Opinion

Dear Editor: At first thought, I was split about the May Day debate. I grew up in New West and attended many May Day festivals starting in the ’60s. I have fond memories of being thrilled to spend the day in Queen’s Park to celebrate May Day.

Dear Editor: In discussion with my husband around the debate that continues to surround the May Day event – historical significance and/or colonial insult – I related my own childhood experience.

The B.C. Liberal leadership race is heating up, and although it’s debatable whether the general public is paying much attention to it, the contest is slowly revealing that one particular candidate seems to stand apart from the others.

There’s a rainbow crosswalk in downtown New Westminster. Every year there’s a Pride festival here that celebrates the full diversity of gender identities and sexual orientations.

Dear Editor: I see the celebration of May Day here as adding insult to injury by celebrating our British colonial history while ignoring the suffering and environmental destruction colonialism brought worldwide (disease, slave trade, genocide, opium

Dear Editor: I was at the checkout at London Drugs following a visit to the retinal specialist at Sixth Street in New Westminster, where I found I had left my wallet at home.

The NDP seems hell-bent on ensuring B.C. won’t see the kind of government headed up in the past by such party premiers as Dave Barrett, Mike Harcourt and Glen Clark ever again.

Dear Editor: I would like to set the Record straight regarding a recklessly misleading headline that, intentionally or not, maligns the New Westminster School District and our teachers.

There are a couple of ways to view New Westminster’s decision to look into the possibility of creating a diversity mandate for city committees (see story page 3). One could ask why the heck this hasn’t been done earlier.

Dear Editor: I note with approval your ‘Our View: It’s way past time to ditch this routine’ (the Record , Nov. 16). The one caveat I would propose is that if we ditch time changes bi-annually, we stay on daylight saving time.