Opinion

Dear Editor, It’s been a year since the longest federal election campaign in modern Canadian history, and many campaign promises are slowly taking shape.

The recent gathering of provincial politicians - mostly municipal, but also provincial and some federal - in the capital provided ample evidence of the Great Divide that is deepening in this province.

This dates us, but the Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, presidential debate on Monday reminds us of the Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs tennis match in 1973.

Dear Mr. Trump: Today I must extend my personal thanks to you. Yes, you read that right.

Dear Editor I have no regular Internet connection. I prefer regular postal delivery. I don’t do any personal business online or I don’t deal with them. Save our postal system and supplement it to expand services. Allan Quon, New Westminster

Dear Editor Re: It’s time for a ‘food bank tax’ in Canada, Our View, the Record , Sept. 22. I have supported the food bank for most of my working life. I am now in a position that I can and do generously support it.

It’s been a week of spectacle on both sides of the 49th parallel – and that spectacle has gone a long way to driving home the differences in the two countries that share our long and undefended border.

Strength doesn’t always look like a muscled Atlas, holding up the globe.

I was a bit taken aback when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau drew the loudest roar from the crowd of any guest when he was introduced at the B.C. legislature on the weekend along with the visiting royal couple, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

Is it a coincidence that B.C. is seeing more families and seniors depending on food banks to survive and that the province’s minimum wage is $10.