Opinion

The proverbial ping-pong pundit game provided the usual fare after the Liberals tabled their budget. NDP operatives slammed the 2.6 per cent increase in health-care spending, insisting it was a cut.

Dear Editor: Re: Arts council looks to enhance streets, The Record, Feb. 15.

Dear Editor: Re: Unfair shot at NDP candidate, Letters, The Record, Feb. 13.

We all know housing prices have gone way up compared to a generation ago. This is especially true in B.C.'s Lower Mainland - now the most expensive place to live on the continent.

Dear Editor: British Columbians shouldn't be surprised the B.C. NDP's first campaign promise is to throw money at an issue to make it go away.

Dear Editor: Re: Panhandling out of control in city's business district, Letters, The Record, Feb. 13. Panhandling does seem to be getting out of hand in our lovely, quiet city.

Dear Editor: Re: City plan for dock resurfaces, The Record, Feb. 13. History repeats itself in the Royal City.

Last week, the federal Conservatives moved in a direction Canadians have yet to see them go - backwards. The government announced it would kill its much-reviled Bill C-30, better known as the Internet surveillance bill.

It seems to be very fashionable these days for folks to be opposed to all kinds of things, from pipelines to coal exports to extracting natural gas.

Dear Editor: Re: Support Clark in leading B.C., Letters, The Record, Feb. 8. I'm afraid that politics in B.C. tends to be a little deeper and a little messier than Diane Walters makes it out to be.