Opinion

I first encountered Caitlin Doughty while watching Ted Talks. Her talk, a burial practice that nourishes the planet, explores different ideas for burial that don’t pollute the environment with toxic, cancer-causing formaldehyde.

Dear Editor, Cutting through the miasma of political drivel, men-of-straw arguments and self-serving anti-tunnel tripe, one salient fact remains: there has been no capacity increase in crossing the north arm of the Fraser River since 1975.

Dear Editor, During my years at Richmond high, I had the opportunity to be coached by Coach Bill McKittrick when he coached the field lacrosse team in 1974.

Dear Editor, Re: “ Why one rule for the city, another for us? ” Letters , Nov. 7. Like many residents, I share the frustrations expressed in a letter to the editor in the Nov. 7 issue regarding the property damage caused by chafer beetles.

2019 has been a pivotal year for Summerhill Pyramid Winery in Kelowna. After three decades under Summerhill’s founder, Stephen Cipes, his son, Ezra Cipes has taken the helm as CEO.

I know enough ink has been spilled on the now-infamous “you people” comment by hockey icon Don Cherry — but I can’t resist.

It’s taken me three years, but I’ve finished the math and I’m ready to release my results to you -- the public of Richmond.

Annie Lemon of Woodwards Landing, at the south end of No. 5 Road, (today a Girl Guide camp) with her husband George, the local wharfinger. This couple offered up two of their sons to the Great War.

Ralph Barr Carter was a strapping 6-foot tall, fair-haired and blue-eyed Methodist when he enlisted as a private soldier with the Canadian Expeditionary Force on March 22, 1915.

Dear Editor, I live in a complex in West Richmond, blessed with a huge mount of greenspace. But, like so many residential and strata properties in Richmond, it is now under attack from the damages of the chafer beetle.