Opinion

Canada’s premiers have been tearing their hair out about Ottawa’s declining share in the funding of health budgets

Online poll appeared on the Citizen website from March 21-28.

With a bit over six months left before the Oct. 15 municipal election, now is not the time to decide where to spend this windfall. Now is a great time to put the money into an account where it will accrue a bit of interest and let this be an election issue, a referendum of sorts.

There haven't been major improvements to cycling lanes, repairing sidewalks, or introducing more flashing light crosswalks for pedestrians.

The report suggests that the average home price now $318,530 but this data is already out of date. According to the BC Northern Real Estate Board, the average price of homes sold in February 2022 was $402,128 and looking at the available housing today there is very little under $400,000.

Between the Moccasin Flats fiasco and the gravel mine lawsuit, the city seems unable to get out of legal hot water once it’s jumped in with both feet.

No more logging trucks means no more billions of dollars will be pumped into the local economy. 

We need a mayor and council that recognize that some of the people living on the street were not always addicted to drugs.

Even before last week’s deal between the governing party and New Democrats, surveys showed the parties’ bases would welcome closer co-operation.

Re: " City saw nine toxic drug deaths in January ," March 17 I used to be one of those who, while sympathetic, would look down on those who’d ‘allowed’ themselves to become addicted to alcohol and illicit drugs.