Opinion

Dear Editor: Re: School district head retiring, Burnaby NOW, May 25. We have mixed emotions when leaders like Burnaby school district superintendent Claudio Morelli announce their plans to retire. On the one hand we're happy for them.

Dear Editor: Re: Snakehead hunters leave emptyhanded, Burnaby NOW, May 25. Two people have videotaped the snakehead fish(es) in the lower pond of Burnaby's Central Park. B.C.

Jim Flaherty opened his mouth last week, and a gusher of stupidity came out. If we could burn stupid like oil, we could run every car in Canada for a month on his latest remarks.

Dear Editor: I'm tired of hearing about the bonuses that are being given to executives at ICBC.

In most workplaces, a supervisor who hosts after-hours booze parties in his office, exposes himself to a subordinate and signs out company cars for sexual encounters would be fired. Immediately. Not in the RCMP.

Dear Editor: Re: Liberals HST 'joke' finally reaching its end, Our View, Burnaby NOW, May 18. You forgot to mention this very important information.

The poet Kahlil Gibran once wrote that "-when the black thread breaks, the weaver shall look into the whole cloth, and he shall examine the loom also.

Dear Editor: I was appalled after reading the self congratulatory comments from our local mutual admiration society, otherwise known as city hall.

Unfortunately, coroner's inquests by their very nature are usually proof that we have failed people. The inquest into the death of three Langley farmworkers in 2008 is one of the most tragic cases of hindsight we have seen in quite awhile.

Is there a housing bubble in the Lower Mainland? Housing zeppelin is more like it. Bubbles, after all, are soft and cute and harmless. Zeppelins, conversely, hurtle into the ground, spewing flaming wreckage in all directions.