Opinion

I have to take some exception to Todd Whitcombe's myopic view of Canadian politics and the Conservative government. In his column in The Citizen on Sept.

A few days ago a boy who was about 11 years-old approached me as sat outside Barkerville's St. George Hotel. "Excuse me," he said. "Is it true that the people from your time always wear black when someone dies? My teacher said you do.

What the hell's the matter with the person that made the decision to put that poor dying dog on the front page? You have upset many people by doing such a thoughtless act.

When I read last Friday's Citizen with "Disposal of the water fluoridation to cost city $200K, report says" story, I almost laughed, however it is not funny. I quote: "It will cost $140,000 to remove the 9,000 litres in the holding tanks.

There's something missing from the B.C. economic picture. A quarterly report released Tuesday shows enough generally positive indicators that the government continues to plan balanced budgets for the next three years.

Students of economic history learn about tulips.

Three centuries ago, the mathematician Blaise Pascal came up with an argument in favour of believing in the existence of God.

Fifteen years ago we hired a man to come in with a Cat to help us with some landscaping. An acre of dirt and a couple of big machines turned our little plot in to a 10,000 square foot sandbox for a few days.

Not all the gears mesh smoothly when they fire up the Elections Canada machine every few years. A Pender Island couple trekked all the way to Saanichton to vote a couple of weeks ago, but couldn't find the returning office.

Recent comments on the election campaign deserve some rebuttal. As a 45-year Citizen reader, I have found that Neil Godbout's editorials are very balanced, much better than previous editors. Ted Perry's Pravda titled letter (Sept.