Opinion

A year in images

Dear Editor: Over the past year, smart meters have been a major topic of discussion in B.C. as B.C. Hydro set about modernizing the province's electrical grid and updating their aging infrastructure.

I want you to use your imagination. I want you to imagine a world in which every child wakes up on Christmas morning to find a nice gift under the tree.

Dear Editor: Re Stoners need a better argument, In My Opinion, The Record, Dec. 9 What a breathtakingly appalling column. 1. It is not only "stoners" who oppose the prohibition of marijuana. I do. The Senate does. Three former mayors of Vancouver do.

There is something almost addictive about reading other people's favourite Christmas memories. Perhaps it's being comforted by the discovery that what we value is valued by other members of our community.

Dear Editor: I just finished reading your Dec. 14 Our View entitled "Finger-pointing won't help Attawapiskat.

Dear Editor: We four are writing to correct the mistake that your reporter made in the first paragraph of your Dec. 16 front-page story. The circus will ring in the New Year at the Columbia Theatre, Mr.

Dear Editor: Re: Christmas hasn't vanished, The Record, Letters to the editor, by Jim Cowan Mr. Cowan: In response to your opinion of my letter to the editor, I fear you have missed the point.

The spirit of seasonal goodwill has not been in evidence in our national House of Commons lately as debates degenerated into some distinctly unparliamentary comments.

The deal recently hammered out between school support unions and their employer potentially contains both good and bad news for the one union that never seems to get a deal - the B.C. Teachers' Federation.