Opinion/Letters to the Editor

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.

It is clear that the anti-HST movement has proven troublesome to the Liberals and their corporate friends. First the Liberals waited until after the polls closed in the last election to let the voting public know they would be introducing the HST.

The front page of the Aug. 16 Citizen was truly in the worst taste. Photos that graphic have no place for the public to see. Do you not think think friends and family of a murder victim should be spared the horrible sights you displayed.

I fully support The Citizen's publication of the picture of a gunned down criminal for one main reason.