Opinion

Dear Editor: No Christmas season is complete without innumerable references to Charles Dickens's famous novel A Christmas Carol.

Dear Editor: Re: Festival cancellation unnecessary, Letters to the editor, The Record, Dec. 14. Roland van Kaauwen had my sympathetic attention when he made the case for Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet.

Dear Editor: With the ongoing rail noise court case, I present this as another issue to consider. Last night was another all too often occurrence along the Quay. About 1: 30 a.m.

Try as I might, I just can't wrap my brain around it. Every year, I'm left scratching my head over this vague "they're destroying Christmas" notion that starts to float around.

If you haven't been taking notes, it's hard to recall the sheer number of black eyes the RCMP has gotten over the past year or two - or even the past couple of weeks.

Dear Editor: Recently I heard that the Sinterklaas festivities, which are an annual event at the Westminster Quay in New Westminster, have been cancelled due to complaints by the African-Canadian community here in the Lower Mainland.

It's been a month and a half since the leaders of the Attawapiskat reserve in northern Ontario declared a state of emergency.

The confidence and unity that has been building in the NDP was on full public display at the party's convention this past weekend, and the gathering served as a coming-out party of sorts for leader Adrian Dix.

Dear Editor: I would like to say a huge "thank you" to the fire department here in New Westminster. On the morning of Dec. 10 at 7 a.m., they attended a fire in the laundry room of the Sapperton apartment where we live.

Dear Editor: On Oct. 29, the provincial Minister of Labour announced an increase in the general minimum wage on Nov. 1 to $9.