Opinion

When the teachers' strike divided the province last summer, everyone in B.C. supported the government - financially, if not philosophically.

A week doesn't go by without a constituent coming to my community office, sending me an email, or phoning in a complaint about the constant traffic congestion that brings our city to a standstill.

What do a recent measles outbreak and climate change have in common? They're both issues involving clear scientific evidence that many people feel free to ignore in favour of their personal belief system.

Dear Editor: The headline "New West Pastors Speak against LGBT Inclusion Policy" (the Record online, Jan. 28) implies that all New Westminster clergy are opposed to the LGBT inclusion policy.

Dear Editor: Re: new school board inclusion policy. What I find disturbing about this change in policy of inclusion is that all lists of inclusion are exclusive; we don't mean to, but invariably someone or some group is always excluded.

Hot on the heels of the latest round of Islamist attacks, this week the federal government introduced yet another anti-terrorism bill.

Re: Shut up about traffic - or move, Letters to the Editor, the Record, Jan. 21. When I moved to Royal Avenue 15-plus years ago, there was a fire station at the corner of Royal Avenue and Eighth Street, and St. Mary's Hospital on Royal Avenue.

A recent dustup on social media between an NDP MLA and B.C.'s lone Green Party MLA provides a few more clues about the apparent shifting political landscape in this province.

Chances are pretty good that local city councillors and city staff are taking a close look at a B.C. Supreme Court decision handed down this week.

By the time I was 12, my family and I could set up a campsite with as much efficiency as a military unit. This involved a slightly competitive effort in which my brothers would race to set up their tent while my sister and I did ours.