Opinion

Dear Editor: I recently read that once again, as it has been year after year after year, two labour-endorsed trustees will occupy the positions of chair and vice-chair on the New Westminster School Board.

If you are reading this, chances are the first Mayan calendar prediction for the end of the world was wrong. Now, we are still faced with the backup date of Dec. 25, but we suspect that on Dec.

Dear Editor: Your busy readers, rushing around between jobs, family, holiday events, and shopping up to our socio-corporate expectations, probably won't have time to read this. Too bad.

Dear Editor: As I rush to finish my last holiday preparations, I am struck by how many people in New Westminster are out there making a special effort to take care of people this time of year.

The new Port Mann Bridge is the largest and most expensive bridge in Canada. It was built in conjunction with the $1 billion (and rising) South Fraser Perimeter Road, a 37 kilometre goods movement corridor along the south side of the Fraser river.

Dear Editor: The Government of B.C. is spending millions of dollars of taxpayers' money on recent excessive television ads which supposedly support the premise that British Columbia is forging ahead with job creation.

The B.C. Liberals keep using your money to tell you what a great job they're doing managing the economy and creating jobs, but evidence keeps mounting that their claim to being financial wizards is questionable at best. First the B.C.

Dear Editor: I just want to remind Bob Rennie and the council that without the past, there is no present and no future.

Dear Editor: Now that our federal government's plan to buy a $45 billion clutch of F-35 fighter jets has crash landed and we're back at square one, it's time to unveil my super plan: Balloons.

Real estate guru Bob Rennie suggested 'rebranding' New Westminster recently and revived the age-old city debate.