Opinion

Dedicated staff and volunteers at Burnaby Hospital have served our community for decades. Unfortunately, over time the hospital has been neglected and is now in desperate physical condition. Conditions for patients are equally desperate.

Dear Editor: It will be three years since the new garbage pickup has been in service on Nov. 23, 2009; this will be roughly 150 weeks, less the official holidays.

Politics in the B.C. legislature has become toxic. That has been perhaps Christy Clark's most astute observation since becoming premier at her party's behest a year and a half ago.

Dear Editor: The fact that people discuss their ability to pay taxes, property or any other, is a sign of great concern. Taxes are set by the strength of an economy in the free market society.

Dear Editor: With regret and sadness, after all these years, Save-On-Foods at Station Square at McKay Avenue, is closing on Dec. 29 owing to extensive construction.

The first official B.C. Family Day statutory holiday is on Feb. 11, 2013. Chances are most of us will be putting our feet up watching TV, going shopping, or taking off to the ski slopes for a fun-filled break.

Dear Editor: George Derby Centre is a community based complex care facility for 300 residents, most of whom are veterans of the Armed Forces.

Jane Sterk's column (A trojan horse for Canada?, In My Opinion, Burnaby NOW, Nov. 9) casts a critical spotlight on the current proposed investment treaty between Canada and China.

One has to feel for Premier Christy Clark, no matter what one's political affiliations may be. In one week she was faced with a former Liberal MLA, John van Dongen, yet again, demanding an investigation into the 2003 sale of B.C.

Dear Editor: Re: Families worried about care changes, Burnaby NOW, Nov. 14. I was moved to tears when I saw what you are doing. This is cruel and unacceptable. People are more important than the bottom line.