Opinion

Re: Residents want to keep dance, Letters to the editor, The Record, Sept. 11. I was just reading the extensive letter by Lisa Graham outlining why the May Day dance is a tradition and why people that want to end it have ulterior motives.

If you can get away with it once, well, just keep doing it. That seems to be Christy Clark’s pattern as she enters her second term as B.C.’s premier. After all she managed to get re-elected after only having the B.C.

What can possibly be said about cancer that hasn't been said before? That it steals lives? That it makes no distinction between young and old, male and female? That it kills more Canadians each year than any other disease? We've heard all those thing

Dear Editor: One side says marijuana is much less harmful than tobacco and/or alcohol, while the other side says that such vague general claims are untrue - that cannabis is not at all so innocuous. Plus, with a possible referendum in B.C.

I love New Westminster. I also love New West. To many readers this may seem like I am repeating myself, but to those in the know these are critical code words.

Dear Editor: I am a resident who lives on Fader Street. On Saturday, we paid to blockade the street for our block party.

Dear Editor: The decision by TransLink to close the 154 bus route is wrong, in my opinion. There are three seniors' residences on this route - Ross Tower, Rotary Tower and Dunwood Place. I lived in Rotary Tower for 18 years.

Last week's column about how a wage hike for CUPE will likely be funded appeared to touch a nerve with a number of school trustees and teachers, who descended upon me on social media (notably Twitter) to say how unfair the whole situation is.

More than two-thirds of B.C. residents believe that road safety in school zones is worse when the kids are back in class. Seventy-eight per cent of British Columbians have seen someone speeding in a school zone.

More than two-thirds of B.C. residents believe that road safety in school zones is worse when the kids are back in class. Seventy-eight per cent of British Columbians have seen someone speeding in a school zone.