Opinion

It's official. After hitting send to more than 2,680 news releases this year, the B.C. government's Communications and Public Engagement Office is now scraping the bottom of the barrel for an excuse – any excuse – to trumpet the government's prowess.

Dear Editor Re: Bus cutbacks hurt seniors in the Heights, Letters to the editor, Burnaby NOW , Dec. 16.

There are two holidays during the year that always make us deeply grateful for what we have. Thanksgiving is the obvious one. The other one is Christmas.

Dear Editor Well, I see that Transit will be the Grinch who steals Christmas. They have signs up along Hastings (at Holdom, for example) that the 135 bus into town will be discontinued on Dec 19. A new bus 95 will zoom by most Hastings street stops.

Economists and pundits have thoroughly panned Premier Christy Clark’s announcement last week that the provincial government is going to provide an interest-free (for five years) housing downpayment loan to first-time homebuyers in 2017.

Dear Editor: Due to higher property and other taxes and with special gratitude to Derek Corrigan, Christy Clark and Justin Trudeau, I have the privilege to enjoy beautiful winter day buried in the snow, happy that we went to the food store yesterday.

Dear Editor Re: Trending comments, Dec. 16.

With the government's financial books swimming with cash, it's not surprising our political parties are racing to outdo each other when it comes to whopping spending plans.

Dear Editor With the federal government’s approval of the Kinder Morgan pipeline, it has never been more important to have a premier and a government that will stand up for B.C. and defend our coast.

We, the undersigned student societies representing over 220,000 students from across British Columbia, are deeply disappointed in the federal government’s decision to approve the Kinder Morgan pipeline.