Opinion

Skiers and snowboarders who head out of bounds every winter put themselves - and everyone else - at grave risk

New Year's Eve is a horrible guest. It slouches in a week after Christmas - which is much more fun, what with the wrapped presents and the eggnog - and tries to get us all to drink and stay up late.

Dear Editor: After leaving Abbotsford decades ago, I again visited my sick friend in Abbotsford General Hospital last weekend. I was delighted to see their new hospital, and wished we could have the same in Burnaby.

Dear Editor: There is much merit in the idea of merging the five municipal police forces and the RCMP detachments in Metro Vancouver.

It's hard to talk of holiday joy when the world of late has been filled with so much frightening news: a mass shooting in Connecticut, ongoing conflicts in Syria, the economic woes of most of the globe, to name but a few.

The recent idea by the George Derby Centre Care facility to provide housing on the land it owns is a wonderful idea, and something that should be considered right away.

Dear Editor: Your busy readers, rushing around between jobs, family, holiday events, and shopping up to our socio-corporate expectations, probably won't have time to read this. Too bad. Since Oct.

I just don't like winter.

If you are reading this, chances are the first Mayan calendar prediction for the end of the world was wrong. Now, we are still faced with the backup date of Dec. 25, but we suspect that on Dec.

Dear Editor: I was so glad to read Marjorie Griffin Cohen's op-ed piece, Women bear the brunt of poor policy, in Monday's Vancouver Sun.