Opinion

Dear Editor: Re: Does farmers' market need to move?, Burnaby NOW, Sept. 28.

We are rapidly approaching the March 31, 2012 expiration of British Columbia's 20-year contract with the RCMP. Did anyone have this date circled in red in their daytimers, we wonder? After all, the date hasn't changed in, well, 20 years.

Dear Editor: Re: Priorities all wrong in B.C., Letters to the editor, Burnaby NOW, Aug. 3. I completely agree with Garth Evans that the $550 million the B.C. Liberals spent on replacing the B.C. Place Stadium roof is a huge waste of public resources.

Dear Editor: The lack of provincial government funding for groups to participate in the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry is a direct threat to a successful outcome of that proceeding.

Dear Editor: Since last March, there was a flurry of articles nd comments in your paper about the attempts y a local Grade 12 student at Burnaby South econdary, Elias Ishak, to publish an article in he school's newspaper about the situation in the id

If this paper had been given a vote at the TransLink mayors' council, we likely would have followed the lead of the majority - holding our nose and voting yes.

Dear Editor: With apologies to Sir Winston Churchill. Regarding the road crew working at Kingsway in the Patterson and Grange area: Never in the history of road building have so many done so little for so long. Don MacKay, Burnaby

With Thanksgiving approaching, teacher Derek Cockram asked his Grade 4/5 students at 12th Avenue Elementary School to write about what they felt thankful for.

The same person who advised Christy Clark to give Harry Bloy a major portfolio in her first cabinet must be the same person who told her that calling for TV coverage of court proceedings against drunken vandals and hooligans would be a good thing.

Dear Editor: Re: Dow Avenue slum should not be replaced by highrise, resident says, Burnaby NOW online.