Opinion

Re: "Yes, yes oh yes" It's been said that the HST is terrific tax policy and terrible politics. Bang on. Your editorial (July 14)speaks to this. It's all about the emotional politics, while the rational policy of the HST gets left in the lurch.

Re: Lotto licences pulled. I like a good sting with criminals finishing up doing time. But if what Arthur Williams wrote is correct, (and Arthur's good) then this series of actions by a quasi-government body is outrageous.

It's back to September, the original date before they tried to 'improve' the process

Wow, what a surprise, the city has done it again. As I read the paper Friday morning I found it almost humorous that the city had awarded the design contract for the Kin Center project to PBK Architects.

To mayor and council: For a new RCMP building, the reverse petition was used (sorry, the Alternative Approval Process sounds so much better). The 2015 Winter Games will cost an additional $15 million plus.

Book review

Spirituality

On the hook

As a small boy I had great admiration and confidence in my big brother. I freely agreed to let him take apart my tricycle so he could use the front wheel as part of a unicycle he was building.

In the last episode of Caribou Joe and the Building of the Grand Truck Pacific, Joe awakens in the Wall brothers' shack after falling off the railroad tracks in a velocipede. The fellow was sitting on the edge of the wooden bunk bed where Joe lay.