Opinion

Dear Editor, I am old enough to remember a time when at least 75 per cent or more of the houses in our neighbourhood put-up Christmas lights and neighbours would invite each other to parties and sometimes exchange gifts.

F aye Kellerman’s new mystery novel, The Theory of Death , brings to mind the famous quote by Sir Walter Scott: “Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!” In the small upstate New York town of Greenbury, former LAPD lieutena

Part of what’s wrong in the world is a profound misunderstanding of love. We are easily caught up with its counterfeits: craving, lust, possession and infatuation. To experience genuine love is to awaken; to express this love is to be fully alive.

Open letter to mayor and council, As a longtime resident of Richmond, I would like you to investigate the foul and rotten odours that are common in our city . They can be smelled near our home, No.

Dear Editor, Re: “Language loophole is ludicrous,” Letters , Dec. 4 I agree with Mr. Johnson’s opinion that all registered driving schools must be required to instruct in English or French.

Flooding the Peace River Valley makes little to no sense

Dear Editor, Re: Richmond Police Department: Local control versus added costs Policing in Richmond deserves/requires consideration of the third option, — regional policing.

There's really no reason people should get killed traversing a crosswalk; but who's to blame?

W hen you think about the work of your family physician, you probably envision the one-on-one care he or she gives to each individual patient. It may be in a clinic, hospital or – more rarely – home visit.

Connections. That’s what good health is all about, according to our new medical health officer. That’s not to say working out doesn’t matter, or that state-of-the-art diagnostic imaging technology doesn’t lengthen our lives.