Opinion

Dear Editor: Re: Mayor disputes driving ticket, Burnaby NOW, June 25. I think it is pathetic that Mayor Derek Corrigan is taking the blustery, attack mode in his response to the ticket he received for distracted driving.

Dear Editor: I really must say thank you to the three Good Samaritans that worked together to help me on the morning of June 2 after I tripped and fell alongside Willingdon Avenue, just north of Midlawn Drive.

Dear Editor: The government keeps insisting that the teachers' demands are "unaffordable." Actually, the government has been spending $1,000 less per student than the national average.

Dear Editor: Re: Mayor must learn to cooperate with others, Letters to the editor, June 20. I differ in Mr. Evans' opinion because I thought Mayor Corrigan's reasons for voting against the plan reflected some critical thinking on his part.

Premier Christy Clark and the B.C. Liberals defend their "no new money" tactic when negotiating with government employees as their "means" to the balanced budget "end.

Here's a press release that just came in from SFU for those of you following pipeline or climate change issues.

After more than a year of scandal and outrage over abuses of the Temporary Foreign Workers Program, the Tories have changed the rules to better protect Canadians and the foreign workers themselves.

Dear Editor: I need to be enlightened, and perhaps some of your readers can do that for me.

Dear Editor: "Education for the marketplace" is the slogan by which public education is being attacked and dismantled by corporate powers, but education is not the art of training and subjugating people to serve the profit of others.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper may not realize it, but his government's decision to conditionally approve the Northern Gateway pipeline may be a huge gift to the very folks who are leading the charge against the pipeline ever being built.