Opinion

DEAR EDITOR: RE: How will council be remembered?, Letter to the Editor, The Record, Sept. 2.

B.C.'s fixed-election-date law has always been a gimmick. The law sets a date, but also allows a premier to call an election whenever he or she feels the time is right.

The school year is beginning with more uncertainty and tension than in recent years, and the teachers and the government are both to blame for that.

Dear Editor: There is no substantial reason for the noise dispute between sleep-deprived Quayside residents and the railroads to rumble, toot and screech in the same old way. As I wrote in a letter some months ago, the Southern Railway of B.C.

These days, we tend to take the eight hour work day for granted.

Sometimes, when I look down at you while you're sleeping, your faces so peaceful, your bodies curved up in that oh-so familiar slumbering pose (how funny that you both sleep the same way - bum in the air, hands warm and cozy tucked under your tummies

Dear Editor: An address to city council meeting of Aug. 29.

Dear Editor: Allowing the White Rock Hells Angels to participate in the 12th Street Festival was not a mere "oversight," as John Ashdown downplayed in a letter to the editor (Brow-beating unnecessary, Letters to the Editor, The Record, Aug. 24).

Dear Editor: We have to be out of our minds in this province! Granted, the Liberals did a very poor job bringing the HST about. But they were even less responsible taking it to the vote.

Dear Editor: I'm a huge supporter of our senior Salmonbellies, and I'm at a loss for words as to what happened this year.