Opinion

Dear Editor: It's hard not to be surprised by the negative response to the idea of building a footbridge connecting downtown to Queensborough.

As we prepare for another Remembrance Day, the immensity of veterans' actions endures.

Dear Editor: The cost of exporting oil, gas and coal is exorbitant, in taxpayer and shareholder dollars. Pipelines, rail, tankers, refineries, ports, on both sides of the Pacific - fossil fuels to build and operate such systems are incalculable.

For many years, there has been much discussion about the need for our school board to develop a strategic plan.

By now, every reporter and editor in the province has likely gotten into at least one good, rip-roaring debate about journalistic ethics - all stemming from the now-infamous Huffington Post blog post by Carol Todd.

The premier of China, Li Keqiang, said it like this: "It is no good to be poor in a beautiful environment, nor is it any good to be well-off and to live with the consequences of environmental degradation.

Re: What does future hold for Hyack?, The Record, Oct. 25. Just when you thought that our long civic nightmare was over, the pot gets stirred once again.

Dear Editor: Re: City jumps into Hyack mess, The Record, Oct. 30.

Governments like to release bad news on Fridays, and a prime example of that was last week's announcement that the Fraser Health Authority was in trouble. Of course, the official news release didn't actually frame it in those words.

Job crunch in city hall. That was the headline of a special report in The Record back on May 5, 2007, when staff vacancies in the planning department had reached record highs.