Opinion

The Editor, As important as dental health is to our overall health, dental care is not covered by BC Health Insurance.

The Editor, Re: “What’s the point of voting?” Letters , Nov. 28. In last Friday’s paper, a letter writer asked, “What’s the point of voting?” He answered his own question with “there is no point as politicians do not respond to voters.

The Editor, Re: “What’s the point of voting?” Letters , Nov. 28. I feel the writer’s pain in asking “why have elections?” but I disagree with his feeling of hopelessness.

The Editor, I was waiting for the bus at one of the stops at Brighouse Station, when out of the corner of my eye, I saw the wind toss newspapers around on the side walk.

The Editor, There’s an old saying: “If you don’t vote, you don’t get to complain.” The reality is that it doesn’t really matter either way because the political system offers no way for citizens to do anything else but vote.

The municipal election results in three key areas should cause alarm bells to ring in NDP circles, and celebration fireworks to go off in Green Party ones and perhaps among B.C. Liberals as well.

A few years ago, the province put together a task force on reforming rules for local elections. The group received public comment and made recommendations. Unfortunately, the most important of those — spending and contribution limits ­— were shelved.

The Editor, We would like to thank the citizens of Richmond for their support in the civic election and congratulate all winning candidates and those candidates who put their names forward.

The Editor, I’d like to congratulate all of the candidates for council and trustee who submitted their names to run for public office. Democracy is strengthened when more people, of varying backgrounds and viewpoints, run for office.

If you’re reading this on dead trees, there’s a good chance you were born sometime between 1930 and 1980.