Opinion

With the legislature not in session this past week, Premier Christy Clark paid a visit to the political epicentre of her government. No, not her hometown of Vancouver. But Kelowna, B.C.'s "City of Premiers.

Dear Editor: Re: District must make $3.1 million in cuts, Burnaby NOW, April 11. Ms. Moreau fails to note that these expected cuts are likely just a first round exercise.

It seems to me that the youth of today are under constant contemptuous and often unfair criticism. We are lazier and more unmotivated than a sloth. We are destroying the fundamental groundwork of the economy and of human culture.

For the past 10 years, the drug Tamiflu has been the last line of defence against flu complications. During the menagerie of flu outbreaks (swine, bird) and SARS, the Canadian government spent $77 million on Tamiflu.

After the Jan. 11 train derailment and coal spill, local streamkeepers posed the question: Will there be Fisheries Act charges? I’ve been trying since then to get a reply, and the short answer is we still don’t know.

Dear Editor: Burnaby students benefit from something that no other district in B.C. can boast: a music program.

Dear Editor: I'm a Port Moody resident and parent, and a Burnaby teacher. I recently attended the budget meeting for the Burnaby school board, and it left me disheartened at best.

Perhaps reality TV shows and Kevin O'Leary weren't the Canadian cultural touchstones and content cash cows the CBC hoped they would be.

Dear Editor: Easter is almost here, conjuring up images of traditional coloured Easter eggs. But before you pick up your eggs from the grocery store, please consider the hens that produced them.

Re: Willingdon should have been ours - mayor, Burnaby NOW, April 4. If Mayor Derek Corrigan had in fact had a legal, "right of first refusal" or any other legal right the courts, one would assume, would permit its exercise.