Opinion

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.

I am currently living in Asia, but spent the first 24 years of my life as a proud resident of New Westminster and return there regularly to visit my parents.

The federal government had a fairly large presence in B.C. last week, and no doubt Premier John Horgan hopes he sees many more visits from his federal counterparts, especially if they bring large bags of cash.

Dear Editor: An open letter to Julie Payette, Governor General of Canada: While not a supporter of Canada’s connection to English royalty, I wish to express my great satisfaction in having a rational, science-affirming, woo-rejecting person in the po

Dear Editor: I was intrigued and pleased to read about “reasonable heritage” at work in the“Six-storey plan for eatery site” in the Oct. 26 edition of the Record for the former La Rustica and La Spaghetteria site.

Dear Editor: What the ---- is happening to our city? The other night I drove down Columbia, and it looked so pretty, but I thought, “There is nothing here.

Re: Taking a closer look at ‘our’ history, Our View, Oct. 27. After reading your newspaper’s passionate editorial advocating the excision of any part of our past we find distasteful by simply renaming it, I would like to suggest a few more changes.

It is 9 a.m. in B.C. while we pen this editorial. But it’s 10 a.m. in this newsroom. Well, to be clear, the clock in the newsroom says it’s 10 a.m. We have yet to turn back the newsroom clock.

There is a runaway freight train barrelling down the track at all provincial governments, and the young B.C. NDP government is no exception to its impact.