Opinion

Dear Editor: Irony: Your part-time school has a yearly surplus that for years has helped in funding a small deep-in-the-red school in your district, and when that school becomes so unviable that it must be closed and your school relocates to its old

Lost in the increasingly bitter fight between the B.C. government and the B.C. Teachers’ Federation is the fact that a genuine crisis seems to be developing in many classrooms around the province.

It was another sad day for Canadian democracy when Bill C-24 became law this week. The Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act does nothing of the sort.

Dear Editor: I admire Fraser Brandon and the students for standing up for what they believe regardless of what it might cost.

Dear Editor: We await the decision by Port Metro Vancouver on the application by Fraser Surrey Docks to install a coal transfer station on the Fraser River.

Dear Editor: I'd like to congratulate Jordan Bateman of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation on his excellent opinion piece of June 20 (Simple math for B.C.

Premier Christy Clark and the B.C. Liberals defend their "no new money" tactic when negotiating with government employees as their "means" to the balanced budget "end.

After more than a year of scandal and outrage over abuses of the Temporary Foreign Workers Program, the Tories have changed the rules to better protect Canadians and the foreign workers themselves.

Dear Editor: Re: New West prohibits backyard campfires, The Record online, June 11.

Dear Editor: I wanted to share with your readers how great the New Westminster Secondary Senior Jazz Band sounds! The band played Sunday at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival.