Opinion

Last week's byelections showed people are abandoning the B.C. Liberal Party in droves but aren't flocking en masse to the B.C. Conservatives.

There is a rather natural logic to why the federal government should have clear and non-political rules regarding Canada's environment. For the most part, Canadians don't want to see freshwater resources either polluted or squandered.

Dear Editor: Re: Trustee wants more info available sooner, The Record, April 11.

When Canada's auditor general ripped into Ottawa's bungled effort to replace our aging fighter jets recently, he placed the blame for the debacle at the feet of deceiving bureaucrats.

Dear Editor: The on-ice officials refereeing the letters arena at this paper need to do a better job policing head-shots and attempts to injure. Responding to leftwinger Tony Eberts' recent "cheap shot," i.e.

There's an urban legend, spread by the internet and an old The West Wing episode, with a moral about simplicity versus complexity. Supposedly, in the 1960s NASA realized that they didn't have a pen that could write in zero gravity.

Dear Editor: Tony Eberts has written about "the government supposedly being in 'hock,'" Hector Bremner sneeringly notes, asserting that this claim is false (No, B.C. is not broke, Letters to the editor, The Record, April 6).

Dear Editor: When I read L. Luyten's letter, Trucks are a safety hazard, in the April 18 edition of The Record, I was quite upset and disturbed. I'm a professional truck driver and a citizen and taxpayer of the City of New Westminster.

Dear Editor: Here we go again. Another semi-trailer overturned or drove into the car ahead of him, frequently killing the driver. The semi-trailer driver gets out of his truck without so much as a scratch.

"Those who can, do. Those who can do more, volunteer." - author unknown This week is National Volunteer Week in Canada. It marks the 70th year of the establishment of National Volunteer Week, when the efforts of the 13.