Opinion

Anyone who knows me will know that when a good debate breaks out on a topic near and dear to my heart, I can’t resist putting in my two cents.

The truth will set you free. Unfortunately, as poetic as that expression is, it is useless without understanding and action.

Waiting for the liquefied natural gas industry to finally set up shop in B.C. has been like watching an excruciatingly slowly played football game where the score has remained 0-0 since the opening kickoff.

Dear Editor: I read with bemusement the letter from Cheryl Tainsh in the June 10 issue.

I’m a big believer in the power of social media as a force for good. Time and again, in both my own personal life and in the wider world around me, I’ve seen the ways in which it can help serve to create community and unite people in new ways.

We can’t remember the last time we gushed over a bureaucrat. But it was a long, long time ago.

Eventually, in the life of a government, arrogance and cynicism seem to inevitably find their way into the core of its existence. After 15 years in power, we may be witnessing that with the B.C.

Dear Editor I read with bemusement Casey Prigge’s letter (Greenway problem poses safety concern, New Westminster Record June 3, 2015) regarding the poor state of the Central Valley cycle route between Cumberland and Debeck Street on Columbia.

Dear Editor The Bosa project began last week with eight hours of daily pile driving shaking the buildings on Quayside Drive, starting at 7:30 a.m. and ending at 4:30 p.m. construction noise is going to go on for three years.

Dear Editor I had visitors for a week from Ottawa, and sadly they did not know what the “black blur” was by the old railway station.