Opinion/Letters to the Editor

Most commemorative benches, picnic tables and other pieces of public furniture are dedicated to people only after they’re gone. Most are in loving memory of the dearly departed, not the happily here.

If you look it up today, you will find that Tamara Vrooman became CEO at YVR on Canada Day in 2020. But it wasn’t the YVR we knew. And she couldn’t be the CEO we knew, even the CEO that she knew.

For most new premiers, their swearing-in day is a leisurely victory lap. Typically, they pose for the cameras, introduce their new cabinet and pat themselves on the back for winning an election or leadership race.

Holocaust survivor and witness Elie Wiesel said, “In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word. We are all partners in a quest.”

More on economic development and less on administration was the most popular choice from respondents.

Nearly half of respondents want rules preventing price gouging.

The spirit of generosity, good will and optimism never gets old and is something that serves us well every day of the year.

If there is no competition, efficiency will only pad the pockets of the billionaires and lead to these obscene corporate profits we are seeing.

I have seen both alternatives in action, first as a common soldier and then as a Canadian prison guard. Believe me, the military is the better choice.