Opinion

I grew bored with Sunday night's Oscar presentations - with its interminable, longwinded, and pretentiously disconnected speechifying punctuated by over-hyped, overproduced, and under-talented betweenaward acts - several years ago.

Richmond - The Editor, Re: "Ethnics trumps ethics," Letters, March 5.While I agree with every comment in Ray Arnold's letter with regards to Alice Wong, I feel he was much too kind to her.

If you were in the mood to talk about Ukraine, liquefied natural gas plants or the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition, too bad. Luongo's been traded.

Richmond - The Editor, When MP Alice Wong engaged in her ill-considered, Asian-only press, shark-fin soup luncheon escapade, I became firmly convinced that she was much more concerned with convincing Richmond's Canadian-Chinese voters that they shoul

The B.C. version of "The NeverEnding Story" has resumed playing, and it's not clear that it'll ever actually stop. I'm referring, of course, to the pseudo-comic soap opera that stars the B.C. Teachers Federation and the B.C. Liberal government.

The work by diplomats and world leaders to head off open war between Ukraine and Russia is admirable. But the relentless media focus on Ukraine highlights one of the ways in which the major media do not always give us a complete picture of the world.

Port Metro Vancouver - The Editor, Re: "Toxic silt eats into dredging fund," News, Feb. 19.A few points from the story require some clarification.On Dec. 17, 2012, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, the B.C.

Two of my favourite topics are: 1) Trying to predict the future and; 2) Making fun of anyone who thinks they can accurately predict the future. This is what happens when you're a science fiction nerd from childhood.

Oh, won't someone think of the children! That's all we're going to hear for the next few weeks, probably months, as the B.C. Teachers' Federation and the provincial government butt heads.

Richmond - The Editor, Re:"When the Games have gone?" News, Feb. 7.