Opinion

Working with a guide dog gives me the ability to safely and independently get around town. Unfortunately, there are times when my safety is in jeopardy; when the unexpected happens like encountering loose dogs.

I certainly appreciate the columns Todd Whitcombe has been contributing on proportional representation and the responses from some of your readers like John Warner. Mr.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you! I wanted to take a moment to thank each and everyone of you for your continued feedback as well as support.

This is an edition version of an editorial that first appeared in the Dec.

Re: Todd Whitcombe column, Nov. 29. "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary." -- H.L.

Dear Santa, Hi. How are you? I hope you and Mrs. Claus had a very good year. I hope the reindeer are in good health and everything is going well at the North Pole.

Re: Todd Whitcombe's Dec. 12 column. Todd Whitcombe's article disputes the idea that, under the current First Past The Post system, a vote for a losing party is a lost vote. Historically in B.C.

My thanks to Helen Sarrazin for her suggested changes and improvements to the proposal for the possible use of the former Connaught Motor Inn.

In the first genuinely courageous decision I can recall a B.C. government taking in a long time, Premier John Horgan's NDP administration has decided to proceed with the Site C dam.

Premier John Horgan channeled some Donald Trump this week, blasting a media outlet for their stupidity. The difference, of course, is that Horgan is absolutely right. The premier was reacting to the news that the CBC had fired its excellent B.C.