Opinion

Dear Editor: Re: Council debates how to handle laneway housing, The Record, Jan. 17. Your recent article on laneway housing being discussed at council was both surprising and distressing, to say the least.

Dear Editor: Despite considerable effort to find merit in the comments of Hildegard Bechler in The Record (Incinerator creates toxic mess for region, Letters to the editor, Jan. 14), regarding energy from waste, the task is fruitless.

OK, I confess, I am currently performing an experiment. I'm putting up two blog posts today: one on the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra 's New Music Festival, and one on the Vancouver auditions for The Bachelor Canada .

The Bachelor Canada is back, and if you're looking for love, then it's looking for you. City TV is hitting the road to hold casting calls across the country in search of one lucky bachelor and 25 bachelorettes for Season 2 of The Bachelor Canada.

Concerned New Westminster Secondary School parents are encouraged to attend the school's PAC meeting tonight to learn more about budget cuts at the school. The meeting is being held tonight at NWSS in the library at 7 p.m.

There you are. A margarita in one hand, the company cellphone in the other, sand between your toes on a Mexican beach.

We appreciate the chance to respond to the union members' op-ed on coal exports (Coal is critical to B.C. economy, Opinion, The Record, Jan. 10) as it provides an opportunity to clear up misunderstandings circulated by the coal lobby.

It was September 2010 and city council chambers were overflowing - for good reason. The city of New Westminster became the first municipality in Canada to formally apologize for its discriminatory actions toward Chinese Canadians in the past.

As the clock ticks ever closer to the day the federal government decides whether to give the Northern Gateway pipeline project final approval, everything Prime Minister Stephen Harper has to say about the subject will increasingly be analyzed to the

Dear Editor: A week ago I went outside to pick up the latest copy of The Record left on my front porch and noticed the title of the cover story (Christian upset over billboard, Jan. 3).