Opinion

Saturday was one of those days that left me oddly discontented.

There we all are, staring raptly into the heavens, transfixed by the supermoon-lunar eclipse, and voraciously reading the latest news about the discovery of water on Mars.

For a party that has relatively little public support, the Green Party is showing once again it can get a disproportionately large number of people angry about its very existence.

Dear Editor I enjoy edgy editorial cartoons as much as the next person, but, wow, the Christy Clark “What she says, What we hear” catfight cartoon the other day was just depressing.

Dear Editor: If ISIS has “clearly declared Canada as a target for terrorism,” as Conservatives claim, it is because Stephen Harper is bombing Syria.

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You know these creatures. They’re small, adorable bundles of amazing – and the most exhausting, exasperating, migraine-inducing species of being you could ever hope to meet. I speak, of course, of The Threenager. I have one in my house now.

What was not considered even a remote possibility by many just a few months ago now has to be taken seriously: Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party may yet win this federal election.

Politicians or wannabe politicians aren’t always eager to talk to the media. In fact, some of them will go to extreme measures to avoid interviews or situations where they might face questions. This is not a new phenomenon.

Dear Editor: Re: Will fear mongering win it for him?, Our View, Sept. 16. I realize that your editorials are supposed to be commentaries of events happening in the world.