Opinion

I was still feeling emotional this morning, so I did what I always do: I wrote. This time, though, it wasn't really meant to be a blog post. It was a simple thank-you letter to Hillary Rodham Clinton for her groundbreaking campaign.

Every Remembrance Day is a poignant reminder that the freedoms we take for granted today were bought with many lives and much blood, sweat and tears.

This is not okay. It’s all so very, very not okay that it feels too early to write anything at all.

Dear Editor: Last week the Record featured a number of letters on urban transportation, and I was particularly empathetic toward concerns about pedestrian safety and access to Queensborough.

If you had asked me, before I had children, what kind of girl I would like to end up raising, I would probably have said a lot of things.

Kelly Slade-Kerr, a New Westminster school trustee, gingerly waded into the Vancouver School Board mess last week.

Dear Editor: New Westminster is a beautiful place, full of unique and wonderful things. But it has one feature that isn’t so good. It is unsafe for pedestrians.

Dear Editor: Credit and kudos to those members of our city council who are prepared to rethink the Q2Q crossing options in light of recent cost estimates for the bridge.

Dear Editor: Living at the north end of the Pattullo Bridge in Victoria Hill for the past 11 years, I have crossed it hundreds of times and also went through the frustrating lane closures/repairs this past summer.

What could turn out to be one of the defining issues in the upcoming provincial election is coming into view, and it's not one of the usual topics.