Opinion

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.

Dear Editor The latest U.S. jobs report showed Americans added 173,000 jobs in August and pushed the U.S. unemployment rate down to 5.1 per cent, its lowest level since March 2008.

The more I read about how this election is shaping up to be a real, honest-to-goodness three-way race, the more I get annoyed.