Opinion

Dear Editor: Re: Downtown needs more trees, Letters to the editor, The Record, Oct. 1.

As cases involving government misconduct go, the one concerning the firing of seven B.C. Health Ministry employees is a particularly shabby one.

Dear Editor: Mayor Wright said that the reaction to the new Wait For Me Daddy sculpture would be one of surprise, awe, and wow. I agree, but not in a positive way. My thoughts are "Wow, that really is out of place and an eyesore.

As we launch our #whyIvote campaign to try and get more eligible voters engaged in the Nov.

Dear Editor: I have been going to the Queen's Park dog park since it was established. Often I go daily with my two dogs, one big and one small. Yesterday there were three official-looking people with clipboards there when I arrived.

In a column in early August, we talked of cemeteries and favourite sites we have visited. Sometimes they stand out because of the physical location, fascinating markers, interesting stories, or maybe even the effort it takes to find them.

Dear Editor: An open letter to the mayor: Recently I spent an hour or so walking around our downtown neighbourhood looking for trees - or especially the absence of trees. There are probably fewer trees downtown now than there were 11 years ago.

It was the exchange that launched a thousand face palms: NDP leader Tom Mulcair questioning Conservative MP Paul Calandra last week on the government's plan for Canada in Iraq.

A number of key First Nations leaders have adroitly realized the best way to kill the Site C dam project may be to hitch their potential support for building LNG pipelines to the dam never being built.

With the recent teachers' strike now behind us, many parents in New Westminster are turning their minds back to the important need for a new high school in our community.