Opinion

Dear Editor: As the picket signs come down and kids are welcomed back to school, B.C. teachers can hold their heads very high. Money-wise, teachers' gains are modest.

Dear Editor: Do our anti-pipeline supporters realize, that, if successful, their actions assist global terrorism? The world is not going to stop using oil.

Dear Editor: Re: Judge rules against city in mountain battle, Burnaby NOW, Sept. 19. So, after all this expense of, what?, thousands, tens of thousands of dollars, for lawyers, etc.

Will The Great Teachers War of 2014 be followed by The Great Nurses War of 2015? There is a distinct possibility that could indeed be the case, and if so, the B.C. government may find itself in a tougher fight with the B.C.

The secretary-general of the United Nations was one of an estimated 300,000 people who marched in New York Sunday during the People's Climate March.

In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, the province's teachers and the government announced the two sides had reached a tentative deal that would end the three-month-old teachers' strike. Both sides immediately put their own spin on the agreement.

Last spring I arrived for a jog at Squint Lake Park, by the golf course at the foot of Burnaby Mountain. I found a protest going on, the primary intent of which was to sing protest songs.

Dear Editor: You reported (Burnaby NOW, Aug. 22) on the National Energy Board's correspondence with Kinder Morgan about access to Burnaby Mountain for Kinder Morgan to do testing.

Dear Editor: Regarding the Kinder Morgan pipeline, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers' spokesperson (Letters, Aug. 15) claims that Canada's oil and gas industry is not subsidized.

Dear Editor: In 2010, tar sands tailing ponds covered an area of more than 175 square kilometers (67 square miles). At the current rate of expansion, it has been estimated that this will grow to 250 square kilometres (96.5 square miles) by 2020.