Opinion

At a time when the B.C. government is examining every nook and cranny to find excess spending to cut from its annual budgets, it's to be expected that some provincial programs will lose funding.

When you work in a school, goodbyes are expected.

Dear Editor: Re: Chief Skugaid should remain on Fraser, Letters to the editor, July 17.

Dear Editor: Today's weak labour market for youth is not only hurting young Canadians. It's also taking a financial toll on their middle-class parents. There are still 200,000 fewer jobs for young Canadians than before the recession.

For some reason, it's easier to think about helping the hungry at Christmas than in the heat of July. But people who live on the razor's edge of poverty are in need of food all year long, just like the rest of us.

Dear Editor: You may not have to turn your head to see those electronic billboards, they are so in your face. But you do have to focus your eyes to read the print.

Dear Editor: Re: Mature evergreen massacred, Letters to the editor, The Record, July 5.

The summer legislative session is now half over, so it's time for some observations and thoughts about what we've seen so far in the house: ?The multitude of new faces around the legislature has changed the atmosphere for the better.

Dear Editor: I am writing this letter in support of the Chief Skugaid boat and keeping its moorage in the Fraser River at New Westminster.

Dear Editor: Re: Minter Garden set to close, The Record, July 10 Letter writer L. Luyten, unfortunately, is misinformed about the hanging baskets along Sixth Street in Uptown.