Opinion

Last week The Globe and Mail did several stories on Premier Christy Clark and her private fundraising dinners. These are the events where folks pay $10,000 or more to break bread and get up close and personal with our premier.

Dear Editor Re: Water meters pondered, the Record , Feb. 6. Water meters? Really? Someone needs to explain why we need water metering in a rain forest.

Dear Editor I think the councillors’ wage increases are too high. Councillors’ positions are classified as part-time. (Very part-time – at our recent neighbourhood AGM, no council members attended).

Dear Editor I think we’ve reached the stage in the Q2Q bridge debate where it’s more about ego and power than it is about what’s best for New Westminster, and planning’s presentation of the project as if it were a fait accompli would seem to support

The B.C. NDP always a faces a tough, uphill struggle to get elected to government in this province, and some moves by the federal wing of the NDP this past weekend may make that hill even steeper.

It is hard to believe that poverty and inequality could come to such unconscionable levels in a rich country like Canada. It tells us who is running the show or making the decisions for our future, and it's not we, the people.

I attended the Quayside AGM meeting on Jan. 27, 2016. New Westminster Engineering gave a presentation on the proposed pedestrian bridge crossing of the Fraser River (Q2Q).

Could it be true? Forgive us if we have become a tad cynical over the whole replacement high school thing. We’ve seen these pledges before and then watched in disbelief as the years went by.

Dear Editor To follow up with the family buying a house in Queensborough with the promise of a bridge to the Quayside, so was the Port Royal developer advertising a ferry to Quayside.

Dear Editor Re: Bridge was big attraction for this family, New Westminster Record , March 31. sympathize with Mr. Tomkins and his family. When we purchased our condo in 1991 we were promised a ferry service “like Granville island” by our realtor.