Opinion

Dear Editor: Why should taxpayers have to pay more in taxes each year for a proposed child-care program? The taxpayers have to suffer for problems caused by fellow taxpayers with children who do not know how to budget their personal lives.

Dear Editor: I was a bit alarmed reading the request for electoral reform as put forward by IainMacanulty on June 9 (We need voting reform, Inbox, Burnaby NOW ).

The only certainty that exists in B.C. politics right now is that we know the date when the legislature is being recalled. But that’s about it. There is a Throne Speech planned for that first day, June 22.

Elections have two key components: the race and the mechanics – the legislative process and administration of the vote.

Our economy is built on commercial trade, and so it’s no surprise some people get caught in a spiral of debt. And when they do, they often suffer from anxiety and depression.

Dear Editor: The public agreement put forward by the B.C. NDP and the B.C. Green Party to govern B.C. has some excellent proposals.

Managing to find yet another new low, President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the 195-country Paris Agreement on greenhouse gas emissions last week. The U.S.

Dear Editor: An open letter to MP Terry Beech: You’re the MP for our area, so I thought I would let you know of my displeasure with your party on several fronts.

Dear Editor: Keith Baldrey, in his column May 24 (How Green will B.C.

I was kidding around with NDP leader John Horgan last week, pretending to have trouble saying the words “Premier Horgan” over and over again. He laughed and said he wasn’t used to hearing the title either.