check if Ottawa meets legal obligations". Since becoming government the Harper administration has provided 90 million dollars in funding to the Attawapiskat community.

Last night I went to my first and last Timberwolves basketball game up at UNBC. There were about 10 natives banging on their drums for the entire game, what a racket.