Opinion

Last Friday we decided to make our front page for this Friday a feature on LGBTQ rights. The issue was timely with the province amending the Human Rights Code to include discrimination of transgender people.

If you think retirement is all fun and games, let me assure you it’s not. Especially if you have an older parent whose health is failing.

Dear Editor, Re; ‘Ethos of acceptance’ still needed, News , July 22.

Dear Editor, I have had to bite my tongue for four years during my almost daily walk through the Imperial Landing site from our house by Britannia Shipyards.

Dear Editor, Before we turn ourselves hysterical, let’s look at the numbers. Of 1,935 births last year, 305 or 15 per cent were of non-resident mothers.

Dear Editor, After seeing 26 years of change, it boggles the mind what another five to 10 years will do to the downtown Richmond skyline.

Open letter to a driver, Driving north on No. 3 Road just south of Cambie Road yesterday, you came upon a sick or injured seagull in your lane. It was struggling desperately in a sea of traffic.

Speaking last month about supporting a house-flipping tax, Gregor Robertson, mayor of Vancouver, said: “First and foremost, housing needs to be for homes, not just treated as a commodity.

Dear Editor, I have yet to receive a response from staff about my suggestion that a tree canopy study be done for Richmond, showing the changes over the last five to 10 years in particular.

Dear Editor, I live on a property adjoining a farm on Finn Road that was in the news three years ago for dumping several thousand tons of demolition materials right through the middle of this very productive prime farm land.