Opinion

Dear Editor: Re: Don’t panic about Thrifty’s, Letters to the editor, The Record , Nov. 15. Ed Sadowski comments last week in The Record that we should not panic about the potential closing of the Thrifty’s in Sapperton.

The passing last week of a former B.C. labour leader was a reminder of how much both the labour movement and the so-called “political left” have changed in this province.

Right about the time you thought you couldn’t get more disillusioned about the Red Chamber, it is revealed that nearly half of Canada’s senators are moonlighting – and these aren’t minimum-wage jobs.

Who knew? Count 'em all up, and B.C. has 1,660 elected officials sitting on 250 local councils and school boards across the province. That works out to one for every 2,000 registered voters. It's also a lot of paycheques.

Dear Editor: It has been said that music soothes the savage beast and, as American composer Oscar Hammerstein is quoted in the musical Oklahoma, "All the sounds of the earth are like music.

Dear Editor: Re: What will replace Thrifty's?, The Record, Oct 25. As much as I regret the closing of Thrifty's in Sapperton, let's not panic.

Dear Editor: For far too long I had believed that Keith Baldrey had missed his date with destiny, but I am beginning to think that he has now, finally, found his pace.

It was a tense night at last Tuesday’s board of education committee meeting, where the two trustee camps – Voice New Westminster and labour-endorsed trustees – disagreed on whether to bring in a consultant to help move along the district’s strategic

Last Tuesday afternoon, B.C. Premier Christy Clark and Alberta Premier Alison Redford got down to some serious business of smiling for the cameras. Previously, Clark had famously said that no pipelines would even be considered in B.C.

The notion that aboriginal communities are like black holes when it comes to government funding was strengthened considerably with the release of the latest scathing report by B.C.'s Children and Youth Representative.