Opinion

Dear Editor: Re: Developers taking over city, Letters to the editor, Burnaby NOW, Aug. 31 I completely understand Mr. Week's frustration with city hall's position with respect to density bonusing in Burnaby.

Monday, Aug. 20. I came home from work to find a good-sized wolf spider scuttling across the living room floor. He must have been an inch and a half across. I swear, these hairylegged monsters are getting bigger every year.

Dear Editor: Re: Watch your speed, Burnaby NOW, Sept. 5. The article by Janaya Fuller-Evans does not address why people are avoiding Hastings Street and cutting through the residential street of North Burnaby to get to their destination.

Dear Editor: This council continues to amaze me in the way they waste our hard-earned tax dollars on junkets to other countries.

Dear Editor: Re: Looking back on a lost way of life in B.C., Burnaby NOW, Aug. 24. I always love to learn more about the history of this gorgeous part of the planet. Jennifer Moreau did a fine job accomplishing just that in her piece.

The Canadian Medical Association's recent call for better drug coverage for low-income households is one Canada should consider seriously, as much for economic reasons as for humanitarian ones.

For most folks it's the last long weekend of the summer - a time to load up the barbecue, take a nap in the hammock and, most of all, forget about work. But Labour Day, is, after all, all about work.

Last week I fired a gun for the first time. The occasion was the bachelor party for an old friend of mine. (And let me pause briefly here to say the wedding was wonderful, and the bride and groom have a very happy future ahead.

Dear Editor: Re: MPs take issue with commissioner's comments, Burnaby NOW, Aug. 22.

Re: More highrises for Metrotown, Burnaby NOW, Aug. 15 The highrises built in Metrotown in the 1990s were in the 20-to 30-storey range. At street level, there were pleasant lawns, shrubs and flower gardens.