Opinion

Editor: My doors are getting knocked on almost every night with all of these new candidates and I am painfully aware that an election is coming. Is this making me bitter? The other night I had a school trustee candidate come knock on my door.

When I worked at a newspaper in Maple Ridge for 20 years, the No. 1 issue was not housing or poverty or educating children. It was shopping. Don’t laugh – the people who cared about shopping over actual important issues certainly didn’t laugh.

For most, Mondays are an expectedly lousy day of the week. Heart attack rates peak , it’s the furthest day from the anticipated start of the weekend and stress levels are at an all-time high as we prepare for a busy work week.

Finance Minister Carole James released her first true budget update late last week, and, while it was mostly good news, it was quickly overshadowed by some bad news about the kind of issue that helped propel her party into power.

It’s an interesting thing, how moments from decades ago come back to you out of the blue – and how often those moments still resonate with the new self we have become in the intervening years.

If your child was close to graduating high school and we told you that there was more than a 50 per cent chance that they would end up on the streets, in jail or getting addicting to drugs – you’d want to take action, right? You’d be in a panic, righ

As a biracial woman, adoptee and mother of three, I’m no stranger to social biases. So when I went for my long-awaited tattoo to celebrate an upcoming milestone birthday, I knew I’d receive mixed reactions.

Anti-pipeline activists may be doing handsprings over the high court ruling that quashed federal government approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, but they may want to wait a while before popping any champagne corks.

Editor: I am writing today to congratulate the City of New Westminster gardening department for the wonderful work they do year after year and season after season with the planters on the Quay.

Editor: Re: Floralume added to Front Street staircase , Record , Aug. 16 I see the $70,000 was well-spent dressing up the abhorrent Front Street emergency escape stairwell.