Opinion

Few issues are as challenging for the New Democratic Party than energy-related ones, and proof of that can be seen in two recent moves by the party both here in B.C. and right next door in Alberta.

Canada’s commitment to bring in 25,000 Syrian refugees should make us all proud. Will it be a completely smooth undertaking? Probably not. Change seldom is. But not only is it the right thing to do, it proves that we do learn from history’s lessons.

Dear Editor For more than 20 years, my wife and I have been attending Remembrance Day services at the Royal Westminster Regiment Armories in New Westminster, right above city hall.

Dear Editor A beautiful day, a huge crowd and a whole lot of confusion. Maureen Albanese, by email

Dear Editor How can you allow Theresa McManus’ column to be published with the obviously bogus artistic rendering of “what the Front Street Mews will look like when it’s completed in 2016.

The legislature is wrapping up its fall sitting this week, and one side in that conflicted house is leaving with a much bigger smile on their collective faces.

If the little girl on the left looked like the little girl on the right, would you let her in? That’s what I want to say – no, that’s too mild of a word, SCREAM might be better – to all of those people who are popping up on social media, on the radio

Dear Editor, Re: With more cars come more speeders in city, Inbox, New Westminster Record, Oct. 29.

Will British Columbia benefit from what appears to be a remarkably new era of government slowly emerging in Ottawa? There’s every reason to think so, on a number of policy fronts. And in many cases a large amount of federal dollars flowing B.C.

Believing that it had a war-ready population of 20 million citizens in 1749, the government of Sweden conducted the first-ever modern census. Bluntly, leaders discovered they were short by a factor of 10.