Opinion

Editor: It would be a well deserved slap in the face for Canada as a nation if the concerns of Leilani Farha, UN rapporteur on adequate housing, finds Canada in violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, especially since

Taxpayers have a message for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “Mr. Trudeau, tear down this house!” The house in question is a century-and-a-half old, and hasn’t been renovated in decades.

If you or any of your friends are new parents, perennially poo-covered, sleep-deprived and spit-upon, please remember this one thing: it gets easier.

For the past couple of years, it has been practically impossible to tune out the debate over the relationship between B.C. and Alberta. While opinions about the eventual conclusion of the Kinder Morgan TransMountain pipeline expansion changed in B.C.

Editor: Re: Hong Kong hot potato landing squarely in British Columbia's lap, by Kirk LaPointe Freedom is more important than money, plain and simple. Would you like to live under China's repressive and authoritarian regime? Probably not.

Judging from the intense media coverage and savage partisan commentary flowing from the SNC-Lavalin scandal, you would think the federal Liberals are politically dead as a doornail.

Editor: It really shouldn’t surprise me, given council’s complete lack of fiscal responsibility, but I really have to marvel at the waste being touted as cost savings in regards to the closing of the recycling depot.

Editor: I feel I have to weigh in on the topic of moving our recycling depot to the United Boulevard location in Coquitlam. I am certainly not in favour of this move despite the spin the city council is taking on the move.

Editor: The purpose of this letter is to encourage 80-year-olds and over to use every legal means at their disposal to contravene the methods used by the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General to test drivers over the age of 80 years.

I’ll never forget the first time my family went on a trip abroad - or more specifically, the journey to get to our final destination.