Opinion

Dear Editor, I am extremely encouraged to see young people rallying to express their concerns about global warming. I agree that societies around the world have become producers of needless waste that is polluting the planet and this must change.

Last week I described the many Signature Tastings during this 11-day Cornucopia Festival. But there are also gourmet wine lunches and dinners, and tasty seminars to enjoy: Thursday, Nov. 7: Araxi Restaurant’s Intimate Wine Dinner with Time Winery.

I was 16 when my mom and I went down into a church basement to join a session of Scottish country dancing. Admittedly, it’s a nerdy thing to do as a teenager, but I liked dance and I particularly liked the woman who was running the show.

Some folks think retirement is all about the money. For others, it’s about leisure. And travel. And giving back to the community. In reality, it’s all those things. And way more. Mostly, it’s about perspective and attitude.

In the foggy, gaslit streets of London, 1885, William Pinkerton of the famous Pinkerton Detective Agency has arrived from Chicago.

Dear Editor, Election 2019, what does it mean? In 2015, Justin Trudeau vowed to make our politics less adversarial, more co-operative through electoral reform. Parliament would speak for all Canadians, was the promise.

Dear Editor, Every time we have an election — be it federal, provincial or civic — someone gets upset about the campaign signs. Either they’re put up where they’re not wanted or not allowed, they vanish or even get defaced.

Dear Editor, I voted (Monday), but it wasn’t easy, and it was almost in spite of Elections Canada. I am a senior and disabled, being full-time in a wheel chair.

In a corner lay two small objects. They were oblong in shape and pale in colour, reminding me of miniature mummies. Looking at them closely I saw that they were earwigs, wrapped in spiders’ silk.

Dear Editor, Re: “ Richmond candidate answers flag-flying question ,” Letters, Oct 19. On Oct.