Opinion

Dear Editor: Transit should operate on a for profit basis and its prices should closely reflect market forces - even if it means that transit fares increase.

One has to feel for Premier Christy Clark, no matter what one's political affiliations may be. In one week she was faced with a former Liberal MLA, John van Dongen, yet again, demanding an investigation into the 2003 sale of B.C.

Dear Editor: Re: Bullying and intimidation, Letters to the Editor, The Record, Nov. 9. Mayor Wayne Wright's disgraceful attitude toward those that question and challenge him is well known.

Every once in a while, governments do something right. And any time they do something that fights cancer, it's got to be right.

Dear Editor: I spent the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month at home on Remembrance Day. I thought of when I was a kid during the war, when we lived in West Vancouver.

Dear Editor: Re: Extreme weather shelter moves to Cliff Block, The Record, Nov. 7. I understand from the story that some of the residents across the street from the Cliff Block, represented by Ms.

For a glimpse of how manipulative and detached from reality many B.C. Liberals have become, one needs to look no further than a three-page memo written by party insiders that deals with the future of Burnaby Hospital.

DEAR EDITOR: In the early 1970s, when teacher-initiated corporal punishment was in the process of gradually being phased out, I endured the most formidable, frightening bully of my life - my Grade 2 teacher.

More than any other province, British Columbia should be demanding a detailed analysis and full discussion of provisions in a proposed "investment" treaty that has already been signed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

DEAR EDITOR: Re: Comments from Mayor Wayne Wright, The New New Westminster, BCBusiness Magazine October 2012.