Opinion

Dear Editor: Re: ‘Balanced’ books come with a cost, Letters to the Editor, June 27, Burnaby NOW. It really annoys me when people like Larry Ryan give their opinion and states that it is wrong for the B.C.

To the surprise of no one, Transportation Minister Todd Stone has told the Lower Mainland’s mayors their transit plan is a non-starter if it means dipping into the province’s carbon tax to pay for it.

Dear Editor: I was walking in Uptown New Westminster on Sunday. Drivers making turns appear to be impatient with pedestrians.

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.