Opinion

Climate change forced its way onto the political agenda in 2012, as super-storm Sandy ripped through the northeast United States just days before the election.

Dear Editor: The NDP is a united party. An NDP membership is a duel membership, which makes you a member of both the provincial and federal parties. Both Manitoba and Nova Scotia have NDP provincial governments.

Dear Editor: Re: Trustee's trip expense wasteful, Letters, The Record, Jan. 16. I read with great interest the excellent, truthful letter by Jason Hua and reread the article, Parent criticizes school trustee's expenses from Jan. 9.

Dear Editor: Re: Parent criticizes school trustee's expenses, The Record, Jan. 9. I totally agree with Patrick O'Connor's criticism of Mr. Michael Ewen's expense. While the New West school district had a $2.

With the election campaign now just a little more than 12 weeks away, every day becomes precious to both major parties as they march towards the showdown. And because the B.C.

Dear Editor: I think it was former premier Mike Harcourt who once said that the NDP are "guests in power" in B.C.

Dear Editor: Re: Loss of auditor general is a bad move, The Record, Editorial, Jan. 11. This editorial was right on the money. When they write the history of Christy Clark's stint as premier, it's going to be a tale of woe.

Each year around this time, the always controversial topic of standardized testing rears its head in B.C. That's because January brings with it the annual Foundation Skills Assessment tests for students in Grades 4 and 7 in this province.

Dear Editor: The municipalities on the Lower Mainland would agree that Vancouver and Abbotsford's generous police-union contract has made it financially impossible to make policing sustainable, as well as to seriously consider their fiscal structure

If the term "fiscal cliff" became part of the daily lexicon over the holidays, perhaps a new term should come into vogue in B.C. before the May election. Call it the "fiscal tsunami" and it could hit B.C.'s shores sooner than most think.