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Don't let promises fool you
Dear Editor: With less than a week left in the provincial campaign, we need to start considering the stakes of this election. With the governing party apparently surging in the polls, let's look at some of the crowning achievements of the B.C. Liberals.
City council does it again
Another municipal budget has come to order, and once again the city has balanced the budget in the face of increasing costs being downloaded from the provincial and federal governments.
Harper government slammed - again
In seven years, the Harper government has made a number of changes to our country, many of which have not been for the best. We've seen a government that actively attacks science or anything else that impedes their ideological freight train of legislation. Democratic values are routinely eliminated or curtailed under this government. This government remains the only political party that has pleaded guilty to an offence in court in the history of Canada.
Letter writers are 'way off base'
A couple of your contributors are way off base in their opinions. Let's look at the opinion of Trevor Ritchie, who suggested the City of Burnaby fund child care but admits that child care is a provincial responsibility. Can you imagine the joy the Liberals would feel at the thought of downloading yet another of their responsibilities onto the municipalities, so they can then dream up even more bizarre ways to waste taxpayers' money? Bottom line is that child care is a provincial responsibility, they collect taxes to pay for it, so insist they properly fund it.
Child care should be a priority
I'm disappointed to see Burnaby city council is refusing to fund the child-care facility at the new development at the Value Village site in Edmonds.
Learn English before Mandarin
Re: Smart to teach Mandarin, Letters to the Editor, Burnaby NOW, Feb. 22.
Smart to teach Mandarin
This past Tuesday I had the opportunity to attend the Burnaby Board of Education meeting.
Let's tackle skills shortage
With four months remaining until the next provincial election, it's time to address one of the critical concerns that should alarm every British Columbian; the alarming shortage of skilled labour being trained within the province.
Liberal plan needs propping
I'm beginning to understand why the B.C. Jobs Plan needs $15 million worth of advertising to prop it up.
Paying for propaganda
It's enough to make you wonder why we pay taxes. Recently, the B.C. Liberals spent $15 million of taxpayer money to promote themselves and their economic action plan, which according to recent statistics has not succeeded in producing jobs at anywhere near the rate promised.
Propaganda costly for taxpayers
It's enough to make you wonder why we pay taxes. Recently, the B.C. Liberals spent $15 million of taxpayer money to promote themselves and their economic action plan, which according to recent statistics has not succeeded in producing jobs at anywhere near the rate promised.
Housing plan has good start
The recent idea by the George Derby Centre Care facility to provide housing on the land it owns is a wonderful idea, and something that should be considered right away.
Don't slash, build
The next election is inevitably going to be a discussion of what to do with what little money is left to the provincial government. We're still in a deficit as far as tax receipts and government revenue is concerned, and the almighty business gods are demanding a sacrificial balanced budget by the incoming B.C. government to demonstrate our slavish devotion to the needs of the corporate confidence fairy, which will allow businesses to start hiring again.
Time for a big change
It's time for a change in the politics of British Columbia. For 12 years now, we've heard nothing but the vast right wing noise machine telling us of the evils of the NDP, and that we must elect Liberals to prevent the destruction of civilization itself. That dog thankfully does not hunt anymore, crucified as the Liberals are on their decade of economic mismanagement and unprecedented human suffering created through the utter lack of empathy of Campbell, Clark and their caucus.
Affordable housing needed
It's a common refrain in Canada's urban centres that there's a chronic homelessness problem that isn't being addressed, with many of the main concerns being the lack of coordination between federal, provincial and municipal governments to try and create a unified program to address homelessness.
No more funding 'games'
Like many people in the Metro Vancouver region, I often take transit to get to my important destinations.
Time for change in B.C
It's time for a change in the politics of British Columbia. For 12 years now, we've heard nothing but the vast right-wing noise machine telling us of the evils of the NDP, and that we must elect Liberals to prevent the destruction of civilization itself. That dog, thankfully, does not hunt anymore, crucified as the Liberals are on their decade of economic mismanagement and unprecedented human suffering created through the utter lack of empathy of Gordon Campbell, Christy Clark and their caucus.
Speak up for environment
Politics, they say, is the science of the possible triumphing over the power of ideology and optimism. When one looks at the policy the B.C. NDP has created in regards to fracking, one has to assume that this was what the saying meant.
