Opinion/Letters to the Editor

I thought our various levels of government would realize their role is not to rule us.

Milton Mahoney needed just 293 votes to defeat four other candidates.

Best of luck to the few businesses that are struggling to make a living in that area.

What would come next? Extra taxes on patients who present to hospitals with lung cancer if they smoke? Or taxes on the overweight with heart disease?

While his campaign against discrimination in South Africa was laudable, much of the media glossed over a dark aspect of Tutu’s legacy: his anti-Israel agenda.

Looking back on numerous recordings of Bishop Tutu’s speeches and interviews, it is difficult to find anything hostile, violent, prejudicial or discriminatory in any of his words, even when he challenged people and institutions. 

Trying to improve affordability with tax hikes is like trying to boil water with your freezer.

Our goal is to find solutions that allow us to continue life [as it is] today. And, of course, you can ask, ‘Can’t we have both?’ But the uncomfortable truth is that we have left it too late for that.

At her core Valerie was quite at ease being a very B.C. gal, a fundamentally decent soul very much grounded here.