Opinion

There's nothing quite like a Fraser Institute report on anything parenting related to get folks in B.C. huffing in indignation or chuckling in bemusement.

Unions were formed during the very hardest of times; child labour, no time off, no protection from deadly job hazards, pay that couldn't keep one person fed - let alone a whole family.

Dear Editor: Re: Neighbourhoods at risk, Letters to the Editor, The Record, Aug. 23.

Dear Editor: Re: Memories of Woodward's, The Record, Aug. 23. I read with interest your story in the Aug. 23 edition of your newspaper regarding memories of Woodward's stores. I too went to Woodward's to shop when I lived in Calgary.

Having seen the city booth at The Quayside Festival and Sale, and reviewing the questionnaire on the city page website, it appears that not only is the city ignoring taxpayers call to allow a proposed water taxi service between Queensborough and Quay

Dear Editor: Reading The Record's series, Our Neighbourhood, has been a particular source of personal pleasure for me.

Dear Editor: Well folks, it is a done deal and who can tell me that they knew this multi-million dollar Hydro "deal" was even in the works? Here is my message to every single politician, be they local, provincial or federal - enough of this crap! Sho

Everyone knows education is expensive, but an uneducated population is not a productive one.

When then-Premier Mike Harcourt's government was engulfed in scandal and controversy in the mid-1990s, speculation began to build on whether he could hang on as leader.

Here's a question that our provincial government ought to be able to answer but can't: How much water is the world's biggest bottled water seller withdrawing from wells in British Columbia? The province doesn't know because it isn't asking.