Opinion

Bruce Strachan Right Side Up Can Stephen Harper count? More critically, can he count to 155, the number of seats required to eke out at least a numerical majority in the 308-seat House of Commons? It's questionable.

I am responding to Monday's article about the wage disparity between male and female professors in B.C.'s universities.

Slightly Skewed Jack Knox "So," I said, nodding at the story in the paper, "that traffic jam in China has finally eased." She sipped her morning coffee. "Ten thousand vehicles, stopped dead on the freeway for 10 days or more.

It seems many groups want including the city want the long-form census compulsory because they say if it was voluntary the quality of information would be no good. I dispute that argument on two points.

While traveling home from Alaska to Montana we were in British Columbia earlier this month when we had two of three flat tires on our fifth-wheel travel trailer. On Aug.

All these forest fires, and what does our government do? We in B.C. as the average worker needs a ticket for this or that. Fighting forest fires is not rocket science, yet we need a ticket.

I can't believe the chain of events that have transpired over the last couple of years. It started with the school district telling a school of 50 kids that they needed to raise $30,000 for a new playground that our kids could not do without.

When hell freezes over. B.C. Chamber of Commerce head John Winter believes that will be the day the anti-HST forces will win their fight to repeal the harmonized sales tax. Winter had nothing but cold comfort for residents of B.C.

Bruce Strachan Right Side Up It's time Gordon Campbell bit the harmonized sales tax bullet, showed some political courage and let the HST debate proceed to the B.C. legislature for a full-blown debate.

I realize that being "Gunned down" in the streets is a big news story and worthy of the front page coverage that it received.